Posted on 05/09/2023 1:27:37 PM PDT by grundle
The dark, dank and dangerous New York City subway is back in the news thanks to the recent death of a Jordan Neely — a violent, mentally ill career criminal who terrorized commuters for at least a decade.
Neely had a plan to get arrested and return to jail just so he could have a place to eat and sleep. Neely went berserk on the subway, causing terror among the passengers. Fortunately, a former Marine named Daniel Penny stepped in as a good Samaritan and managed to subdue Neely, who died while he was being restrained.
For over a decade Neely, a so-called Michael Jackson impersonator, made commuting a nightmare for subway riders. He would verbally abuse passengers and intimidate them into giving him money. Back in 2013 Reddit users made a thread about him, warning subway riders to steer clear of him. Neely had a rap sheet that was a mile long — he once punched an elderly woman in the face and rather than addressing the epidemic of mentally ill schizophrenic drug-addicted criminals terrorizing the law-abiding population and acknowledging the reality that Neely got his just desserts, Democrats are attacking the Good Samaritan who heroically subdued this madman. We can only conclude that the left wants the public to accept violence, filth, and harassment as a “normal” part of public transport and urban life.
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With all the graft, contract scams, corruption, nepotism, political favoritism, tax skimming, fraud, waste, abuse and outright theft, there simply isn’t enough money to properly maintain democrat city subway systems. Besides, the inhabitants are junk.
I’m glad you chimed in. I was thinking (and hoping) those photos were misrepresentative. I used to ride the subways in NYC whenever I visited my sister who lived In Manhattan for several years. They were always clean and efficient.
I haven’t been back since 2012, but I thought it couldn’t have gotten *that* bad since then.
Also,to be fair, NYC was much the same — or worse — before Rudy Giuliani took over.
Yes, they are lying to us.
BTW, I grew up in Boston and rode the MBTA there frequently. It always seemed to run pretty well.
Remember when NYC refused to even shut down the subway overnight to clean all the cars during COVID? It has always been bad, it was just highlighted over the last few years.
I ridden the MBTA on various lines and never had a issue.
I figure to take heat from flag wavers but it is the truth.
I traveled as part of how I made a living in the 90s. I went virtually all over the world all the time. More than 250 to 300 days a year for five years. I am from a pretty simple part of the country and people here were fascinated about what I did asking a lot of questions when I was home. One was, “Where was the most frightening place you have been?” My answer, “LA”. The dirtiest? Probably New Orleans or Lagos, Nigeria. It is a close tie for some areas of both, only slightly kidding. The rotting piles of trash and dead bodies in Angola were pretty hard to take so to be fair. India anyone? Missed most of China but what I saw along the coast was not bad at all.
Things here are worse now than they were 20 years ago. Some parts of the world have improved. In the mile of secondary state highway in front of the farm I am sure I can pick up a truck load of trash and not get it all. I just picked up that much earlier this year. Great people we have in this country. Lots of civic pride and decency. NOT.
NYC Subways are porta potties on wheels and have been for years.
Long ago from other travelers, I recall hearing: “as bad as it may seem in the US, there’s no better place elsewhere”. These days, that comparison should be limited to certain states.
Well, yes, a lot of people are thankful he's down for the dirt nap.
I just looked it up to be certain. New York City owns the subways. What this automatically means is they won’t operate at a profit. No government can operate a business at a profit. There are a variety of reasons, most of which are political. When the IRS seized The Mustang Ranch, a whore house that had been in business for at least 150 years, they tried to operate it to get the money they thought they were owed. They had to close it because, as one Congressman said, “The government can’t even run a business that sells pu$$y and beer.”
It there were two privately owned competing subway lines in New York they’d be beautiful, clean and safe. So, don’t tell me how bad America is because we don’t have public transportation. We don’t have decent public transportation because when the government owns something they will NOT invest in it to make it better. (See Amtrak.) They checked the box, yes, we have public transport. Oh, and by the way it doubles as a home for the homeless and the poor people will all vote for us to keep it cheap.
It’s New York soon to be Gary Indiana.
I ride the WMATA Metrorail semi-regularly. Crowded at times, but clean. I don’t know what’s going on in New York, and who’s really telling it straight ... but the idea that American subway systems are all filthy trash dumps is simply false.
Kiev was interesting — people sell trinkets, hardware, calendars, etc. between stops.
Maybe it’s just my age but I’ve simply given up on urban areas in the United states. 12 years ago I purchased 32 acres in rural Kentucky and I’ve got my own personal garden of eden. Sure, it takes four and a half hours to mow my 9 acres of wine, but it’s well worth it. It’s like being on a different planet.
Wine =lawn
Also, the whole thing cost about a third of what a middle-class three bedroom rambler would have cost in King county washington. And the annual property taxes are just a few hundred dollars. When you want a piece of ground and home like that free and clear, the cost of living is almost 1960s level. In fact, it is. Especially when you raise your own chickens and garden.
Next time? There isn't going to be a next time. I remember visiting an uncle there a few times in the mid 70s. There will never be another time I will ever visit that fascist sh*thole ever again. But thank you for the offer.
Quite frankly, I don’t care what American subways look like. I don’t want to live anywhere near a subway system. In fact, I don’t want to live anywhere near any mass public transportation system.
I took the Brown Line one block further north, the Washington stop, twice a day. Those were the days!
I would have to agree with that. There are places I have been I could accept if I had roots there.
It is too late to stand and change here. It is hard enough to change yourself let alone others.
The only way to change here is against the Constitution and our Constitution and Liberty have been used against us to destroy us. It is a conundrum isn’t it? Truly, the only way to have a system as we once had is with an educated, moral, ethical and God fearing population. We don’t have that anymore.
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