Post Pandemic comparisons. Rent, entertainment, tourists?
New York City - What is it like in 2023
by Anonymous | reply 600 | May 21, 2024 12:56 PM |
Rent - high. Landlords warehousing apartments to keep the prices up. Entertainment - back to what it used to be in quality/quantity. Not as lucrative because boomers are staying home. Tourists are coming back but not from China and that does hurt the economy somewhat.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 19, 2023 2:16 PM |
Back to the Future
Box office for most Broadway shows last week wilted a bit as June’s Tony glow gave way to plain old New York summer heat, though a couple newcomers were among the handful bucking the downward trend, one very impressively so.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 19, 2023 4:55 PM |
Racist mayor.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 19, 2023 8:17 PM |
Plenty of available office space available but not enough shelters
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 25, 2023 9:48 PM |
The tourism is basically back to pre-pandemic levels. However many companies still have their office workers either working remotely or doing a hybrid of 2-3 days a week from the office. This significant drop of in-person office workers has had a big impact on many of the local business who for decades relied on the business crowd as their steady customers.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 26, 2023 5:34 PM |
-Many streets and neighborhoods feel MT and not just due to people being away for the summer.
-The restaurants along 7th Avenue south are empty as is 8th Ave in Chelsea.
- Many businesses are boarded up as there isn't enough foot traffic.
-Douglas Elliman for lease signs are everywhere.
-Times Square seems to be busy with tourists
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 26, 2023 7:18 PM |
Overrun with RATS
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 26, 2023 7:25 PM |
The cranes are flying. What goes up must come down.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 28, 2023 3:46 AM |
So the East Side Sauna made it through the pandemic (NYC's only remaining gay bathhouse?) The West Side Sauna did shutter for good a couple years ago?
Are those Turkish, or is it Russian, steam baths still open? Some had gay action?
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 28, 2023 6:45 AM |
It's hard to make a living especially for small business owners, MTA workers and cabbies
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 28, 2023 5:16 PM |
Rich Park Slopers love this stuff, R17. Likely the mother of those girls is reassuring them that they asked for it by being privileged, and that they should hope the attacker is not caught, because that would just compound the systemic injustice that they are all guilty of.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 28, 2023 5:44 PM |
They're all pretty much dead and were even before the pandemic. Dick's in the EV is apparently still a thing though.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 28, 2023 6:43 PM |
There seem to be more pigeons on the Upper West Side and they’re even more stupid now than they’ve ever been. I saw a bunch get mowed down by a car last night because some wouldn’t fly out of the way fast enough. I wonder if the ones who consistently fed them are dying off. I would think the wildfire smoke from Canada is affecting them and a lot will end up dead from ingesting it over time.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 28, 2023 6:51 PM |
[Quote] So the East Side Sauna made it through the pandemic (NYC's only remaining gay bathhouse?) The West Side Sauna did shutter for good a couple years ago? Are those Turkish, or is it Russian, steam baths still open? Some had gay action?
They're all pretty much dead R15 and were even before the pandemic. Dick's in the EV is apparently still a thing though.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 28, 2023 7:29 PM |
All of the storefronts that were empty during Covid are now smoke shops.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 28, 2023 7:56 PM |
So many restaurants and chains are leaving/closing
"Three years after New York’s first indoor dining shutdown, restaurants continue to close due to the lasting financial impacts of the pandemic. At least 4,500 food businesses have shuttered since March 2020. Since it’s difficult to track closings in real-time, experts say that number is likely much higher — and could take years to fully assess."
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 29, 2023 3:23 AM |
Can anyone compare its safety compared to Chicago? I’ve heard by some measures it’s safer in NYC, but that stuff gets skewed depending on who’s pushing the argument.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 29, 2023 3:28 AM |
Not possible R25 as both cities like Philly have become so violent.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 29, 2023 1:09 PM |
Just doing my job
"An NYPD traffic agent was pummeled in Hell's Kitchen on Thursday afternoon by an attacker who remained at large Friday, police said. The traffic agent was on duty near W. 47th Street and 11th Avenue at 3:20 p.m. when someone walked up and punched him repeatedly, according to police."
