Posted on 10/10/2023 5:49:44 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey
Times Square has found its groove heading into the crucial holiday season, with new businesses opening, hotel sales picking up and retail rents again on the rise.
The entertainment district recently recorded its 180th business opening since the pandemic, surpassing the 179 closures that resulted from Covid-19 turning one of the U.S.’s most heavily trafficked districts into a ghost town. .......
Crime in Times Square remains below 2019 levels, despite issues involving people suffering from mental illness and drug use, said Tom Harris, president of the Times Square Alliance, a nonprofit that advocates on behalf of the neighborhood and its businesses.
“The reality of it is that it’s safe, it’s vibrant,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Bidenomics At Work !
Creating more jobs for muggers, panhandlers and dope pushers...
Happy Days are here again! /sarc
This is an advertising piece.
““The reality of it is that it’s safe, it’s vibrant,” he said.”
Who rules Bartertown?
“The reality of it is that it’s safe, it’s vibrant,”
It is possible that there are one or two cities, or may be dozen or two that have higher crime rates than NYC.
That’s not what my friends who live in Manhattan have been telling me.
Live webcams tell a different tale.
Manhattan is relative safe. The other boroughs (save Staten Island), not so much.
That’s why the Venezuelans told Adams to GFY. He could keep his flyers. They’re coming to New Yawk anyway because it’s “bustling” and is “a hap, hap, happy place. LOL!
This is a crock. It’s been bustling for years. This is not new. The Wall Street Journal acts like it happened yesterday. What morons.
So it was quiet during the pandemic. It came back with the rest of New York by early 2021 and was bustling by the summer of 2021.
Earth to Wall Street Journal: 2021 was two years ago!
Hamas takes notes.
I was in Times Square for a play recently. Not buying it. It was an improvement over a year ago when people were shooting drugs openly as cops strolled past them. But that’s a pretty low bar to show an improvement Homeless, whackos,criminals and Mexican flags seemed to be all over.
I was there in August. It was jam packed with people.
Hamas says just wait. We’re coming NY.
Foreign travelers read pieces like this and visit the city—and then find out what is really happening the hard way.
Yup—the sheeple are grazing....
Biden is a health hazard for American.
Bustling with illegal alien invaders, not tourists spending money.
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