Posted on 09/29/2013 7:36:30 AM PDT by shove_it
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Something stinks in upper Manhattan.
Residents claim skunks have invaded Inwood and Washington Heights, roaming the streets surrounding Fort Tryon Park and stinking up the neighborhood.
“I tell my friends down in midtown or Hells Kitchen that there’s a skunk problem up here and they don’t believe it,” resident Mark Bailey said. “They’re in front of every building…they’re not just in the parks, they’re all over.” [...]
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As I said, Harlem has been gentrified. It was starting to turn around in the late 90s but take a look at it today. I’ve been in the city since the late 60s, so I know filthy from clean.
I see that. They seem to really like Inwood, though.
“Skunk juice is sweet perfume compared to the foul odor concentrated in that cesspool of Washington, DC.”
DC has no skunks! They stay away as a professional courtesy since they are closely related to those who “inhabit” Capitol Hill
I got news for ya. You’ve had skunks in the neighborhood since at least the days of Boss Tweed.
They’re actually all up through the various Heights and West Harlem as well. But it’s safer, less Hispanic and more suburban up in Inwood.
And now everyone wants to live on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx! I long for the day when the Grand Concourse comes back.
The Skunks decided to improve the city...
Ha—you’re a longer-time NYer than me!
But yeah, I know some artsy people moving up there for the cheaper rent for sure.
Bwahaha.
At first I thought this was going to be a story about members of Congress visiting the neighborhood....
I can not tell a lie,
I captured those skunks and placed them there.
As a Harlem resident I can assert that Harlem is not even close to being gentrified - that’s a canard created by The New York Times in cahoots with real estate developers to increase rents on slums. Gentrification is what occurred in the meatpacking district, that was transformed from a sparsely inhabited quasi-industrial wasteland of transvestite prostitution to an ultra-trendy upscale neighborhood of expensive restaurants, hipster bars, outdoor cafés and cutting-edge clothing boutiques. Nothing like that has happened in Harlem. Harlem is enormous - its north/south axis starting at 110th St and Morningside Dr. and extending up to 150th St. Its east/west axis goes from Fifth Ave to Riverside Dr. A couple of new restaurants five Starbucks and a few new laundromats do not constitute gentrification. I lived in the East Village as an adolescent, before it was even called the East Village - I know what gentrification is.
For those who don’t live here: Washington Heights is the neighborhood north of Harlem, and Inwood is the neighborhood north of that, at the tippy-top of Manhattan.
I’m sorry but as someone who has lived in NYC since the early 70s, I know that the neighborhood has turned around. Why are you living there if it is so bad?
I wasn’t arguing with you. As I said, that was the 90s and I haven’t been uptown since 99.
I was born, raised and lived in NYC for a long time...neighborhoods rise and fall. It’s just the way of things.
The liberals should protect the animals.
It’s all due to Global Warming! They’re seeking high ground.
The rivers surrounding NYC are all rising rapidly, after Superstorm Sandy hit NY because of Global Warming, and the skunks have been told that the city will be underwater by sometime after year 3013; unless weather like the system that caused the Colorado floods because of Global Warming; or the building of the Keystone Pipeline causing massive release of hydrocarbons, causing Global Warming; speeds up the total melting of all the ice on planet earth and we will all DIE next year!
It’s all due to Global Warming! They’re seeking high ground.
The rivers surrounding NYC are all rising rapidly, after Superstorm Sandy hit NY because of Global Warming, and the skunks have been told that the city will be underwater by sometime after year 3013; unless weather like the system that caused the Colorado floods because of Global Warming; or the building of the Keystone Pipeline causing massive release of hydrocarbons, causing Global Warming; speeds up the total melting of all the ice on planet earth and we will all DIE next year!
They should also add a paper mill for good measure.
Yes and a rendering plant.
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