That's funny, because almost every New Yorker I have met or seen on tv has had great things to say about his job. Maybe you're too much of a partisan to give credit to somebody right of Ted Kennedy for doing an excellent job.
Those are probably the same New Yorkers that complain every year that they can't find their polling place so they go home and not vote. Giuliani was 10 points behind Hillary when he tried to run for senate... he pretends like he dropped out for health reasons but he really did because polls showed he was way behind her in his home turf of New York City.
The New Yorkers you've been exposed to probably aren't the blacks from Harlem who complained of getting shot at by his police force or the art community that complained about his censorship...
And no, when I did Brambillas scale my partisanship was far from Ted Kennedy's... in fact it was to the right of Bill Clintons in between Clinton and Powell.