PLEASE go to source for very good photos that do this article justice.
“This time it is different” — The author says about the D’Blasio wreckage known as New Your City.
D’Blasio — Apres Moi who gives a shiite. In fact I don’t give a shiite right now and cannot wait until my term is done in 2021. De-Blazzz is rumored to be a big marijuana consumer.
The NYPD demanded DeBlasio resign by sundown by of course he won’t, not when there is more things he can destroyed like all commies do.
Look at this, by 63rd street and Lexington: Attempted rape 11 am broad daylight with people around, and the freakin animal who would probably be released with no bail......
https://nypost.com/2020/08/30/attempted-rape-on-nyc-subway-platform-thwarted/
Not only is NYC not dead, this may be the best thing that’s ever happened to the city. It will take some time, but there will be a Renaissance the likes of which are hard to imagine.
NYC has;
Too pivotal a location
Too much infrastructure
Too deep a history
Too much valuable building stock
Too much investment in success
Let folks say it’s dead - all the better for those buying in.
Typical Lib, destroy a city with their progressive ideals. Instead of learning from their errors and fixing the issues, they give up to move to new virgin territories to repeat their mistakes.
In NY City, socialists, parasites and wreckers have the upper hand.
NY City will need a radical change of leadership to confront these people, only then can they can even hope to start a recovery. And I don’t believe people there have the stomach for it. De Blasio still has 14 months in office, so the greatest decline has yet to occur.
Perfect storm. New technology and lawlessness. The new technology was already weakening New York’s retail base. A significant percentage of people were shopping at internet based warehouse outlets such as Amazon and not shoping at brick and mortar sites. The pandemic has now demonstrated to big commercial firms that their employees can work and communicte profitably and efficently from home. Huge expensive commercial locations are not economically necessary. If people no longer congregate in these central locations, the resteraunts, shops and small retail shops lose their customers. Nor do they use mass transit to travel five days/week. Given the breakdown of law and order, the release of violent criminals from prison, people, especially people with children are fleeing urban centers.Foriegners no longer view urban real estate as safe havens for their wealth. The result is a monumental decline in commercial and residential real estate values, a decline in tax revenues and a loss of productive population. Cultural institutions that depend on subsidies and paying attendance are hard pressed as well.
Good idea to avoid NYC centered investments at this time. Won’t be coming back soon.
The Internet is the most revolutionary development since ....
Hmmmm
Electricity?
The wheel?
And like those other revolutions, there will be some victims. Welcome to victimhood NYC.
Hollywood can use it for Disaster Movies
Story of when a sh*thole becomes worse than a sh*thole?
Moron.
Hey, I know some Indians who will give you a fistful of beads for that land!
If NYC is pronounced dead then the cause of death should be listed as suicide.
The citizens of New York voted for feel good politicians not people who knew how to run a business (or a city).
It was always a con. It is easier to steal from the public treasury when you promise to increase social spending. There are no bench marks to measure success by so the billions of dollars “spent” just evaporates with no accountability.
There are thousands of ways for a politician to skim money off the flow of dollars from the treasury to the streets.
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If NY continues to be run by the terminally stupid and ideological it won’t be coming back.
Remember Detroit
Excellent article. Long but I read every word.
That is devastating what is happening to NYC and a good bellweather.
Will NYC come back? Maybe or maybe not. After all this is over, there will be a great rebalancing and nobody knows what that will look like. NYC has a massive amount of ready-to-go infrastructure to return to that will be very tempting when prices hit a certain low point. I can see NYC returning, but it is not a given at all.
Since it is at least partially dependent on government, and we know the government is hostile to business and freedom, NYC could very well be in a death spiral akin to Detroit.
Who knows?
Scary. The Rats have really done a job on their cities and people this time.
The most terrifying point in this article discusses how these liberal whack-job New Yorkers are taking thier money and votes to red states to destroy them and create the same communist hell holes they are leaving. It doesn’t take a lot of millionaire/billionaire commie liberal New Yorkers to move to Idaho or Tennessee or South Carolina, and turn them blue. They don’t have a lot of votes, but they have a lot of money to buy a lot of influence. And you know darn well all of these starry-eyed, idiotic commie libs will destroy these nice states.
The really bad news is, once they flip all these states blue, the GOP is done. No more GOP president, House, or Senate.
I am terrified of these New Yorkers spreading their commie ways far and wide. The best thing for me as a conservative would be for more commie libs to pack into New York state and waste their votes on an already blue state.
It is flat terrifying knowing they are moving to a host of red states and will destroy those small states in short order. Stinking rotten awful.
As a recent retiree, New York City was high on my list of places to visit, despite the nose-bleed hotel prices and taxe.
The Cloisters
Central Park
The people watching
Cruising the streets at midnight
The waterfront
The museums
The parks
The ferry rides
The Empire State building
Top of the Rock
Grand Central Station
Times Square
I could go on and on. Right now I have zero interest in ever seeing New York due to crime, homelessness, stupid laws, the decay, and not wanting to support deBlasio.
By and large, I am completely losing my desire to travel to big cities as a result of what is going on. I am a city guy. I love city amenities and entertainment. I hav been focusing my attention on that for future travel.
I am am transitioning my focus to smaller rural towns, parks, scenic areas, lakes. I probably wil be focussing my tourist dollars outside of cities rather than inside them. I don’t know how many people are starting to think like me, but it wouldn’t take too many million to starve these big liberal cities of their tourism dollars.
Don’t get me wrong. I am not boycotting big liberal cities. I just have no apetite for being a victim in them, so I want to travel to safer places where I have low risk, but can still find entertainment. It is not a boycott but a natural aversion to being a victim.