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 29, 2023 1:41 PM |
I'm glad the city was able to arrange to use the Roosevelt Hotel which was shuttered in 2021 after almost 100 years.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 31, 2023 1:29 AM |
it's becoming more and more like Jules Feiffer's Little Murders
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 31, 2023 8:26 PM |
'NY is the safest big city in America'-Eric Adams 7-31-23
comforting to know that
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 31, 2023 10:21 PM |
On the bright side, I've seen some of the hottest young cops on the streets. The thick New York accents makes them even hotter.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 2, 2023 6:19 AM |
^ hawt
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 2, 2023 6:23 AM |
R37, Midtown is a "good neighborhood"? Oh, dear...
by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 4, 2023 8:42 PM |
WAS!
by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 4, 2023 9:09 PM |
Wait! I thought Chicago was worse!
🙄
There has always been crime and there always will be. Get over yourselves.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 4, 2023 9:15 PM |
[Quote]There has always been crime and there always will be.
Now there's an original thought.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 4, 2023 9:25 PM |
Thank you DLers for filling me in on local news broadcasts, which, like most educated sane people, I would never watch
by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 4, 2023 9:39 PM |
It’s fine OP. The rents are horribly high, but beyond that - whatever. Some dumb kids crowded Union square today for free PlayStations and the NYPD broke it up and no one was injured. I’m on the subway now to go down there to see a movie. Everything is running normally and everyone is quiet and on their phones.
I’ve lived here for 21 years. Including during the pandemic. I’ll never understand the posters anywho love to shit on NYC and pretend like it’s some post apocalyptic war zone 🙄
by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 4, 2023 10:01 PM |
Totally fine here. There's 9 million people here so there's going to be bad shit that happens (not to minimize it for the prime affected) but I've been here all my life and this city is NOT a dangerous place. At least no more dangerous than any other major city as long as you don't act like an idiot, stumble around drunk, or start problems yourself.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 4, 2023 10:15 PM |
[Quote] s you don't act like an idiot, stumble around drunk, or start problems yourself.
ever hear of random, unprovoked attacks R48?
by Anonymous | reply 49 | August 4, 2023 10:25 PM |
R40 R46 That would explain why all the subway lines had significant disruptions and delays for this evenings rush all attributed to police activity at Union Square.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 4, 2023 11:47 PM |
[quote]I’ve lived here for 21 years. Including during the pandemic. I’ll never understand the posters anywho love to shit on NYC and pretend like it’s some post apocalyptic war zone 🙄
It's the same thing re London, where I live - the rest of the country seem to think it's like living in Armageddon.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | August 5, 2023 2:02 AM |
[Quote] I’ve lived here for 21 years. Including during the pandemic. I’ll never understand the posters anywho love to shit on NYC and pretend like it’s some post apocalyptic war zone 🙄
more like a third world country I'd say
by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 5, 2023 2:19 AM |
[Quote] I’ve lived here for 21 years. Including during the pandemic.
looking back the pandemic was a halcyon period for NYC. The streets were quiet, clean and uncrowded. There was so little vehicular traffic you could bike ride on 14th Street like it was Central Park. Parking was no problem and crime was practically non existent and the subways were finally cleaned.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 5, 2023 4:06 AM |
R55 You are omitting the fact that during the pandemic lockdown more people became homeless and a lot of them were tasking over the public spaces and subways.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 5, 2023 4:30 PM |
[quote] looking back the pandemic was a halcyon period for NYC. The streets were quiet, clean and uncrowded. There was so little vehicular traffic you could bike ride on 14th Street like it was Central Park. Parking was no problem and crime was practically non existent and the subways were finally cleaned.
Just don't pay attention to all those pesky corpses piling up in the morgues!
by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 5, 2023 5:36 PM |
R58 I felt safer on the street then than now. It was indoors and on subways and elevators where Covid was most likely to spread. And for a period the subways were closed at midnight and no one including the homeless were' tasking' over the subways R56
by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 5, 2023 6:04 PM |
and don't forget how the Emmy-winning "COVID Governor" mishandled resources
by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 5, 2023 6:06 PM |
[Quote] You are omitting the fact that during the pandemic lockdown more people became homeless and a lot of them were tasking over the public spaces and subways
I think your forgetting something R56
by Anonymous | reply 62 | August 5, 2023 6:47 PM |
and don't forget The Lucerne one of several hotels used as homeless shelters
by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 5, 2023 7:12 PM |
[quote]and don't forget The Lucerne one of several hotels used as homeless shelters
Are you kidding? Us gurls had plenty to say about it.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 5, 2023 7:26 PM |
the gurls on the UWS and Hell's Kitchen certainly had a lot to say
by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 5, 2023 8:04 PM |
[Quote] as long as you don't act like an idiot, stumble around drunk, or start problems yourself.
