"An Open Letter to NYC" is a song by American hip hop group the Beastie Boys.
An Open Letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio. June 3, 2020.
The song was used during the opening credits of an episode of HBO's Taxicab Confessions, and is also included in the video game NBA Street V3. Dear New York, this is a love letter To you and how you brought us together We can't say enough about all you do Cause in the city we're ourselves and electric, too
An Open Letter To NYC Crowds of cops swarming over a single protestor, And while the Mayor did attempt to walk back some of his comments on Sunday morning, by Tuesday he had implemented an 8:00 PM citywide curfew, an unprecedented attempt to silence New Yorkers’ cries for justice.We are demanding radical change from the Mayor, who is on the brink of losing all legitimacy in the eyes of New Yorkers.
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That was apparent from the moment he hired Bill Bratton to be his police commissioner. We’ve all seen the images and read the stories.
This is a letter written by current and former staffers of the de Blasio administration.
That together we could create real, lasting change for a City and police department that have failed Black and brown New Yorkers, generation after generation.Our time in the Mayor’s Office showed us that the change we had hoped for, and fought for, might never come.We saw up close the Administration’s unwillingness to challenge the abuses of the NYPD—the Mayor’s refusal to fire Daniel Pantaleo for choking the life out of Eric Garner, the continuation of the failed “Broken Windows” policing strategy that criminalizes our Black and brown communities, the rejection of even basic accountability measures like making information public about police officers accused of misconduct.We saw how, while crime rates are at record lows, the Administration has continued to pour money into the NYPD budget—which is now almost $1 billion larger than when de Blasio took office—heightening the over-policing of Black and brown communities.We saw the aggressive push for the construction of new borough-based jails, at a cost of $9 billion, despite activists’ cries to invest that money in jobs and alternatives to incarceration.The chasm between Mayor de Blasio’s promise to reform the criminal legal system and the actions of his Administration has only widened in the past year.And these past long days, as New Yorkers have taken to the streets demanding an end to the racist policing that humiliates, maims, and kills Black New Yorkers, he stood with the very police who perpetrate that violence.Many of us marched at these protests. But we saw in Bill de Blasio a chance for real change.It was our hope that these words were a starting place. We came to the Mayor’s Office from different places and walks of life, but we all shared a common goal: to work for a fairer, more just New York City.None of us joined the de Blasio Administration believing this mayor would be radical on criminal justice policy. The single entered and peaked at number 38 on the UK Singles Chart.
That we could push the Administration further to reform New York City’s racist criminal legal system. An Open Letter To NYC (Andy Wallace Mix - Radio Edit) 4:02: An Open Letter To NYC (Album … The group performed the song live during the 2004 MTV Europe Music Awards, on November 18, 2004 at the Tor d… Contact. It was released as the third single from their sixth studio album, To the 5 Boroughs, in November 2004. An Open Letter To NYC (Andy Wallace Mix - Radio Edit)