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 ...
“Freelance multimedia journalist” = semi-literate blogger.
But you voted for Bill DeBladiblah, didn’t you, sweetheart?
The rantings of a de Blasio voter.
At least she’s staying in NY.
Covid as a plague is over.
The twin scourges of BLM and Antifa have
yet to be put down.
Furthermore kid, “you” “built” almost nothing.
You were either left out or not present and
with few exceptions lacked the intellect and skill
to do more than take direction to do menial
repetitive tasks.
Mayor John Lindsey was the beginning of the end for the Big Apple. I’d jump off the George Washington bridge before living in that cesspool.
If thriving in the seedy underbelly was actually a thing, there's nothing to worry about, because it's going to be all seedy underbelly in a few months and all the freelance media critics who can't write a headline without swearing can live like kings. Good luck enjoying living in a city that just lost half its tax base and a fifth of it's police force but still has all of its regulatory burden and budget liabilities.
From CUNY Journalism School.
She better do group projects from now on, with Aliyah, Chaquille and Aiyden.
Well, that was stupid.
She should have spoke at the DNC last night. Stupid platitudes abound.
Matriculated ?
NYC is the center for the arts in the US.
When I say “arts”, I’m referring the real arts.
Culinary
Musical
Painting
Sculpture
Play performance
Of note: Our best symphony and opera company both reside there, as do our best museums.
NYC is the only city that can support them.
I stayed for 4 DAYS!! And I had moved 5 HUGE SUITCASES of stuff.....this was back in the late 60’s.
I wonder if she can read cursive..
Giant Richard Simmons?
Because New York is the center of the financial universe.
The bedrock capital exchange and store.
The original article brought up a lot of good points, and is not based on emotion and fear and hatred.
That said, anytime anyone says a city is dead forever, is pretty much guaranteed to be wrong. We nuked two cities flat and both are still in existence and rebuilt today.
New York isn’t dead.
New York is in the process of dying, however. I’d describe it as a person who’s been mugged, beaten up and gut shot a couple times, left in an alley.
Destiny...... she has lost control of her destiny.
The arts? so what? Old ladies will support them financially from beyond the grave..
New York has the Subway cancer and the superb deli sandwiches will perish along with Macy’s and Bloomies and Brooks Brothers.
Read it? Maybe. Write it? No way.
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