My experience in NYC is that people always come to the aid of someone in distress. I’ve never seen it fail. The only time I’ve seen personal responsibility fail was in Los Angeles once and London once.
I’ve never, ever seen a New Yorker walk by a person in distress and ignore it. Never. I have many lovely memories of NYers picking sick people up from the sidewalk, waiting by the side of an auto accident, etc. These are the same people who refuse to acknowledge you when you pass them by in the halls of an apartment building! Go figure!
Lesson learned: A Hispanic thief attacks an elderly Hispanic woman and robs her. A Jewish businessman who knew her helps her out.
Where I come from this is called two things:
“Obama/Hillary’s immigration plan in action” and
“True, human kindness in action regardless of race, religion or ethnic background”.
Which one would you choice?
What prescription are your eyeglasses? Because I'd say about 80% of people here wouldn't lift a finger. Sure there are good people among the thousands that would, but many more apparently couldn't give a rat's rear end about anyone but themselves, or are too unobservant to even notice a problem. I see it all day long in Manhattan. In the outer boroughs there is a better chance of people coming to someone's aid, at least when it involves a street crime such as a mugging.