and as long as your not Asian
by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 5, 2023 9:25 PM |
OP Posting from Mee Maw's basement in Mound La. yet again.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 5, 2023 11:22 PM |
“New York City is definitely deteriorating, the quality of life and the quality of services,” said Paulson, who’s still a city resident. "
When the wealthy have had it with NYC . . .
by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 8, 2023 2:47 AM |
[quote]“I talked to 22-23 people that moved to Florida,” said Howard Lorber, chairman of Douglas Elliman Realty. “Every one of them had a big apartment or a townhouse in New York — and not one of them sold. So I have a view that New York City is going to become the number one second-home market to the world.”
So that's the problem with Florida. Too many fucking New York transplants!
by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 8, 2023 1:30 PM |
Right now, up to an estimated 1,000 migrants arrive in New York City every day. Officials say the shelter system is becoming overwhelmed and resources are running thin.
Alone in a new country with young children and no access to work, migrant mothers told CBS News they're worried about the food available for their families in the New York City shelters. CBS News
on its way to becoming a third world country. A small population of extreme wealth along with . . .
by Anonymous | reply 72 | August 18, 2023 9:42 PM |
I live in NYC and it's a fucking shithole. Born and raised here and can't wait to leave. It happened so fast too. It was tolerable before Covid but not anymore. Sat away.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | August 19, 2023 12:09 AM |
No permits or background checks needed to carry knives
by Anonymous | reply 74 | August 19, 2023 5:54 PM |
Flyover queen thread.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | August 26, 2023 1:10 PM |
One of the most extraordinary places to live on earth. Remains one of the hotbeds of human talent, creativity, and vital human behavior. It’s not for the weak minded or timid hearted. It’s a ways changing and evolving. In general it’s pretty tolerant and open- live and let live. I think I am lucky as hell to live in NYC- never take it for granted. It’s also a tough place to live economically- it’s biggest limitation.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | August 27, 2023 1:53 AM |
[Quote] Remains one of the hotbeds of human talent, creativity, and vital human behavior.
Was I'm afraid.
Where today in NY is the equivalent of Warhol, Spike Lee, Basquiat, Lichtenstein, Donna Karan, Fran Lebowitz, Tommy Hilfiger, Candace Bushnell, Mapplethorpe, John Patrick Shanley, Scorsese, Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Vera Wang, Keith Haring . . .
by Anonymous | reply 78 | August 27, 2023 5:28 AM |
Few artists exist in Manhattan today. The primary reason for all the past creativity was that people from all over the US would come to NYC; writers, artists, musicians, designers, etc.; all reside in neighborhoods where they could afford and congregate amongst themselves organically. All of that was basically eliminated because of the undue money and corporate influence of the mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg which changed the zoning and brought in venture capitalists that made almost every neighborhood unaffordable at a breakneck pace. Gentrification always existed in NYC but the changes were natural, today they are by unmatchable corporate forces, causing hyper gentrification.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | August 27, 2023 12:58 PM |
[quote]Flyover queen thread.
Seems like most of the responses are coming from New Yorkers.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | August 27, 2023 1:23 PM |
[quote]It’s also a tough place to live economically- it’s biggest limitation.
After the challenges of grammar.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | August 27, 2023 1:24 PM |
[quote]Flyover queen thread.
[quote]Seems like most of the responses are coming from New Yorkers.—truth hurts?
You're both incorrect, r80 and r76. If you ignoredar r78, you'll find that almost 50 posts, well over half of this thread, come from the same poster, red-lined troll brandonjoseph, who also used to proudly sign as FormerNewYorker. He claims to live in Weehawken.
He almost always shows up in NYC related threads, posting the most gruesome NY Post articles that he can find. Occasionally he will post about his youth in the East Village. He's also fond of childish insults, some of which will surely follow this post.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | August 27, 2023 3:30 PM |
Where else have you lived R77?
by Anonymous | reply 83 | August 27, 2023 5:02 PM |
Bwahahaha!
Beware, r77. R83 is also FormerNewYorker. Know that before you go down that rabbit hole.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | August 27, 2023 5:37 PM |
Agree with r77. Very happy to live here. Wish the rent wasn’t so high, but apparently that’s an issue all over the country.
Will never understand the DL fascination with hating on NYC.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | August 27, 2023 5:45 PM |
R85 people hate what NY has become
by Anonymous | reply 86 | August 27, 2023 5:48 PM |
R86 is FormerNewYorker again, r85.
