Mayor De Blasio Pushing for 2016 Democratic Convention at Barclays

Photo credit: Richard Perry/The New York TimesAs FIPS reported last week, Mayor de Blasio has finally moved from Park Slope to Gracie Mansion, five months after taking office. But even though he loves all his children boroughs equally, some boroughs are more equal than others. On June 5^th, he made a proposal to the Democratic National Committee they hold their 2016 convention in NYC, but not Madison Square Garden! Oh, no, not in Bill de Blasio’s NY. His pitch? Park-Slope Adjacent Barclay’s Center, of course! Which is, honestly, a lot better than that shithole Madison Square Garden/Penn Station. I know, I worked atop the Garden for 7 years. Really, one of the worst buncha blocks in NYC. I mean, Phish fans and angry, desperate commuters? 

Ok, last time a National Convention was held here in NYC, there were some glitches – almost 2000 protestors something something unlawful mass arrests etc. etc.  18 million dollars in damages, yada yada yada – but that was in Manhattan, with a bunch of Republicans, and then-Mayor Bloomberg was (ostensibly) one of them. The previous time, it was Dems! And the city kind of went nuts as a guy from Hope, Arkansas, the Come Back Kid, was nominated in our town.

Pick us, Dems, pick us! Last time you came here, we delivered for ya. That guy wound up winning, remember?! But Brooklyn, as BDB knows, will be even better. Because Brooklyn is both hip and old-timey, cool and SO uncool. And, ya know, Jay-Z and Solange might get into it right in front of your delegates from Iowa, and really give them a story to bring home of Life in the Big City, which now translates to Life in Brooklyn.

VIA NY TIMES