Many of those presentations, many but not all, can be more advantageously enjoyed, like the Super Bowl when watched on TV, better through the Internet.
Legitimate theater and ballet strike me as presentations organized by homosexuals for the amusement of other homosexuals and women. Great restaurants are another matter, but then I live in Europe where one expects first-class food in every restaurant.
Munich offers world-class restaurants, theater, ballet, opera and other examples of "high culture" without the brutal negativity of New York City-but it's population density is about 1/6 that of New York City.
I lived within commuting distance of New York City for decades and I would offer that it was not John Lindsay who perverted the city but it was under his administration that the city was lost to the forces of the left, the unions and racial identity politics. I would not necessarily confuse coincidence with causation.
Yeah, all those arty types are homos. Tell that to Peter Martins and Barysnikov!
High culture in Germany is quite disgusting, by the way. Ballet and opera and theatre feature on-stage urination, sex acts (real and faked) and a general loathing of life. I once heard the actress Martha Keller condemn the arts in Europe - all the while praising the more straight forward arts world of Manhattan. And while there is plenty of bad art in NYC, you can still walk into the Met and see some wonderful choreography and music.
From my original post;
...the ingrained “us against them” mentality of the NYPD toward the citizenry dates to the Lindsay (R) administration.
No coincidence at all, the PBA pushed it at the Academy!