He has now formally posted at least 50 out of 86 posts on this thread. If we all stop responding to him, he will probably revert to posting back to back crime posts to himself, as is his wont.
It's a beautiful day in NYC. I'm off to enjoy it. I hope you all have a great Labor day!
by Anonymous | reply 87 | August 27, 2023 6:11 PM |
R86. Just because you have no money? No job skills ? (Doubt you have a career. So job) it isn’t violence that flung you out. Drugs over rent? Do tell.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | August 27, 2023 7:14 PM |
[quote]Will never understand the DL fascination with hating on NYC.
There isn't, r85, only trolls here to bash big cities in blue states.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | August 27, 2023 7:17 PM |
R88 why aren't you out enjoying the beautiful day in NY? What keeps you inside?
by Anonymous | reply 92 | August 27, 2023 7:29 PM |
R88 Perhaps it's a preference for a cleaner, greener, safer, less crowded, quieter, friendlier environment without homeless and mentally ill people wandering around
by Anonymous | reply 94 | August 27, 2023 8:27 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 95 | August 27, 2023 8:50 PM |
This recently uploaded video, 'The Truth About NYC That Nobody Talks About' , from a NYC native who goes by the moniker Joey the Gypsy and who now lives in Clearwater Fl, discusses a lot about what's wrong with the city now.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | August 28, 2023 12:18 AM |
All of the assholes reared in NYC eventually move to Florida.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | August 28, 2023 12:56 AM |
I was invited by a (MAGA) neighbor to an anti-immigrant protest this coming Thursday. They're setting up some housing near here at Floyd Bennett field for them. It's a huge former airfield which is now federal parkland. I doubt the migrants are going to like it since it's in the middle of nowhere and I don't think there's any buses running in or out. No, I'm not going to the protest.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | August 28, 2023 1:43 AM |
The rat problem in NYC is due to the failure of the sanitation dept to pick up the trash in a timely manner during the pandemic. Sometimes they would skip pick-up date altogether and all the trash on the block would have to wait for the next pickup 4 days later.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | August 28, 2023 1:54 AM |
New Yorkers — including huge majorities of Democrats, Republicans, independents, upstaters and downstaters — overwhelmingly say that the recent influx of migrants to New York is a serious problem for the state,” said Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg.
“However,” he said, “that’s where partisan agreement ends. A plurality of Democrats says that migrants resettling in New York over the last two decades has been a benefit. But a majority of independents and two-thirds of Republicans say that migrant resettlement has been a burden to the state.”
In a recent survey, 82% of New York voters said the migrant influx was serious and 54% called it very serious.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | August 28, 2023 1:58 AM |
Tensions are rising between the New York City mayor’s office and the state and federal governments over how to handle more than 58,000 asylum-seekers now in the city’s care, as the Biden administration resists a quick fix proposed by the state and city.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | August 28, 2023 2:05 AM |
Now we know why they don't talk about it R97
by Anonymous | reply 104 | August 28, 2023 2:13 AM |
I am coming back to NYC in October after a short visit in July. Going to the ballet, opera, and Broadway, and visiting French Consulate.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | August 28, 2023 3:01 AM |
[quote]New Yorkers have had more than enough
Oh honey. Racist LI guidos organized by batshit-crazy Curtis Sliwa aren't New Yorkers.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | August 28, 2023 3:07 AM |
Says you honey!
by Anonymous | reply 107 | August 28, 2023 4:25 AM |
Someone finally listened
The Upper West Side of Manhattan is getting its first two noise cameras following tens of thousands of noise complaints just this year, alone. The cameras will target car and truck noise specifically and hefty fines will be the consequence.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | August 28, 2023 7:52 AM |
Was going to visit this Fall. No thanks. I'll go to the Blue Ridge Mountains instead.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | August 28, 2023 12:49 PM |
(^.^) and miss an opportunity to see Shucked!
by Anonymous | reply 110 | August 28, 2023 5:12 PM |
R110, Shucked was funny not not that great. The second half dragged.
Some Like It Hotnwasnthenbest I've seen this year.
Not R109.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | August 29, 2023 8:10 AM |
New York City - It's like 2022 again, but different.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | August 29, 2023 1:24 PM |
Nice to see there are still some hot guys in NYC but . . .
by Anonymous | reply 113 | August 29, 2023 7:54 PM |
[Quote] New York City - It's like 2022 again, but different.
