The Anthony Cumia Show - November 05, 2025


$700 Million Bus Float ｜ 11-02-25

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Anthony Cumia
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Zoran Mandami Bloomberg Gotham
The Anthony Cumia Show ｜ 11-02-25 Fake Emotion Alert ｜ 11-02-25

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I was in New York this past week, and it was business as usual. Nothing better than coming into the big city, looking out the window at the rain and seeing what's going on below. And then you find out what's happening down there on the streets below.

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00:01:00.080 Listen, all you New Yorkers.
00:01:02.360 You can't. Taxi.
00:01:04.000 Okay, then you want to look around.
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00:01:10.740 I was in
00:01:11.720 New York this past
00:01:13.900 week, and
00:01:15.440 you know, being there for Halloween
00:01:17.800 was kind of cool. I was out on Long
00:01:19.740 Island, so it was
00:01:21.400 the suburbs.
00:01:23.340 So that was kind of nice because I did get to see a lot of suburban families
00:01:27.860 and nice neighborhoods taking their kids around.
00:01:30.620 But I did have to go into the city a couple of times, and oof, ah, oof.
00:01:37.980 The flooding, that was a big thing.
00:01:40.780 That was happening right when I got there.
00:01:43.500 Nothing better than coming into LaGuardia, looking out the window at the big city,
00:01:48.400 and it's just like you're flying into Gotham.
00:01:52.520 It's gray and rainy and wet and windy.
00:01:56.940 And it just seems like that's every single time I come into New York.
00:02:03.780 No sunny day, no nice weather.
00:02:07.600 I got my coat on, and it's just miserable.
00:02:13.260 And then, you know, you find out what's happening down there on the streets below,
00:02:17.780 and it's business as usual.
00:02:20.600 flooding uh there was i don't even know what it was i i don't think it was a nor'easter
00:02:27.680 it certainly wasn't a hurricane and you know you when when those things are approaching new york
00:02:33.760 for a week before you'll hear the weather guy talking about uh you know prepare get out there
00:02:41.200 and and uh buy your your bottled water and bread and eggs and you know that that hacky bit but uh
00:02:51.020 Nothing this time.
00:02:52.640 No one really talked about this like it was a storm that was going to cause any problems until the last minute.
00:02:59.940 And I think it caught a lot of people with their pants down.
00:03:03.460 And it was a mess.
00:03:05.100 I mean, a disastrous mess.
00:03:08.400 The subways flooded.
00:03:10.380 The streets were flooded.
00:03:12.860 I guess a couple of people died.
00:03:15.020 One guy died in Crown Heights.
00:03:16.600 he was uh he drowned inside his flooded basement trying to get his dog you know a noble effort
00:03:24.120 but uh you got those basement apartments in new york city they're gonna flood you know you might
00:03:32.820 want to take some early precautions and i don't think they flood immediately i know i never get
00:03:39.900 that with people where something doesn't happen immediately but they just kind of sit there and
00:03:44.440 wait for it to get really, really bad.
00:03:47.620 But out of the circumstances, just a terrible story there.
00:03:55.260 And like I said, business as usual.
00:03:58.420 This has been New York for so long.
00:04:03.440 The infrastructure is a disaster.
00:04:07.620 And no one can really do anything about it.
00:04:11.280 I think it's even beyond the help of, you know, for lack of a better term, the leadership, right?
00:04:19.920 You know, your governors and mayors and senators and Congress people.
00:04:26.120 I think it's beyond that.
00:04:29.100 But any other system in a city that is over 100, some of it way over 100 years old, should just be in a museum.
00:04:47.300 And this is part of the New York City infrastructure.
00:04:50.200 sewers that are well over a hundred years old and uh you know they're they're kind of crumbling
00:04:59.640 coming apart at the seams and they have been for a while and this isn't new we've seen
