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.
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Generous use of the F-bomb is a hallmark of Leftist writing.
Has been such since the days of Abbie Hoffman.
That was not a good sentence. My English Teachers would never let me get away with such lazy construction.
Some may call it ‘waxing poetic’ or Purple Prose.
So why would anyone think it's dying?
“a plague has ravaged the entire country”
Yes, a plague called “leftism”.
So if you’re so determined to go with it, so content to let it die, then move the hell out the way for people fighting to live.
And that is why people like me have left or are leaving a lot of these cities, except the reasons are much more obvious now.
Eventually, Germany stopped allowing Jews to leave for England in the 30’s. The ones that could read the signs of the times were already gone.
I’ve been to Noo Yawk City exactly ONCE, and even I can see: it and all Demonrat-controlled cities are dying. It’s just a matter of time. Once the power is lost in this big cities— again, just a matter of time— they will become unlivable.
I beg you to relocate. I want you to survive.
Just curious, why is a big, safe deep water port no longer needed? Airplanes still can't replace all the cargo ships so ships are still very important.
Though if New Jersey wasn't run by the same type of Jack Wagons, the ships could unload there instead.
Is he John McEnroe?
In order for this to be a shedding and a rebirth, you have to shed your Big Government, anti American, anti law and order, and Democrat establishment ways.
Are you going to do that? Where is the evidence of that?
And then there's the small matter of a large percentage of your office workers who are working from home until further notice. Will they ever return?
I don't deny that NYC has an a incredible organizational infrastructure waiting to be used. But what private citizens are going to come back, invest their time and money and make all of that work again?
NYC will need a mayor who understands all of that but the next mayoral election is still 15 months away. The remaining people of NYC will have 15 months to experience the misery and to think about it all.
Ariama, your city is dead.
Right? And now reports of homeless being admitted to quality hotels in NYC?
Even if I wanted to, could I really visit the Big (rotten) Apple as a tourist?
Is that deblahblah?
The light is on but nobody is home with that gaze she has.
Not surprised by the idiocy she spouts.
New York is dead as long as it keeps electing deblasio and his hate-America communist wife.
Me, too, back in 1969, and got my umbrella stolen. Rested it against a fence for a minute to tie my shoe, and when I turned to pick it up, it was gone! An umbrella! For cryin' out loud!
Good point. The writing is as bad as the sentiment it was trying to express. Ugh.
Well According to FlatRate Moving, the number of moves it has done has increased more than 46% between March 15 and August 15, compared with the same period last year..... The number of those moving outside of New York City is up 50%....
Sheesh!.....just keep on going when you hit Pa!
It’s going to be another CHOCOLATE CITY like New Orleans, Ariama....it WILL be your city.
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