Yeah, it's a year older
by Anonymous | reply 114 | August 29, 2023 11:25 PM |
A 120 year old water main pipe. Isn't anything built to last anymore?!
by Anonymous | reply 115 | August 30, 2023 1:33 AM |
[Quote] Isn't anything built to last anymore?!
Apparently not.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | August 30, 2023 1:53 AM |
Citizens resort to smoking pot in public and interfering with major events. It must be the only way they can cope with living in the city.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | August 30, 2023 1:00 PM |
Walk along 8th Avenue in midtown between 14th and 32nd street and while many businesses are shuttered weed shops are popping up on every block. The governor promises to crack down on illegal shops, but the city has more serious problems.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | August 30, 2023 5:01 PM |
New Yorkers helped Biden get elected
The New York mayor and governor have asked for increased federal support to handle migrants in the state. Now in the first response, Biden administration officials are putting the responsibility back on the city and state. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez explains the proposed solutions.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | August 30, 2023 6:19 PM |
Leaping from tall buildings has become a trend
by Anonymous | reply 124 | September 2, 2023 8:22 PM |
(^.^) and this is why it has become so common
by Anonymous | reply 126 | September 6, 2023 5:53 PM |
Pushing strangers onto the subway tracks has become an unfortunate trend
by Anonymous | reply 127 | September 12, 2023 6:09 PM |
Between assaults, the homeless and migrants it seems to be headed for a derailment
by Anonymous | reply 128 | September 13, 2023 4:33 PM |
I left NYC for two years but nothing has changed me now I’ve been back for a year. I take the subway to and from work everyday and don’t feel unsafe. I’ve seen some good theater. Joined a papering service and seen some great stuff for $4.50 / ticket. I’ve seen BTTF: The Musical twice by lottery and love it. And my dog loves it here. We have a very dog friendly neighborhood.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | September 13, 2023 5:26 PM |
changed FOR me
by Anonymous | reply 131 | September 13, 2023 5:26 PM |
The NYPD abandoned the subway system even before the pandemic lockdown. They only make their occasional cameo appearances when there is a major incident like a death. I ride the subway every day. I can count the fingers on my one hand of how many times I have seen an actual police officer on a train in the last 3 years.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | September 13, 2023 5:51 PM |
My colleagues who travel to work by subway are concerned and say they feel unsafe which is understandable since random unprovoked attacks have become so common. When I lived in NY (88-2006] I would take the subway at night to Brooklyn to see my friends or go to BAM but I wouldn't do that now. There also seems to be an increase in vehicular accidents involving pedestrians and there are so many more Citi bikes, E-bikes and scooters on the streets that never yield to pedestrians.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | September 13, 2023 8:47 PM |
Having more cyclists in NYC was a good idea, but the electric scooters and mopeds are a clear danger to pedestrians because they are not regulated and the drivers are reckless. I still ride the subway almost daily and never had a real issue.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | September 13, 2023 9:07 PM |
I commute to work by subway daily. I see police on the platforms very often (this is in Manhattan below 125th street though). I feel safe commuting by subway. I wouldn’t take the subway after 10pm though.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | September 14, 2023 12:19 AM |
There’s been a marked increase of Citi Bike and e-scooter collisions since 2006 when, incidentally, Citi Bikes and e-scooters didn’t exist.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | September 14, 2023 12:37 AM |
I watched a thing recently on Instagram where an ICU nurse was saying that those scooters are so fucking dangerous and landing so many people in the hospital with extremely serious injuries. She said young people are coming to the ICU with spinal cord injuries and traumatic brain injuries because of scooter accidents. A ton of nurses commented on the post saying they are seeing the exact same thing and the scooters should be outlawed.
