Majority of New Yorkers not pleased with Bill de Blasio's handling of crime and poverty: poll
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, October 30, 2015, 1:17 PM
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JOE MARINO/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSNew Yorkers aren’t happy with how Mayor de Blasio has handled crime, poverty and homelessness, according to a new poll.
New Yorkers overwhelmingly disapprove of the way Mayor de Blasio is handling homelessness and crime — and think the quality of life in New York City has taken a turn for the worse, according to a poll released Friday.
The new Quinnipiac poll found that 61% of voters disapprove of the way de Blasio is handling poverty and homelessness, which he promised to improve during the 2013 City Hall race.
Twenty-eight percent of those surveyed said they thought the mayor was doing a good job on those issues.
And more than half — 53% — think the city's quality of life is getting worse, not better, the poll found. That's compared to just 14% who think it's getting better.
Fifty-nine percent of voters think the mayor isn't doing a good job stopping crime, compared to 35% who think he's doing a good job, the poll found.
The poll was conducted from Oct. 22 to 28, and included 1,155 New York City voters.
JOE MARINO/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSDe Blasio promised to improve poverty and homelessness when he ran for office.
There was a margin of error of 2.9 percentage points.
This poll comes a day after a separate Q poll found de Blasio's approval rating was at its lowest ever — with 46% of voters disapproving of his job performance.
But that same survey found that he'd easily beat Democrats in a primary, including Controller Scott Stringer, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, if they ran against him in 2017.
None of those pols have jumped in the race.
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