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''New York Magazine'' also reported on a list of “Bloombergisms,” common phrases and quips the mayor used to make. These reportedly included “If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they’d go to the library instead of to Bloomingdale’s,” and “I know for a fact that any self-respecting woman who walks past a construction site and doesn’t get a whistle will turn around and walk past again and again until she does get one.”<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/michael-bloombergs-long-history-of-sexism</ref>
''New York Magazine'' also reported on a list of “Bloombergisms,” common phrases and quips the mayor used to make. These reportedly included “If women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they’d go to the library instead of to Bloomingdale’s,” and “I know for a fact that any self-respecting woman who walks past a construction site and doesn’t get a whistle will turn around and walk past again and again until she does get one.”<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/michael-bloombergs-long-history-of-sexism</ref>
===Elitism==
===Elitism===
“As Bloomberg’s New York Prospered, Inequality Flourished Too” (''New York Times'', 11/9/19) is corporate media’s ambivalent way of acknowledging that Bloomberg’s tenure benefited the few at the expense of the many, with the “growth and prosperity” the ''Times'' illustrated with the controversial Atlantic Yards/Barclay Center in Brooklyn accompanied by increases in rents, gentrification and [[homelessness''.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/09/upshot/bloomberg-new-york-prosperity-inequality.html</ref>
“As Bloomberg’s New York Prospered, Inequality Flourished Too” (''New York Times'', 11/9/19) is corporate media’s ambivalent way of acknowledging that Bloomberg’s tenure benefited the few at the expense of the many, with the “growth and prosperity” the ''Times'' illustrated with the controversial Atlantic Yards/Barclay Center in Brooklyn accompanied by increases in rents, gentrification and [[homelessness''.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/09/upshot/bloomberg-new-york-prosperity-inequality.html</ref>