Really? This is how people see NYC? I see concrete jungle & rat infestation & there’s no nature except for central park in the shadow of skyscrapers with multimillion dollar apartments that nobody lives in.
Wife and I frequent NYC throughout the year.
Manhattan, Brooklyn, canal street for silly popups and shit, museums, etc.
New York is an extremely vibrant, wonderful city with tons of different people and that’s amazing.
I absolutely could not live there, I need my peace and quiet at a certain point.
Neighborhoods are all being torn up by these foreign developers making these condos that just sit empty. They’re razing our neighborhoods for the ultrarich because the city is broke since the pandemic and all our taxes go federally instead of taking care of our own expenses. Mayor Adams sold us off to the highest bidder and changed so many laws to take bribes and for his own benefit. The city also took ownership of so many coop buildings in low income areas in the past few years and resold them for a profit without properly reimbursing the condo/coop owners. This was the worst across the bronx/Harlem.
I don’t understand how so many foreign countries can build here and own here. We used to have laws because the city is sinking, we had a curated skyline ect but now its just who has the biggest bankroll. And then these developers leave with cash in hand once they sell and are not accountable at all when their developments fall apart.
My home doesn’t look like my home any more. There is not one block in my neighborhood that hasnt been torn up. Youll be hard pressed to find even one where they haven’t removed a building to put up one of those empty condos.They come in, buy, even if the building is newish- get permits/pay bribes and tear things up. The biggest punch in the face is when they get affordable housing kickbacks to raffle off a 1 bedroom that you can rent for 3k a month.
We also would always get a lot of people moving here, but post pandemic there has been more new people than ever, which hits harder when you saw how anyone who moved here cause ‘nyc is cool’ abandoned nyc the second the pandemic hit. Everyone loves the city so much, but almost no one stuck around when it got tough. The majority didn’t have loyalty towards the city because they don’t see it as a real home and don’t work towards community and contributing towards making society here better.
And the most hilarious part is watching these people who just moved here begin to complain “it just isn’t the same” and “wow its so gentrified now” like they aren’t a symptom of the problem. You miss all the mom and pop shops you had 3 years ago, but you snubbed the buildings we had and got something in a new development that had originally torn up a dozen mom and pop shops. Now you’re bitter that it kept happening.
Nyc is nice. But the soul is slowly being erased. They pushed us out. Read the graffiti in Harlem lately, this is the general sentiment.
When they push us out, where will we go?
Well, that’s because you actually live there
Me when I visited Tokyo and bought a fuck ton of hyperrealistic articulated beetle models from the capsule vending machines (spent a couple G’s, no regrets)
“Endless options” mmh they prolly mean of places and stuff— oh wait, it’s violet, makes sense
(Haopy for ya btw)When I read “endless options” I thought you were talking about food, and then I noticed the username and realized what you actually meant 😳
Whenever I’m in NYC I go crazy on dumplings and pork buns because they aren’t from some restaurant wanting $7 per 4 for what I get for $1.50
Trump is still president and Republicans still have Congress. be safe while you’re here
She’s rich she has rights
Do you enjoy the crush of humanity? I remember I really used to before I moved to a smaller city. It has got a lot more diverse though, people who are “townies” are rare. I love to hear their stories about how things have changed. Like some old folks remember when where I live was all farm land.
I do miss that side of things from when I lived in Amsterdam, London and Berlin.
I’ve been maybe 5 or 6 times for a few days but once stayed at my then girlfriend’s place in NYC for a month. She lived in latin harlem.
I vividly recall one of my first mornings there. My then gf asked me to get some bagels and vegetable cream cheese for breakfast. I went outside the apt building and found the first bodega around the corner.
There was a hispanic man with a mustache and a half-unbuttoned shirt leaning behind the counter and displaying an abundance of thick black chest hair. There was a radio on that was describing some kind of sports event in audio quality so bad I couldn’t even tell the language. A few feet in front of the counter, there was a thin middle aged black fellow with a huge grin on his face and sunglasses, just leaning on one of the isles and doing nothing. It didn’t seem like he was listening to the radio or interacting with the other guy in any way. I walked inside, said hi and went to get the bagels. The hispanic man ignored me, but the black dude said “how’s it goin?” in a very slick raspy voice. I was like “hey”. He kept looking at me, smiling, as I went in.
I went looking for the veg cheese but they didn’t seem to have any, so I approached the counter and asked chest hair guy “do you have any vegetable cream cheese?” to which he did not react to or establish eye contact.
The black guy, however asked me “vegetable cream chEESE???”, holding his huge grin, and I’m like “yeah…?”. He then asks me “You a vegetarian?” without losing his smile. I just try to say “n-no…” but before I could finish, he literally yells at me, still grinning: “YA GOTTA EAT SOME MEAT, SON. YA GOTTA EAT SOME MEAT!” he then turns around to counter guy and says “Sheeeeiii” who acknowledges this with eye contact.
Then counter guy just reached out extending his hand without saying anything but clearly conveying he just wanted me to buy what I had and not interact with him in any other way. I just grabbed the regular cream cheese, paid for everything and walked out.
As I was leaving, grin guy says “see ya latah” in his sexy raspy voice.
It was the single greatest New York experience of my entire life.
LaGuardia Community College in Queens has a student body that reports speaking over 200 different languages. Everyone on Earth has a cousin in New York.
POV: OP is a Serial Killer looking for variety not offered in the Midwest
NYC is just the best. My son just played a show up there a month or two back and it was just sooo epic. You can feel the buzz in the air. I wish I could afford to move/live there.
Oh really Nyc is a nice place
I miss my city.
Its got hard, dirty edges everywhere, but it is also one of the friendliest, most fun-loving and kindhearted places you will ever have the privilege of visiting.
Just don’t be on any roads during rush hour when people are at their crankiest and make sure to keep valuables close to your skin when in places like Times Square and you will only have good experiences.
Kind of funny how different people are. I worked in midtown for seven years and I would just go between home and work as quickly as I could on most days because there were too many people around outside for me to feel comfortable. (I lived near the office so that I could avoid taking the subway.) My dog, however, loved the crowds. The thing about living in a twenty story building that allows dogs is that there are enough dogs in the building that the maintenance people have to hose down the sidewalk every day in warm weather and it still smells like dog pee, but that’s a plus for the dogs…
I want to live in NYC so bad. I live pretty close right now and I take a trip there every month or so and I always love it there.
One day we could meet I will be there for Christmas
Maybe. My work ramps up pretty hard during the holiday season. I rarely go during December.
