I've always lived near NYC, but only recently returned to Manhattan for medical treatments. These days I always have a driver and the drivers seldom take the same routes.
I've been amazed at how clean the City looks; even the West Side. I also see lots of carefree kids riding scooters &c.
NYC is not the cesspool that I imagine San Francisco to be.
ML/NJ
We haven’t been there (used to be there, regularly, until family, thankfully moved, before China virus lockdowns 🙏🏻🙏🏻), in three years.
It was definitely a cesspool, then…and, I can only go by accounts that I read here (almost daily, violent crimes) and that I see on the news/news outlets.
Glad you have a driver to get you directly where you need to be. We did, too.
It has changed so much, since when we first began visiting family, there.. :-(