WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 2020Brooklyn for Bloomberg, you
say? I don’t think so...
Holly Baxter stumbles across an extremely rare streetful of posters
showing support for the billionaire’s Democratic bid
Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg during a debate on Monday (AP)
As I was walking around the neighbourhood in Brooklyn this weekend, I noticed something strange. It
wasn’t the fact that there’s a bar advertising “exotic beers of the world” illustrated with an image of a can of
Stella Artois – that one’s always there. It wasn’t the fact that more than one person was walking towards the
park with a dog strapped into a baby stroller – that much is de rigueur in New York City these days. It
wasn’t even the fact that the eye-wateringly expensive clothes store next to my favourite noodle place had
started a cereal café by the coat racks, where Froot Loops and Oreo-O’s were going for $15 a plastic cup.
No, it was something altogether more political than that (you may argue that the politics of repurposing
cheap cereal to sell in fancy containers to people trying on $5,000 jackets is actually fascinating, and I
would agree with you, but let’s stick with the issue at hand).