I commute to Brooklyn everyday from Jersey. Over the past 7 years, Bay Ridge has gone from a quanit, almost hipsterish hovel, to a boarded up, homeless infested, smelly, filthy shit hole. Syringes and empty hooch bottles, human excrement and the smell of urine mixed with marijuana smoke prevails. It’s gross.
Sounds like the NYC I worked in in the late ‘70s and 80s.