Kathy Wylde, the longtime head of the Partnership for New York City, started her career as a community organizer — and has a message for today’s young socialists. @freedlander reports nym.ag/2UXpMYK
Once an activist, Wylde came to believe that true power lived not in City Hall but in penthouses on Fifth Avenue and in the private offices of the city’s biggest banks nym.ag/2UXpMYK
By the time Michael Bloomberg took office as mayor, Wylde, the onetime rabble-rouser for the working class, had become a spokeswoman for the interests of Wall Street nym.ag/2UXpMYK
One former high-ranking finance official said that a common refrain in the C-suites of the biggest banks when deciding whether to get involved in a civic cause is “We better check with Kathy first” nym.ag/2UXpMYK
There is no example as clear as Wylde — perhaps Mayor de Blasio included — of someone who once could have been plucked from the front lines of protests like those this summer but, over the course of decades, became a part of the Establishment nym.ag/2UXpMYK
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