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About a month ago, I was in Portland, Oregon, ostensibly to cover the riots outside the ICE facility there. But what struck me even more was the utter lack of order in the harrowing streets of its downtown. Don't look now, but that same brand of disorder may be coming to New York City .

Four years ago, as democratic socialist Bill de Blasio was ending his disastrous eight years of disgraceful mismanagement of Gotham, the New York Post tasked me with doing a walkabout around midtown Manhattan to chronicle the destruction he wrought.

To be clear, New York City in 2021 was not as bad as Portland or San Francisco are now, but it was very, very bad.

Here is how I described it back then:

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