I grew up there in Queens, my brother still lives there but in Manhattan now. He told me the deli on the corner from him got robbed twice this past month and he just showed me photos of his street with furniture and mattresses left on the sidewalk from people moving out now he says he is going as well, FINALLY.
I absolutely hate the media in this country, this should be headlines news every night “THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO A CITY WHEN DEMOCRATS RUN IT!”
Time to break up NYC into five or more separate cities.
Short explanation: DemocRats were elected.
I prefer the link to the article not some garbage glenn beck YouTube link
Without the restaurants, shopping and theatre, NYC is dead. Unless you have a Guliani style crackdown on the thugs, the rich won’t live there and the tourists won’t come.
I figure as long as NY has a port it will survive.
Pull up any movie from the 40s or 50s look at the New York of that era. It was something to behold. Ayn Rand waxed on and on in her books about how magnificent it was.
Shameful
I was in NYC last week...drove to Connecticut and took Metro North from there.The parking lot at the station (Greenwich) was almost empty...ditto the train...ditto Grand Central. A ghost town.
Amazing...and spooky!
I LOVE New York....
If you have never been .....GO. JUST FOR THE HISTORY.
I have spent my life working as an Institutional Stock trader.... I have spent much time there. But I also love e American history. NYC is jammed with hisrtory...espec rally WAL;L STREET.
First time I went, I got there early ....I walked to Trinity Church but it was locked. I turned around and leaned on the large staircase. I looked down....and there was Alexander Hamilton’s grave. the whole yard was Revolutionary heroes!!!!
Go to NYC sometime ...just for the incredible history.
It used to be people moved to the city because that’s where the jobs were. Covid-19 has shown that people can work remotely and be even more productive than in an office environment. That’s win-win for companies who can vacate their exorbitantly expensive NYC office space and have more productive employees working from their home anywhere in the country. In turn, all those businesses in the various service industries will shut down for lack of customers and it becomes a vicious circle. I can definitely see major urban area populations contracting as more and more people flee as more and more businesses close and crime gets worse.
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