Remember when people used to complain that Giuliani and Bloomberg had cleaned things up too much and the city was no longer "gritty"? Good times, good times.
As a born and raised New Yorker, I'm old enough to remember the dark ages of the '80s and early '90s, and believe me, things were even worse. A quick search online bears this out: in 1990, there were 2,245 murders in NYC, compared to 386 in 2023. And it wasn't just violent crime. Aggressive panhandling on the subways, garbage everywhere, public parks taken over by drug pushers. Believe me, people were pretty demoralized. It's horrible to see my city declining again after an era of constructive improvement. The white pill: if we did it before, we can do it again!
"New York is not America. East of the Appalachians, it is still Europe. West of the Alleghenies, in the Middle-West, is where America begins"- Ralph Waldo Emerson
AHHHHH HAHAHAHA you get what you deserve NYC. This is obviously better than a “carceral state”, right, East Coast libs? You simply COULDN’T vote for law and order because it would be icky and give you the wrong feels, and yuck orange man bad he’s just too tacky ewww. All decent people should leave our cities post haste. Actually, no, please stay put because we don’t want to catch your crazy brain disease that led to all this in the first place.
I haven't been back in almost 3 years! The last trip I took on the subway and PATH was in June 2021. I remember feeling like the homeless were so much more aggressive. My daughter and I were walking down the street on Lex near 64th street. Some homeless person decided to try to block our way down the sidewalk, trying to push us into the street. When I tried to swerve around him, I noticed that there were so many more like him along the street. I yelled at him to get the fuck out of my way, and he moved. But I felt like that kind of behavior had become more and more common and I was so glad to be done with it.
Thanks for giving an update on the state of things. I hear about how things are going from a few friends who are left there. It's really sad.
When I read - Karenland FUPAZ (Federation of Urban Progressive Autonomous Zone) I spit out my #covfefe. What you’re doing matters, keep up the great work.
03/05/24: "The New York Post because they cover these local stories and have decent opinion writers, except when they get co-opted by the Murdoch Neocon TDS Mind Virus." So you've noticed this as well. As for their op-ed articles, I find @ 85% of them are written by people who are trapped in the intellectual amber forged circa 1991. Their writing style (regardless of subject) can be charitably described as "deceased." My god, journalism is the death of the brain...
Remember when people used to complain that Giuliani and Bloomberg had cleaned things up too much and the city was no longer "gritty"? Good times, good times.
"They would rather die than admit they were wrong".
Pretty much says it all, doesn't it?
We will know we have restored a LEGITIMATE government, city, state and federal, when NYC is once again a bastion of American Exceptionalism.
A death spiral with Adams, Hochul and Biden.
Election integrity…really?
The 1981 movie Escape from New York predicted the future.
__________
It was no prediction.
It was written by a time traveler!
As a born and raised New Yorker, I'm old enough to remember the dark ages of the '80s and early '90s, and believe me, things were even worse. A quick search online bears this out: in 1990, there were 2,245 murders in NYC, compared to 386 in 2023. And it wasn't just violent crime. Aggressive panhandling on the subways, garbage everywhere, public parks taken over by drug pushers. Believe me, people were pretty demoralized. It's horrible to see my city declining again after an era of constructive improvement. The white pill: if we did it before, we can do it again!
"New York is not America. East of the Appalachians, it is still Europe. West of the Alleghenies, in the Middle-West, is where America begins"- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanks.
But can the people supporting this concept of illegal immigration explain why?
Why so they support this?
Why do the NGOs support and transport the illegals into the US ?
This does a great job highlighting why bussing is a good tactic in the short term.
AHHHHH HAHAHAHA you get what you deserve NYC. This is obviously better than a “carceral state”, right, East Coast libs? You simply COULDN’T vote for law and order because it would be icky and give you the wrong feels, and yuck orange man bad he’s just too tacky ewww. All decent people should leave our cities post haste. Actually, no, please stay put because we don’t want to catch your crazy brain disease that led to all this in the first place.
I haven't been back in almost 3 years! The last trip I took on the subway and PATH was in June 2021. I remember feeling like the homeless were so much more aggressive. My daughter and I were walking down the street on Lex near 64th street. Some homeless person decided to try to block our way down the sidewalk, trying to push us into the street. When I tried to swerve around him, I noticed that there were so many more like him along the street. I yelled at him to get the fuck out of my way, and he moved. But I felt like that kind of behavior had become more and more common and I was so glad to be done with it.
Thanks for giving an update on the state of things. I hear about how things are going from a few friends who are left there. It's really sad.
bring back the gladiator games..
Been wondering how it's been going since I left in 2022. I miss plenty but not what I left.
SOLID.
When I read - Karenland FUPAZ (Federation of Urban Progressive Autonomous Zone) I spit out my #covfefe. What you’re doing matters, keep up the great work.
Ck Ur 6. Head on a swivel. Find Fix Finish.
03/05/24: "The New York Post because they cover these local stories and have decent opinion writers, except when they get co-opted by the Murdoch Neocon TDS Mind Virus." So you've noticed this as well. As for their op-ed articles, I find @ 85% of them are written by people who are trapped in the intellectual amber forged circa 1991. Their writing style (regardless of subject) can be charitably described as "deceased." My god, journalism is the death of the brain...
This reads like Stinking Ninth propaganda!
Struggle session for you!
Learn something every day. Just ordered the book Washington’s Immortals.