New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg met a chorus of boos and jeers during a St. Patrick’s Day parade in the Rockaways Saturday, reports the New York Post:
The jeers grew so loud toward the end of the Queens parade that mayoral candidate and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn appeared to break away from the mayor to march separately.
A spokesman for Quinn later said she always intended to walk separately from the mayor.
Locals didn’t spare their ire over the area’s slow recovery, hoisting signs reading, "Mr. Mayor, we need jetties" and "Listen to the Rockaways."
"We’ve been dying down here, up to our ears in muck trying to rebuild, get back to a regular life," one heckler told The Post. […]
"Send money, pal. Send money!" one heckler yelled back. "Talk is cheap!"
Hurricane Sandy hit the Rockaways hard last October and residents are trying to rebuild. The Washington Free Beacon reported in January "many people [in Rockaways] are living without basic necessities even as temperatures dip into the single digits."
