Posted on 08/24/2020 11:46:53 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Manhattan is an island off the coast of America. Are we part of the United States? Kind of. And this is one of the toughest times we’ve had in quite a while.
But one thing I know for sure: The last thing we need in the thick of so many challenges is some putz on LinkedIn wailing and whimpering, “Everyone’s gone! I want 2019 back!”
Oh, shut up. Imagine being in a real war with this guy by your side.
Listening to him go, “I used to play chess all day. I could meet people. I could start any type of business.” Wipe your tears, wipe your butt and pull it together.
He says he knows people who have left New York for Maine, Vermont, Tennessee, Indiana. I have been to all of these places many, many, many times over many decades. And with all due respect and affection, Are .. You .. Kidding .. Me?!
He says Everyone’s gone for good. How the hell do you know that? You moved to Miami. Yes, I also have a place out on Long Island. But I will never abandon New York City. Ever.
And I have been onstage at your comedy club Stand Up N.Y. quite a few times. It could use a little sprucing up, if you don’t mind my saying. I wouldn’t worry about it. You can do it from Miami.
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With all this commentary about Florida Seinfeld had a perfect opening to work in a reference of Del Boca Vista and didn’t. He’s slipping!
Indeed, Seinfeld left New York for California twenty-five years ago! He was way ahead of the curve.
To tell the truth NYC has never been alive to me. Now with the riots in all of these major cities I can’t imagine why I would ever want to go.
I have been to a few major cities over the years and can’t think of any reason to go back to any of them except a stop at an airport to transfer to another plane.
I was in Seattle in February just before the whole mess started, it was a cesspool then, I can’t imagine what it is now.
Cities are just too many people in too small a space.
I know it’s just me but I would never live in those conditions willingly.
As it is, over the last 30 years the suburbs have begun to envelope my home and if I could convince my wife we would flee beyond their reach.
Seinfeld dumped by a cashier. ...
https://youtu.be/Y3kTYCLSgsg
Exactly.
He flies or drives in and stays a couple days cavorting with friends of a feather. Then he flies or drives out.
He doesn't live there. He visits for short periods of time, hangs-out with his friends, and leaves.
I don't know if NYC is 'dead forever' but it's going to suffer for years as people find they can live elsewhere and businesses aren't bound by location and works can telecommute.
Follow the money .... Genocide Cuomo and Comrade BeBlasio have probably hired him to whine and beg people to return.
As a comedian, Jerry Seinfeld knows how well the internet killed stand-up comedy the way the 'talkies' killed vaudeville - everyone sees the good skits after they're performed once. Once it's digital, the "club" can be anywhere and is more likely going to be a streaming edition.
He worked in the entertainment industry but a city needs mainline industries to keep it afloat. New York City has been falling farther and farther behind the current world in terms of industry, technology, and infrastructure. It's a zero sum game and those caught behind are going to be forced to pay the full bill as long as President Trump and the Republicans enforce NO BAILOUT FOR FAILED DEMOCRAT STATES.
Walk around the streets without a bodyguard. Ride the subway. Then tell me you Love NY.
Gee, that’s a shame.
its part of their game you know...how much crap they can step around or step over and then they get to talk big at their cocktail parties..
Of course it isn’t dead. The moving companies can’t keep up with all who want to move out. But once they catch up, then it will be.
“Why jerry is seen as an expert on NY is beyond me.”
A couple of actresses were experts on farm life because they made a movie about farming.
Al Gore was an expert on the internet because ............. he said so.
Hes free to open up a lot sooner...in another state.
It could be based anywhere. Traders are obsolete as it is. They weren’t on the floor for months. Didn’t stop me from trading.
They will return to NYC. Not for the jobs. They’ll return because they LIKE sniffing each others butt gas. Because you need a big city to truly celebrate perversity. Because they don’t want to cook at home.
I think of it as a dog returning to its vomit, but I’m sure they’d say the same thing about me LIKING places like Willcox AZ!
Would be interested in your take on Jerry’s view that the energy is (uniquely, permanently) there in Manhattan, which will therefore inevitably roar back stronger than before.
Good point!
Just another arrogant New Yorker. The city is their god.
Business as usual.
No unions?
A number of years ago I did some work at the NBC Newschannel in Charlotte, NC. It is (or was?) a place where NBC collects video feeds from around the world, and makes them available to their affiliates. Charlotte, sort of fascinated me. It had (This was back in 1992, I think.) lots of sky scrapers which was a bit of surprise to me. I thought about this place I was working. It naturally would have been in Rockefeller Center in New York City, but it wasn't. Charlotte probably had a population similar to Morristown, NJ, when I was a child. Now it supports major league sports. The politicians here in the northeast had driven the businesses and the population away.
ML/NJ
When you use a world famous comedian to try and convince the world that New York City isn’t dead as a destination to live and visit... You know it’s over for New York for at least the next decade or more.
When I was a teen, my family went on a road trip to Florida and when we hit New York we intended to drive around it... I told my father to take a right and my sister (who suddenly decided she could read a map) told my father to go straight... We ended up driving through Brooklyn and we were treated to what looked like the bombed out shells of buildings I had seen in documentaries about world war 2... It took Ronald Reagan and 2 good Mayors... Ed Koch (who was sadly followed by David Dinkins, a terrible but temporary blip) and Rudy Giuliani...
In two short decades... Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio have done their best to return it to it’s 1970 glory days, and they have accomplished that with a zeal. Especially de Blasio.
You are right Mr. Seinfeld... New York will eventually be the New York of your comedy show set at some point in the future... It just won’t be anytime soon and it will never happen with a useless mayor like Bill de Blasio.
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