Posted on 06/27/2023 5:13:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
“New York will be a long time dying but the knife has been inserted and twisted.”
Soon I expect the police will impose huge fines on anyone caught trying to leave the city.
That’s where the money is.
Most everywhere has cameras that take pics of license plates, and then send you a bill.
That is true. Most of the city poor live in rundown neighborhoods or in those massive public housing complexes that you see in Harlem, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, etc. There are people living here that have never left the city or haven't even been out of their neighborhood in years.
So the tax won't affect them much.
I've been commuting to Manhattan for 10 years, make a comfortable income, but have never once taken my car into the city. I just have no desire to navigate those clogged streets, jockey for scarce (expensive) parking spaces and deal with all the taxis, pedestrians, and bicycles. So the tax won't affect me either (not that I support it).
The commuter rail system here is top notch. I park my car in Westport, CT and take the Metro North into Grand Central. It's actually the most pleasant commute I have ever had because I get to read on the way to and from work, listen to music, or even have a beer (on the way home).
For those outside NYC, the commuter rails are not to be confused with the subway system. Most people riding the commuter rails are professionals making six figure incomes and they are coming in from very affluent suburbs. It is extremely safe on the commuter rails here.
The subway is a totally different world. But even so, it's a great way to get around NYC once you are in it. You just need to be more on your guard in the subways.
Bottom line, taking a personal car into Manhattan is insanity in my opinion. I would never do it.
It won’t affect me either. Never there and never going to go there. That city can rot and it will in time. Half way there now.
$23 to enter... 🧐. What about cars already inside? Maybe a chance for Uber or car sharing.... Uber drives up to the line, passenger gets out, walks across the street and takes another Uber. Bingo, saved $23!
Why bother with virtual reality when you can go to NYC and experience a REAL artificial environment?
As if I needed another reason NOT to go into NYC.
1. I needed to deliver things to or from my office.
2. I was traveling by car somewhere outside the city during the day before or after I went to the office.
3. I was working on an assignment during odd hours, and would be entering or leaving the city in the wee hours of the morning.
In all three cases, I was traveling for business and was having the company pay for all the costs associated with driving -- mileage, tolls, parking, etc. If NYC wanted to charge me an extra $23 -- or $23,000 -- to travel there, then either the clients would be paying for the additional cost, or I wouldn't travel there at all.
I have two nephews and a niece living in LA. One of the brothers and sister live together because they can’t afford their own places. Other brother just got married and they’re renting a less-than-1000SF house for some ungodly sum.
The last time - and I DO mean the LAST time - I drove into NYC I was visiting a friend in Tribeca. It was after rush hour by the time I got there, there was a LOT of parking space available but the signs were confusing as hell.
There were SO MANY SIGNS! (everywhere a sign, blocking off the scenery and wasting my time)…
I asked a cop who happened to be walking by how to interpret the signs; could I park there without risk of towing/ticketing.
He told me he couldn’t tell me, that I’d have to read/interpret them as best I could and take my chances.
Great. So I did just that.
Went to see my friend at Smith Barney, and when we got back to my car there was a ticket, cost me $75.
Never again.
Not nearly as egregious as the DC cop by American University who was writing a ticket for my car while there were still TWO MINUTES left on the meter. She told me I could take it up with court.
That cost me $20 and any business I might bring to DC at any time in the future.
Effing communists.
“I wonder if that includes trucks delivering food daily?”
Won’t happen to trucks delivering to restaurants. Then again, that won’t matter since all of the restaurants will have to close because they can’t afford converting to electric stoves.
Another reason not to go there.
Cities, no thanks.
Did the nation vote for the POTATUS?
Did AZ vote got Hobbs?
NYC now has RCV for mayorals for a reason.
Because they DIDN’T want to vote for this.
Note to Gothamites: Save your city before it’s too late. Get rid of RCV, run anyone who isn’t Deep State’s, AND SECURE YOUR DAMN ELECTIONS.
I remember visiting a vendor in NY about this time. He told be that the garbage collectors were the most important people in the city.
The cab drivers could go on strike and people would get to work on the subways, busses or by walking. The restaurants would go on strike and people would brownbag it or buy from the hot dog carts and overpriced bodegas. Even the cops could strike and people would deal with it by coming to work early and leaving early before the criminals were on the streets.
But if the garbage collectors went on strike, the city had, at best, days to deal with what would accumulate. In some places, only hours.
Can you explain the appeal of that city?
Just to drive onto and off of Long Island from anywhere will cost you ca. $30 if you’re not a local. It’s ridiculous.
Yes, but that makes too much sense.
Indeed. I live on long Island and I’m planning to someday drive off and out of New York for good. And I have to go through new york city to do that. No way to avoid it.
Yeah, I could fly out from macarthur airport or take a ferry to Connecticut and continue my journey from there in order to avoid driving through nyc, but those alternatives are way, way more expensive than the $23 levy.
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