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Brooklyn pet store owner closing business due to city’s ‘failing policies’: ‘Crime is horrible’
nypost.com ^ | August 12, 2023 | Deirdre Bardolf and Valentina Jaramillo

Posted on 08/12/2023 5:24:13 PM PDT by lowbridge

A Brooklyn pet store owner is ditching New York City and closing up shop because quality of life in the Big Apple has gone to the dogs.

“It’s time to go because the crime is horrible, the filth is outrageous, the e-bikes and all these Vespas running the sidewalks — it’s just out of control,” Laura Generoso, owner of Wagging Tails in Bay Ridge, told The Post.

“There’s no law and order.”

Generoso posted a sign on the front door of her store and on social media this week, explaining that it was not a financial decision leading her to shut down — she claims 300 to 400 clients and has been in the business since 2006.

Instead, the closure is propelled by “the failure of our politicians and [their] failing policies destroying our city and neighborhood,” the sign said.

Last year, a frightening armed robbery outside spilled into her store and made her fear for her safety.

“I never thought I was gonna leave,” she said.

“I have wonderful clients and I love what I do. But it’s not worth getting shot or killed.”

The Bay Ridge native moved the pet supplies and grooming shop she runs with her husband, Frank, to its 4th Avenue location in 2018.

Now, she’s headed to Boca Raton, Florida, once she closes on Aug. 21.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: brooklyn; newyork; nyc
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1 posted on 08/12/2023 5:24:13 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

“Now, she’s headed to Boca Raton, Florida, once she closes on Aug. 21.”


Another NY taxpayer heads to Florida.


2 posted on 08/12/2023 5:28:19 PM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: lowbridge

Wonder who she’s voted for since 2006


3 posted on 08/12/2023 5:31:25 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: CFW

Yeah, but Boca is blue anyway.


4 posted on 08/12/2023 5:32:08 PM PDT by Mermaid Girl
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To: lowbridge

Best to have said nothing until the deed was done IMO. Garbage city with too many garbage citizens that might take exception of being called out for the garbage they are.


5 posted on 08/12/2023 5:35:43 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: lowbridge

Enjoy the obnoxious libs in Boca!


6 posted on 08/12/2023 5:37:04 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: lowbridge
“I have wonderful clients and I love what I do. But it’s not worth getting shot or killed.”

Mayor: Well as a city leader, what can we do to make it worth getting shot or killed?

7 posted on 08/12/2023 5:39:36 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: lowbridge

Time for Florida to secede and close its borders.


8 posted on 08/12/2023 5:39:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: God luvs America

I’ll bet it was the rat party.


9 posted on 08/12/2023 5:57:45 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Clemenza

Or she just move to Malibu, Commiefornia.


10 posted on 08/12/2023 5:58:26 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: LeoTDB69

{snerk!}


11 posted on 08/12/2023 5:59:54 PM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: lowbridge

“:..instead, the closure is propelled by “the failure of our politicians and [their] failing policies destroying our city and neighborhood,” the sign said.”

Funny how the pendulum doesn’t swing anymore in NY…it used to…


12 posted on 08/12/2023 6:17:43 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: lowbridge

We’ll be bailing out CA and NY in 3, 2...


13 posted on 08/12/2023 6:18:46 PM PDT by bgill
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To: lowbridge

Hopefully she’s conservative and will open and run a thriving pet store in Florida. She’s younger than I thought and beautiful.


14 posted on 08/12/2023 7:19:22 PM PDT by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: lowbridge

Who wants to bet the useful idiot store owner only votes for democrats?


15 posted on 08/12/2023 8:11:21 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: joma89

Ya make your bed you sleep in it


16 posted on 08/13/2023 3:23:52 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: lowbridge

Ill informed posters will moan that those coming from Blue states are bringing their “always vote Democrat” mentality with them.
These political sages have no idea that in just 2 1/2 years the number of registered Republicans vs the number of registered Democrats in Florida has gone from 40,000 more Democrats to today’s landslide numbers. Republicans in Florida now out number Democrats by 540,000. Facts are your friend.
This women is NOT coming to Florida to vote Democrat.


17 posted on 08/13/2023 4:59:57 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: jmaroneps37

Another one of my favorite statements…not, “you get what you voted for!”

I battle folks on another forum that uses that statement regularly. I live in a blue state and have NEVER voted for a dim in my entire life, nor has my wife or any of my daughters. Yet, due to the problem many suffer from City/State voters, they ruin this state. Only 4 of the 39 Washington State counties vote RAT, but that’s where the population center is. Like Illinois, New York, etc.

This migration out of these cesspools may have a silver lining that the short sided imbeciles will never understand because it’s above their comprehension. It’s the only thing that will change these soon to be feral wastelands, along with genuine blind justice, not what we have today.


18 posted on 08/13/2023 5:49:42 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: bigfootbob

And yet, you tolerate it

Your 39 counties lack the will to resist.


19 posted on 08/13/2023 5:55:03 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: bert

I tolerate it only because my 6 figure salary binds me to this state. And I live outside of the Pugetopolis area. I read your posts regularly, what caused you to be so ignorant?


20 posted on 08/13/2023 6:17:04 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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