Posted on 05/23/2024 7:58:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Big Apple is still seeing fewer tourists than before the COVID pandemic amid concerns about crime, according to a report released by the state comptroller’s office Thursday.
The number of people who visited New York City last year — 62.2 million — was about 7% less than the 66.6 million tourists tallied in 2019, Comptroller Tom DiNapoli found.
“Our city and state leaders need to focus on keeping New York a desirable and safe destination for individuals and families from around the world,” DiNapoli said in a statement accompanying the report.
DiNapoli’s analysis cited “high prices” as an issue that could be contributing to the slower recovery, too, including for business or trade conventions.
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“focus on keeping New York a desirable and safe destination”
“KEEPING”??? LOLOLOL....
It’s funny how much lower the crime rate is in NYC than in other cities its size, and far lower than rural areas. If NYC were a state, it would have the 42nd highest rate of violent crime of any state in the nation.
But crime has been very successful in NYC.
Do they give tour bus rides through inner cities in bullet proof bases where the occupants can watch out their bullet scarred wi does gangs shooting it out every fee blocks? Watch as stores get emptied by theives? Watch cars burning in the middle of the road? Watch teenage thugs gang smack elderly women who are trying to cross the road?
All the chick on the view are angry because they have to apply their make-up with a trowel.
NYC is simply too dangerous to visit.
I guess prospective NYC tourists are starting to understand that the “knockout game” is not really a game at all.
> It’s funny how much lower the crime rate is in NYC than in other cities its size… <
Could be that NYC is getting a bad rep. Could be that NYC is shamelessly manipulating the statistics.
On a related note, the Pittsburgh police recently announced that they will not be responding to a whole range of crimes. You call it in, and they take a report over the phone. That’s it.
Evidently folks are going to realize that picking up the phone is a waste of time. Then presto! Crime in Pittsburgh will go down.
Sorry. In my post #9 it should be:
Eventually folks are going to realize that picking up the phone is a waste of time.
New Yorkers display a special brand of narcissism. They think revelling in squalor makes them special.
Good take!
thats why i hated Sienfeld
Whenever I have a meeting in NYC, I go in and leave right after. In times past, I would be there all night.
Because when you're holding onto nothing, that nothing is everything.
I understand the sentiment.
Many people have civic pride about their hometowns.
And especially for older folks, they are thinking of how Brooklyn and Queens were in the past, not the way those places are today.
Talk to any LEO or retired LEO. It does happen in some cities. And mostly in red state cities from what I infer.
Vote Blue Rat…
So your case is that their are murders in New York that people are not reporting.
> So your case is that there are murders in New York that people are not reporting. <
No. I can’t believe that’s happening in the least. But I do suspect that crimes are being downgraded. A felonious assault is downgraded to misdemeanor disorderly conduct. That sort of thing. I’m not blaming individual police officers. It’s pressure from above.
And as I noted, crimes might not be reported because victims no longer think it’s worth the effort. Some folks are mentioning that on local talk shows in my neck of the woods.
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