00:05:05.680 these stories happen for many years uh you know the roads that are going to be flooded
00:05:12.860 and, you know, that on the east side, the FDR drive, good luck.
00:05:21.820 I was taking an Uber and was supposed to go up the FDR,
00:05:25.200 and it's just like very flooded, very flooded, my friend.
00:05:29.440 Like, yeah, you know what you're doing.
00:05:31.720 What am I?
00:05:33.140 What am I, your GPS, your Waze, your Google map?
00:05:38.660 Figure it out.
00:05:40.160 I love when they ask me.
00:05:42.460 I know my way around, but you're the guy.
00:05:46.300 That's part of your job.
00:05:48.680 Drive me where I want to get without driving us into a lake
00:05:51.880 or taking an inordinate amount of time.
00:05:56.800 But, yeah, it was all flooded.
00:05:59.320 The same street, so it's not like it's surprise,
00:06:03.280 surprise mayor, surprise governor, surprise congressman or senator.
00:06:08.520 it's the same
00:06:10.360 places in the same
00:06:12.660 city and they talk
00:06:14.520 about how it's got to be taken care of
00:06:16.460 we need this and that well
00:06:17.980 it does not get taken care of
00:06:20.680 and you know
00:06:22.700 the Democrats have been
00:06:24.420 in charge of New York
00:06:26.500 City for at least 11
00:06:28.320 years
00:06:28.800 you know Bloomberg was
00:06:31.380 what independent
00:06:33.080 but
00:06:34.560 you know the Democrats have been in charge and we just
00:06:38.440 see this happen again and again and again nothing gets fixed and then you have you know the savior
00:06:45.800 of new york city zorn memdani talking about 700 million dollars for free buses that
00:06:56.220 that deserves like a smack in the head i'm gonna i'm gonna make buses fast and free
00:07:04.340 it'll be 700 million dollars but i'm gonna tax the ow get your head on straight what are you
00:07:14.140 talking about did you see the flooding in the city yeah but i free buses we need infrastructure 0.98
00:07:24.180 sure that's how cities work you know crap goes in you got to get the crap out that's how it works 0.89
00:07:34.420 and when it rains you got to figure out where to put the water and the same with the snow 0.95
00:07:39.400 and the electricity has to get from the power plant to the people and it's a whole thing of
00:07:45.980 just making stuff work and if anyone is under the delusion that it's working
00:07:55.260 you got some serious issues you don't want to see the truth you're lying about it so for your
00:08:02.940 you know pretty much mayor he's pretty much your mayor now uh zorn mandani coming up with a
00:08:10.420 $700 million
00:08:12.180 proposal to
00:08:14.480 make buses free
00:08:16.160 before
00:08:18.140 a penny
00:08:20.240 of that goes to infrastructure?
00:08:22.380 What?
00:08:23.920 $700 million
00:08:25.200 given to the right
00:08:27.620 leadership
00:08:29.040 to pay the right people
00:08:32.640 not lining pockets
00:08:34.420 not favors and cronyism
00:08:36.940 but a
00:08:38.880 real uh construction firm people that know what they're doing about infrastructure and you pay
00:08:45.260 them to fix things doesn't that sound like the way a city should run doesn't that absolutely
00:08:53.120 sound like something a leader a mayor or governor or someone would would talk about not free buses
00:09:02.420 while the buses were floating in the roadway.
00:09:07.860 Oh, the bus couldn't get through because, you know, all of Queens is underwater.
00:09:14.660 But that bus is going to be free.
00:09:17.820 Why don't you fix the fact that the roads flood when it rains?
00:09:23.020 They just cannot prioritize because that's not sexy.
00:09:28.900 That doesn't appeal to the constituent mindset.
00:09:37.440 The people running for office, if they go say, well, we're going to make sure that the flood water from the rain actually drains as the rain's coming down.
00:09:48.980 And people go, ah, what's in it for me?
00:09:52.040 Well, not a flooded basement, not roads that you cannot drive through or over because it's flooded.
00:10:01.260 And they go, yeah, I don't know.
00:10:03.120 I could make a left there and I could avoid that whole area and then I'll do this.
00:10:08.060 What about free buses for me?
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