Posted on 02/09/2016 7:54:17 AM PST by don-o
Tonight I walked onto the subway and saw the car was half-empty because a stinking bum was lying on a seat, and no one wanted to smell him.
Rome fell. New York is falling down. It is filled with illegalities and filth as a result of the good intentions and failed ideas of liberals. Politicians pretend to want the best while they deliver the worst.
De Blasio and New York City Council speaker Melissa Mark-Mark-Vivirito have decriminalized public urination and quality-of-life offenses. Are they kidding? De-civilizing a beautiful city is not a positive. It is a fall from grace.
The Broken Windows theory states that small crimes lead to major crimes. De Blasio and Mark-Vivirito should study sociology. Their ignorance is ruining our city.
They pretend to be kind to the poor while they destroy their lives and leave them scantily clothed with no toilet paper on street corners. They whisper sweet things in bums ears while they throw their lives into sewers.
De Blasio and Mark-Vivirito want to lower the quality of life in New York. They are doing a good job at making New York into a third-world country.
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Oh, but the upper east side is filled with empty, decrepit buildings - particularly along Madison and Fifth Avenue! And what a shell Lincoln Center has turned into! The ballet dancers are reduced to wearing rags during The Nutcracker. And Harlem hasn’t been gentrified to the point of mindblowing beauty - that’s your lying eyes!
Of course, very few people in NYC urinate on the streets or sleep in the subway, and of course, NYC is still the fashion capital of the USA.
The point of the the article, and the thread in general - how society, and government, have allowed aberrant, crass, and even disgusting behavior, once shunned or shameful, to become "acceptable."
NYC seems to be returning to the early 80's condition, thanks to another ideologically-blinded, race-baiting, pandering, asinine mayor. When the squeegee men return, we'll know we've returned to the bottom.
LOL
Except that it’s not turning back into the 1980s. It has its problems like any big city, a foolish mayor and city council (which can be replaced) but it is still a powerful, international city that will survive a dummy like Deblasio. And real estate values are absolutely through the roof!
LOL!! And, you can now stay in a Four Seasons suite for pennies on the dollar, I hear.
On my end its contempt. You in the rest of the country would never believe upstate is Conservative all the way.
Canceled by NYC.
I wonder why every post of yours seems to thinly suggest something out of bounds? Can’t wait for the next election? Want to just jump the sheer ugliness of some version of CWII here? Sure sounds like it to me.
While NYC certainly has big issues attributable to uber liberal policies, way too many people here at FR are quick to criticize the City even though they have never lived or worked there, ridden the subways, or even traveled beyond the Mid-Town tourist areas or the airports. The truth is that NYC is one of the safest cities in the country and that includes nearly every big city in the reddest of red states. The truth is that NYC is one of the cleanest big cities in the country — an amazing feat given the fact that 8.3 million people live in NYC and on any given weekday, there are an additional 850,000 to 1.2 million commuters and visitors, mostly in Manhattan. The truth is that the NYC subway system moves nearly 5.6 million riders a day, which is nearly twice the size of the combined population of the next two largest cities in the country. Stand in Grand Central Terminal or Penn Station during the rush hours, and there are more people within eyesight than the entire population of the towns and cities where many Freepers live.
I worked in NYC in the 80s and I work here now. There is still no comparison. In the late 70s and early 80s it was like Death Wish. And the racial tension was through the roof. Lately there’s been a noticeable uptick in the homeless, but even they are different. In the 80s the homeless were confrontational and demanding. Now they’re just mousy and sad. And the racial tension is a blip now, nobody really pays much attention to it on a day to day basis. There’s crime everywhere in the U.S., but for a major city, NYC is safe as you could imagine. The subways are a bit grubby, but not scary at most hours.
I wore my hat on the subway this morning. And a tie.
And the price of a Broadway theater ticket has dropped to $150 a seat because no one is buying them. LOL.
Yes, you said it well. It’s an amazingly well-run city filled with hard-working people. I love how quick an order of coffee is served at the takeout counter of a deli or coffee shop or bodega. It’s in front of you before you’ve finished the order!
You lie, sir! I saw you and you were half nude - the way most of us ride to work in the morning!
My parents grew up in Washington Heights. My dad and his friends used to drag an outboard motor on the subway - to and from Coney Island where they had a dingy stashed.
Success success success success success...
Does it matter???
Add San Francisco to this.
I never said I wore pants.
Ah, you have me there!
I saw a show at Lincoln Center’s Appel Room for the first time last week. That is the most beautiful concert room I’ve ever been in. A forty foot high glass wall backs the stage, overlooking Columbus Circle and Central Park. Unbelievable.
Detroit reached its peak in approximately 1950. In 1960 the census bureau reported that Detroit still had the highest income per capita of any city in America. It had held this title for approximately 40 years. I was conceived in Detroit... my parents were going to a University there. It was the place to be. I still have numerous relatives that live outside the city.
The real estate section of any Newspaper in NYC is giving a snapshot of current conditions. The person who is “ignorant to the point of stupidity” is one who does not believe that the lessons of history apply to them or where they live.
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