New York City owes its revival over the last quarter-century to many things, but perhaps the least recognized is a change made in 1989 to the city’s governing charter that, by dissolving the powerful Board of Estimate, enormously strengthened the clout of the mayor’s office. That change helped New York, under Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, shed much of its reputation as an “ungovernable” city.
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