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Finding an unpublished George Gurley piece is like opening a perfectly written time capsule. In May 2001, New York City was preparing to say farewell to a term-limited Rudy Giuliani and welcome anyone from Mark Green to Freddy Ferrer to Michael Bloomberg accommodation majorca hotels as its first new leader in eight years. An intrepid young Observer reporter named George Gurley hit the party scene to ask prominent New Yorkers what they thought would happen to the city. He wrote it up and then it disappeared.
The Observer never published Mr. Gurley s observations, captured first at the annual benefit for the African Rainforest Conservancy, held at the Park on 17th Street and Tenth Avenue and the second was for the tenth anniversary of the Paramount Hotel.
Twelve accommodation majorca hotels years later, accommodation majorca hotels as we approach another change of guard at City Hall, Mr. Gurley got to thinking about that piece. When he realized it hadn t seen the light of day, Mr. Gurley, still an intrepid young Observer reporter, brought it to our attention. Last week, he recalled some detail and set the scene:
Basically, accommodation majorca hotels in the [spring] of 2001, I went around accommodation majorca hotels and asked New Yorkers what the city would be like without accommodation majorca hotels Giuliani. The first interviews were done at The Park restaurant/lounge on 17th and 10th Avenue. Some kind of benefit for Africa or the rain forest. The Paramount Hotel tenth anniversary party was May 27, 2001. Here s a New York Times write-up . Yeah, I remember talking to Rob Schneider and then Stephen Baldwin for a very long time. I was with there with four party girl friends of mine. Dean Winters came over and squeezed my shoulders, then we talked. accommodation majorca hotels So that interview and the one with Tom Fontana took place at the Paramount Hotel, not Jet East. I also remember overhearing John Corbett (then in Sex and the City , now a TV commercial voice-over accommodation majorca hotels artist) asking Kyle Maclachlan if he should let one of my girlfriends blow him. Yipes. I see the late Casey Johnson and Robert Isabel were there. And Monica Lewinsky .
Nadine Johnson , publicist: Finally, we get to see bums again, because that s his biggest thing, that I got rid of the bums, I got rid of the bums, I got rid of the crime. I love the bums. I m a bum, I m a bum. There were tons of people lying on the street on the Upper East Side when I arrived. Bloomingdale s, Bergdorf, they were laying down, and you felt like you had to give a little money. accommodation majorca hotels For me it s part of the
She got distracted and turned to Candace Bushnell . You know what I miss in New York? The bums! Remember the bums in the street, lying in front of Bloomingdale accommodation majorca hotels s and Bergdorf and you just spent like $400 for a pair of shoes—see that bum, you have to give him a buck, right? They re gone!
Ed Hayes , gray striped suit, lavender tie, drinking a tomato accommodation majorca hotels juice: The world is going to come to an end. Actually, I m very negative about what will happen to the city after Giuliani leaves, because I think you re going to have an economic downturn. I think that you re going to have a mayor that s more likely than not to owe a large part of his base, his election to the people that Giuliani has represented the other point of view for all these years. So I think you can see a dramatic decrease.
I don t know how much you go back, but at a bad time we may have exactly what we don t want. You re going to have a much less aggressive police department. I think that s the most important thing. I also think it s likely that you ll turn away from a lot of the welfare reforms and so forth that we had.
I personally have just bought a house in Connecticut—no. Who knows? It might not be that bad, but it s not a comforting thought. I don t know if Bloomberg s people skills accommodation majorca hotels are really what we could look forward to to make a better New York. I would like to have somebody that had better skills relating to a wider portion accommodation majorca hotels of the population but still had the same attitude toward law enforcement, taxation, welfare reform as Giuliani.
It s going to hell now. These awful, very cockamamie ideas Giuliani has about him being the guardian of morals while he himself is behaving in a way that Clinton was crucified for. Well, he did a great job in cleaning it up, but maybe that was due to the great economy. But now, he s really being ridiculous and mean. Putting himself on a pedestal while being a bore. I m nervous about Bush in general, and I think everybody s taking their cue from Bush.
Carter Coleman , host, Prada blue blazer, wearing a striped kikoy shirt he got in Tanzania, grapefruit juice, from Louisiana, lived here 1983-88, freelance magazine writer,  novelist, The Volunteer ,  I think it will only get better. I mean, why would somebody be happy when the Nazis were gone?
