Posted on 08/20/2020 9:33:57 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Dear Altucher,
Have you not walked the streets? Have you not seen the people here? Born here, bred here, living and breathing here.
They are scrappy, scared, hungry, and tired, but more importantly, they’re pissed. If anything the rebel cry of thousands, millions, fighting to live is what should terrify anyone that dare declare us dead.
New York isn’t just Broadway shows, boutiques, restaurants, and comedy clubs. All of that is just a beautiful by-product of this place. A place that ceaselessly churns out cultures and food and languages and arts and ideas that are so revered because the people who comprise them make it so.
Ariama C. Long
They’ve learned to thrive in the seedy underbelly that threatens to drag all of us, East New York to Bay Ridge, Queensbridge to Laurelton, Mott Haven to Mount Vernon, from the Battery to the Heights, Staten Island, Black, White, whatever.
New York is a dream of subverting circumstances to rise above, and yes, it is also destruction, hopelessness, homelessness, loss, and death.
People die here. We’ve interred so many it’s incalculable.
We have literally built our lives and city on the bones of the forgotten, padded it with trash, and paved the roads to make a way for newer things. These memories, these lives are the things we carry every day.
New York has never been kind and it won’t be in the coming months and years after a plague has ravaged the entire country.
(Excerpt) Read more at kingscountypolitics.com ...
Fighting for NYC...
Would include removing every single democrat from power.
Whatever, Ariama
If you don’t mind the taxes, the costs, the crime, the homeless, De Blasio’s ridiculous social engineering - then good for you. Stay in NY. Its all yours.
Plague??? ROTFLMAOPIMP!
I saw “king county politics” and assumed they were talking about Seattle at first...
Althucher presented a logical, point by point description of the current state of NY. This rebuttal is just a childish tantrum.
“... A place that ceaselessly churns out cultures and food and languages and arts and ideas ...”
After reading that, I’m fighting to keep my lunch down.
My take also..... Starting with the title.
I was born in Brooklyn (same hospital as Tony Fauci, BTW).
I lived there through the 70s (Summer of Sam, “Ford to NY: Drop Dead”, Taxi Driver, the whole nine yards).
I went back to visit in the 90s, carrying a baby - people got up on the subway to offer me a seat - un-frickin-believable, huh?
My great-grandparents all came to Brooklyn between 1871-1882.
It’s a mistake to count out the Big Town - but things don’t look so good, right now.
Who the F*** are you to claim that this is “your” city? If it is, it should be taken away from you by force because it’s turned into a s***hole.
but that is why tourists come. Along with a reasonable expectation that you won’t be killed as you walk the streets. People don’t come to NYC for the smell of urine in the subway.
Her piece is heavy on emotion, somewhat light on logic.
This author bruises her own credibility from the beginning with the headline. She’s one of those who presume using profanity equals authenticity and sincerity of purpose.
Not necessarily. Using profanity as your first message indicates a poor vocabulary and a limited palette of adjectives. I admire her determination to survive, just but surviving or treading water for your whole life is not very satisfying to most ambitious, big picture people.
That other writer’s article broke everything down in logical fashion. He spoke as someone used to doing business as a way of life. I’m not saying he has the last word on it, but the concerns he detailed will need to be addressed. His was a remarkable piece. A learning tool that all big city Mayors should closely read.
Every reason that BUILT NYC into the center of the universe is long gone.
Big, safe deep water port? Not needed.
Open land abounding the easy access from the sea. Not so much.
Erie Canal bringing the bounty of the great Middle of America to the East Coast seaport? Not needed.
Wall Street? Not needed.
Manufacturing? Not so much anymore.
Military take off point for war in Europe? Not needed.
UN? What a laugh.
Give me three reasons why NYC should be anything more than an old world, rotting husk of it’s former self.
It’s been a Zombie for many years. Maybe DeBlowHard and Koomo will finally kill it.
I shouldn’t hope her apt. gets cleaned out by robbers and she has her funding cut off by DeBlasio cutbacks in order to fund reparations. No, I shouldn’t.
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