[Clemenza]

Actually, the main trend of the Bloomberg administration has been the lifting of building codes to build more high rises in places like Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, the influx of transplants from flyover country who make the city seem more generic, to say nothing of the chain stores that are turning a certain island into Mallhattan.

BTW: The homeless are back!

[durasell]

influx of transplants from flyover country who...

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These are the children from the richest families of small to medium-sized towns. Basically they left for college and never returned home to the family car dealership, funeral parlor or small manufacturing concern. A couple of things about them:

A) They are Corcoran realtor’s dream. No idea how much something costs, except that it’s “expensive” and that their parents want them in a “safe” building.

B)They’ve never seen NYC take a turn downward, i.e. 91/92.
They’re in for a surprise.

C)They ain’t wising up to the ways of the big city as quickly as they should if they want to survive.