city is doing pretty well economy is doing well. crime down. crime is down. the new york times had a pretty exhaustive story over the weekend detailing exactly how low it is. if you sthet if you gave a set of circumstances to mayor dinkens in iand 91, 92 he would say that s pretty good. dinkens was the last mayor to be defeated for re-election. so really de blasio s problems don t have so much to do with actual real measurable problems with the city. they are more about a generalized kind of sense that he s not really managing the city correctly. you write specifically new yorkers in polls don t think the city is functioning well. the delivery truck blocking the box. the delayed subway.