ew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg rules the five boroughs by method of verisimilitude, appearing to wrestle with the very constituencies—tax evaders, rapacious real estate developers, automobile owners, the GOP—he exists to support. So on the occasion of an alleged car bomb scare on 45th street late last night, we’d just like to point out that it was less than a year ago when his administration installed a useless five-block bicycle lane in Midtown and declared Times Square, the area in which this car bomb had been placed, “closed” to traffic.