NY’s Entitled Pols

To see how grand New York’s politicians’ sense of entitlement can grow, it’s hard to beat state Sen. Marty Golden’s bill to sweeten the pension for a fellow Brooklyn pol, ex-Borough President Marty Markowitz.

Markowitz first entered the city’s retirement system in 2009 — then opted to stay on for a third four-year term after then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg engineered a temporary suspension of the term-limits law.

His pension doesn’t reflect the extra time on the job, plus he had to pay insurance in those years to ensure his wife would collect the benefit if he died in office.

Golden’s bill, first reported by Politico, would “fix” all that, reimbursing him for the insurance payments and increasing the pension. Because . . . why?

Of course, Markowitz is the guy who complained, while still Brooklyn beep, that the pension he’d earn “will not pay [his] rent.”

On the other hand, he’s now pulling down $180,000 a year as a “borough promotion” worker at NYC & Co., the city’s visitors bureau. Looks to us like the old-boys’ network is doing him enough favors already.