Posted on 08/10/2020 3:04:58 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The true believers who remain are enthusiastic leftists who justify — or welcome — the dissolution of law and order.
New York City must be one of the few places on earth where chaos nostalgia is widespread. Many were the laments, in the Giuliani-Bloomberg era, that the city was “too sanitized,” “too gentrified,” “too boring,” “anodyne,” “suburban.” Often you’d hear people saying, or declaiming, that their ideal vision of the city was the 1970s–1980s one — oh, for the New York of CBGB, of Lou Reed, of the Tompkins Square Park riots. Occasionally people would sneeringly express revulsion that the sidewalks were teeming with strollers. What have we done, we’ve made this place safe enough for babies! And yet the population, which was smaller in 1990 than it was in 1940, boomed. More than a million more New Yorkers squeezed in between 1990 and 2010. It was as if a city the size of Austin grew atop the existing city.
On a return visit this weekend to the Upper West Side neighborhood where I’ve lived for more than a quarter of a century, the fear in the air was palpable. The population seemed to be reduced by about half. New Yorkers steer around each other on the sidewalks, some of them walking in the street to avoid passing near a stranger. A lady declined to ride the elevator with me and my children. People are especially terrified of the subway, whose ridership is down 80 percent from normal levels. Friday night, at a time when there would ordinarily be 50 or more people riding on any given car of the 1 train, there were about seven. Downtown was morose, grim, broken. Graffiti (the anarchists’ symbol, “ACAB” for “All Cops Are Bastards”) was much in evidence.
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Tsk, tsk. That’s your white privilege talking there, that expectation of personal safety.
We need to make sure no federal money goes to New York, especially New York City.
Maybe it could go there if there were strict strings attached, calling for law and order.
Those who vote for such nonsense need to feel the consequences of their actions.
I worked in NYC starting in the late 70’s and it was a dump.
I stopped working there in the late 80’s and it was still a dump. New Yorkers just seem to like it that way. Go figure.
I used to watch nicely dressed New Yorker’s stick their hands into filthy trash cans on the street to pull out newspapers and read them. That never ceased to amaze me.
That explains why they think that the New York Times is actually journalism.
I wouldn’t go near a trash can when I worked in NYC. And yet I used to see nicely dressed men and women sticking their hands in those filthy things just to pull out a newspaper. It was amazing on one hand and disgusting on another.
How is NY City going to pay for its free loaders staying in NY City’s luxury hotels, free for them:
Ken Mahoney, the founder of the Wall Street firm Mahoney Asset Management, anticipates that the hotel endeavor will cost anywhere between $250-500 million over the next six months alone. And if FEMA chooses not to extend its contract beyond October, such an expense would simply not be sustainable for city dwellers.
American taxpayers footing NYC’s bill to house the homeless in boutique hotels:
Many fear that housing more than 13,000 homeless New Yorkers in single-room, deluxe hotels will ‘bankrupt’ the city.
Glad I’m not there. I lived there in the 70s and it was a time you walked down the street as if you lived in Calcutta, looking over your shoulder making sure you were not about to be mugged. Going to bed at night with one ear out for someone breaking in through your window, which did happen to me and thankfully I got out into the hall and asked a neighbor (male) too save me.
To me it was amazing how fast the City could flip from good to awful.
The city was all cleaned up, the bums were some place else. It was like a fairy tale, the way we treated. Basically no one would take our money, the citizens saw the Navy Uniform and we treated great.
Flash forward to 1967, there was a garbage strike in the City, and the city smelled and the people had reverted back to New Yorkers.
An rn friend, my wife knew and hand worked with and her Marine Nam Combat wounded vet husband lived in a huge NYC flat, invited us up with our kids to spend a weekend.
He told us not to drive and take the train from NJ and he would meet us at the station. He did and we took a corporate limo to his apartment bldg. He whispered not to say anything and not to ask ?’s in front of the kids. NYC was back to the old NYC.
For the entire visit our host was like he was on watch in Nam. His tough inner city wife was looking around and over her shoulder if we went out of the bldg.
We enjoyed the visit and were glad to get back on the train to head home. Our oldest son 5 years old at that time on the train ride back, said he was uncomfortable in the city,
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