It's amusing that during WWII, the US government was unable to get Atlantic City to turn off their fucking lights at night. As a result, in early 1942 U-boats took advantage of the handy silhouetting these lights provided to sink an enormous number of ships off the coast. It also didn't help that Admiral King chose to ignore the British telling them exactly where the fucking U-boats were at all times thanks to their ability to decrypt German naval communications.

I'm actually proud of my country for slapping the shit out of the Nazis eventually, but we sure as fuck did make it harder on ourselves than it needed to be.

Pretty cool story, but it was USSR that did pretty much all the slapping in WW2. The US was a minor player at best.

I wonder how Mamdani will handle these situations. Does he have the authority to tell Times Square to shut down their power consumption?

surely the city (not the mayor alone) can define non-essential power consumption and say "hey cut that shit out or get fined"?

I am assuming the city owns the power company. if not, wtf lol

They do not own the power company, no. ConEd is private, but the state has some authority over it.

He does have the authority to send whoever operates it a letter asking them to pretty please shut it down. Unlike with regular people however, the chance the recommendation will be followed is zero.