You missed your chance. The Big Apple rotted on the tree two years ago. Be very careful where you venture
You’re exactly right.
As someone who used to visit/stay (with family/friends) OFTEN.....we wouldn’t go back there, for much of anything.
We’re supposed to be there, right now, in fact. A group of business associates were going to hold a conference there, but....due to total lack of interest....cancelled the whole thing.
We used to take the subway to ball games, would walk from dinner to a show.....even walked all the way back to our room, from Flatiron to Central Park area, one beautiful night. Not a chance we’d do that, now.
No, NYC isn’t safe or even attractive, any more. Grime and crime on every street.
They completely destroyed one of the greatest cities on Earth.
Maybe you can change your plans to FL.
I grew up in NYC’s museums, and learned every cheap, but wonderful date that NYC had to offer, from taking a cruise on the Staten Island, the top of the Empire State Bldg, the Armory at the Met Museum, Museum of Nat History, or just walking on a warm summer night on 5th Ave. It was a wonderful place.
I once hitched a ride on a weekend pass from Ft. Bragg, NC, just so I could walk around NYC for 10, 12, hrs. eat NYC food from pizza, to delis, to street foods, and just be invigorated by the atmosphere, the spirit of the greatest city on Earth.
You are absolutely right! It is all gone now! It has become a loathsome, dangerous, filthy cesspool, where only the criminals, crazies, and idiots, are not walking on full combat alert. The constant tension, the stress is unbearable. I truly miss NYC, but it’s gone. All of our cities are gone...maybe our entire country.
SAD is too mild a term. ENRAGING is more like IT!
KEEP THE FAITH.
A decade ago, I still felt safe riding the subway from Manhattan to Queens at 3 a.m. I realize things worsened after DeBlasio replaced Bloomberg.