What’s wrong with everybody? The consensus is that Mayor Bloomberg is poised for an easy win in November. His Democratic rivals are floundering and battling one another over silly things like doctored campaign photos and dumb comments. Meanwhile, Mr. Bloomberg and his billionaire buddies are destroying the essence of the city, bit by bit, right under their noses, and nobody’s objecting to the butchery.

This mayor from Massachusetts doesn’t understand or care that what makes New York great is its people, not its buildings. I may not have been able to speak out about what happened to La Marqueta in Spanish Harlem, but I’m not going to let the Bronx Terminal Market fade away without making a plea for the tenants being forced out thanks to a sweetheart deal with pals of the Bloomberg administration.

Isn’t the Democratic Party supposed to be concerned with the plight of minorities? Isn’t that supposed to be why members of minority groups vote overwhelmingly Democratic? Then why, pray tell, hasn’t Gifford Miller, Fernando Ferrer, or one of the others made a brouhaha about the minority vendors being evicted, in a highly questionable deal reeking of conflict of interest?

Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff’s former business associate, billionaire Stephen Ross, heads the Related Companies, which was granted a lucrative deal to build Gateway Center, a huge mall in the South Bronx, on the site of the market. Another cushy part of the deal is that Related got a land swap that gives them the land where the defunct Bronx House of Detention stands, in exchange for another parcel in the neighborhood. The jail property has been valued at $41 million, the Related parcel at much less.

Originally, the land swap was for a velodrome for the cycling competition in the 2012 Olympics — of which New York will not be the host city. Nevertheless, the deal to swap the space, raze the market, and build the 1 million square-foot mall is still in play. The city also agreed to guarantee repayment of the $32.5 million bank loan Mr. Ross used to finance the purchase if the Gateway Center project falls through.

Mind you, this deal was hatched without a public request for proposals, and without competitive bidding.

The current wholesalers at the market are paying a total of $250,000 a month in rent to Related, and it is paying the city $22,000 a month over the course of its five-year lease, as Juan Gonzalez reported in the Daily News.

The Bronx Terminal Market, located just south of Yankee Stadium, is the largest seller of ethnic and tropical produce on the East Coast. The vendors are mostly African-American or Hispanic, so where are the Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton?

The communications director of the National Retailers Alliance, Matt Lipsky, sent me a link of articles on this subject (http://www.momandpopnyc.com/articles/terminalmarket/).

Read these articles and weep.

I fought a losing battle for those longtime lessees of space at the Brooklyn Navy Yard who were being aced out by the Steiner Studio. The city’s Economic Development Corporation favored this studio deal, which cost the city more than $40 million, yet it rejected the Stapleton Studios project, which would have cost the city nothing. Clearly, I don’t have the influence to affect what is considered “progress.”

I do know that Manhattan’s La Marqueta used to be a place of wonder, as exotic as the Kasbah in Tangier. At its peak, it held 510 stalls. One side of the market, which ran between 111th and 115th streets under the old New York Central tracks, had stalls offering dry goods, while the other side sold food.

The smell of the spices, tropical vegetables, fruits, and baked goodies from all over the world was mouthwatering. Between 115th to 116th, the market was devoted to fresh fish and meats. The smells there were not as appetizing, but the prices and quality of the fare were incomparable.

Then the city stepped in to improve it, and now, only eight stalls are in operation. When I visited the old site last year, I was appalled at the senseless decimation of a city landmark in the name of progress.

The city may claim that the Bronx Terminal Market was an eyesore and the area was neglected and undeveloped. That is true. The former owner didn’t do its job. But there should have been a fair process in place to negotiate improvements, a process that did not involve eviction without adequate relocation for the remaining wholesalers. Instead of assisting the Bronx wholesalers in relocating to a suitable locale, it has in essence told them: “Here’s some money, now get out of town.”

Voters may be telling that to this mayor, if they finally wake up to what’s happening to this city.