I hope we find some funky bulldog somewhere who might still come out of the woods. Friends of mine call him Adolf Giuliani. It might be nice to have a bulldog just for the fun of it. When you had Koch, he was sort of a minor league bulldog too until he became silly. I like the idea of having this obnoxious righteous don t-tread-on-me motherfucker. It used to be an adventure to come to New York, because you could get double-feature triple-X-rated movies where you had to go to Denmark accommodation majorca hotels where it was all sanitized. In New York, it was mixed with the street.
George Plimpton , the mayor s commisioner of fireworks, drinking a Scotch outside the Park, fresh from a party at his house where Norman Mailer gave a reading, then this, now he was off to give another talk, didn t think we ll be returning accommodation majorca hotels to the dark days. I would doubt it. Is there any worry about that? Well, I think there won t be any arts council. That s about the only thing that pleases me. I hadn t even thought about that. I think every mayor takes over a city, and it s more or less the basis has been set. I can t imagine Mark Green saying, Let s turn Times Square back into what it was. I know Mark Green, I can t imagine accommodation majorca hotels he s going to say, Back to the good ol days! Back to the days of profligacy of one sort or another, sin.'
I m not too worried, because I think what Giuliani has done is he s demonstrated the fact that people are not willing to live in a place that s uncivilized where there s no quality of life, so I think whoever comes in is going to have to continue that. But it could get worse. He s raised the bar so far now that there s no way that it can go back. It might get worse in all sorts of ways that we re not going to be able to predict. I remember I was afraid to drive on the streets. There were the aggressive squeegee guys; if you didn t put your window up, it was bad. Mark Green is already running on the fact that he s going to hire Bill Bratton as his police commissioner. I mean, these guys are being so law and order now. But of course, you can t trust what a politician says.
I do think there was never a demonstration accommodation majorca hotels so much as a force of will with what Giuliani was able to do, because it seemed before that these people had a constitutional right to sleep on the street and urinate on the street, and there was this feeling these problems were unsolvable. Like graffiti on the subways! I m optimistic. We survived eight years of Bill Clinton; I think we can survive the next mayor.
Amy Sacco , owner of Bungalow 8, 60s funky fabulous Morocco-like Los Angeles vibe. She s been here 10 years, drinking a mojito: My idea is that I don t think he s done a terrible job. I think in my business, nightlife business, cabaret, best-case scenario accommodation majorca hotels is they loosen up a bit on the nightclub dancing thing.
Over at Jet East,  Dean Winters , 36-year-old actor from HBO s Oz , Adidas up on the table, kicking back confidently, a couple of shots of tequila: Well, I think I m one of those people who s kind of on the fence. In one respect, he s kind of cleaned the place up. On the other hand, I feel like I m kind of living in a fascist state. Is it going to go to hell? I don t think New Yorkers will let this city go to hell again. I don t think we re going to go back in time. It d be nice to see some fresh blood. I m a little tired of Giuliani. The only problem is there s not another hard-ass in sight. I think the city needs a little bit of a hard-ass. I don t think Koch gets enough credit for what he did, and truthfully I don t want to see a mayor walking around with a tennis racket ever again. My nightmare is to see a mayor walking around in a jogging suit with a tennis racket again.
I grew up in the city. When I was a little kid, 7, 8 years old, my parents wouldn t let me out of their sight. Even like Tribeca and Soho were off-limits; you didn t go down there. The vibe on the street in the early 90s was I think people were sucking on the exhaust fumes of the 80s, and I think there was a lot of high tension, people were running out of money, there was a lot of crime, and let s not forget that good ol crack. accommodation majorca hotels And Giuliani really did come in with the world s biggest street sweeper and cleaned it up. It s really hard to knock that, but at the same time it s almost like a police state.
In the early 90s, I bartended at 80th Street and Third Avenue at Sam s Cafe for Mariel Hemingway, and I used to get nervous getting into a cab at 5:30 in the morning. But then 95, 96, then I was bartending in the East Village accommodation majorca hotels and living on 11th and C, and I felt safer than I did working on the Upper East Side. You re going to have to give the credit to Giuliani. I don t know. Am I wrong?
You need a Koch-type mayor. You need someone who knows the city and someone who s got fucking balls, but also someone accommodation majorca hotels who knows how to have a good time. I m not sure Giuliani s ever had a fucking good time in his life. I mean, c mon, we live in a city where you can t eat hot dogs in the street and you can t get a lap dance? We re in New York City. I don t want to live in Salt Lake City.
Tom Fontana , creator of Oz and Homicide : No, I think, once we get Giuliani out of office, the city may actually return to a sweet, sweet place. I m not somebody who advocates accommodation majorca hotels crime, but, on the other hand, I think Giuliani s been like the big Mother S