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...
“... 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.
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.
Generous use of the F-bomb is a hallmark of Leftist writing.
Has been such since the days of Abbie Hoffman.
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.