They are terrible. And none of these fools have helmets on when they are flying around on them.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | September 14, 2023 12:42 AM |
I used to live in New York City
Everything there was dark and dirty
Outside my window was a steeple
With a clock that always said twelve-thirty
by Anonymous | reply 138 | September 14, 2023 1:50 AM |
R130 you may be in the same sea but you're not in the same boat
by Anonymous | reply 139 | September 14, 2023 6:00 AM |
[Quote] There’s been a marked increase of Citi Bike and e-scooter collisions since 2006 when, incidentally, Citi Bikes and e-scooters didn’t exist.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | September 14, 2023 8:10 PM |
Police marveled at the brazenness - the outright disregard for humanity at the center of a beef between members of rival gangs in broad daylight.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | September 15, 2023 3:46 AM |
Assaults on cops are not really a big deal anymore. Body cam shows the man break the POs nose
by Anonymous | reply 142 | September 15, 2023 4:06 AM |
R142 It's shit like this that emboldens criminals to act with impunity.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | September 15, 2023 1:10 PM |
Good for the environment but at what cost? I notice that cyclists very often don't use the bike lanes and when they do, they often ignore the directional arrows in the lane.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | September 15, 2023 3:35 PM |
Too many various vehicles on the road and too little regulation. For one thing cyclists should be required to have lights on their bikes.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | September 16, 2023 4:07 AM |
PS according to ABC 7 the bike driver was going in the wrong direction not unlike NYC
by Anonymous | reply 146 | September 16, 2023 4:40 AM |
Though it's still one of the safest large cities the assaults are so hit or miss and senseless and occur in all Manhattan neighborhoods
by Anonymous | reply 147 | September 18, 2023 7:42 PM |
This is what the once touted Greatest City in the World has become
by Anonymous | reply 149 | September 27, 2023 5:04 PM |
The streets are more dangerous than I ever remember
by Anonymous | reply 150 | September 27, 2023 8:09 PM |
about time. Pedestrians and drivers hate bike riders. They never stop, ride in all directions, are unregulated and not held accountable.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | September 28, 2023 4:05 AM |
I love NYC and I’ve forever known it’s not the cleanest city in the world, and that’s just part of living here. However, I’ve noticed most recently, as I’m fostering a dog new to the city, that the amount of trash left on the street is more horrifying than in the last ten years. I am hyper vigilant walking the dog, not on my phone, keeping a short leash, and I’ve still had to pry THREE chicken wing bones from his mouth in the last 24 hrs. Because of this additional hyper awareness now that a dog is in my care - chicken wing bones, cigarette butts and joints galore, used drug needles, dirty clothes, garbage and more garbage, remnants of food everywhere. What’s worse is I actually am talking about an area LINED with garbage cans. I am sorry if I’m ranting but this is disgusting and poses such a danger to pets and children, and really people in general. There are people with mental illness and addiction problems vomiting and bleeding and overdosing on a daily basis right in front of my apartment - on the one hand, it is so much worse than I have seen it in the past ten years as a safety and sanitation issue, but on the other hand, who is helping these people running up and down the streets in bare feet with open wounds barely conscious of their own safety??? Are we really doing anything to make things better around here? Sorry, I am so frustrated. My parents are both city kids so I’m no stranger to this. But you’d think we’d have figured something out by now. Do we keep sitting around saying that’s the way it is or do we actually somewhere start doing something? And I don’t want to hear some snarky comment like, keep voting democrat. Politics are a joke, I don’t care who you support. We need to stop supporting corrupt politicians at some point who don’t care about anything except getting in and staying in office and come together as a community and take matters into our own hands, because politicians don’t live the lives we live and see what we see. Find me a politician who travels without security and takes the subway everyday and sees what we see and I’ll give ‘em my vote.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | September 29, 2023 2:51 AM |
Don't worry. These assailants will be out the next day.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | October 15, 2023 3:39 PM |
It's still one of the safest big cities in the US
by Anonymous | reply 159 | October 20, 2023 8:16 PM |
R2 Is that a Subway ad, or a subway ad?
by Anonymous | reply 160 | October 20, 2023 8:37 PM |
This is a subway. Enter at your own peril.
CBS New York Police seek woman accused of kicking subway rider in face, hurling racial slurs in Queens
by Anonymous | reply 161 | October 22, 2023 10:24 PM |
It's quickly losing its edge. So much vacant office space that will probably be turned into apartments for migrants.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | October 30, 2023 5:13 PM |
NYC is an equal opportunity town, with a genuine concern with diversity - which group do we hate this month?
by Anonymous | reply 167 | November 1, 2023 7:13 PM |
Chicago is a better “big city” with hotter gay men.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | November 1, 2023 9:00 PM |
East Side West Side assaults are all around town
MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — A woman briefly blacked out after being strangled from behind on a Manhattan street, according to the NYPD.
The victim, 29, was walking near Houston Street and Avenue D in the East Village when a man came up from behind and strangled her at around 4:10 a.m. on Oct. 22, police said.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | November 2, 2023 3:56 AM |
Walking around at 4 AM on Avenue D?
I recall us locals had the following thoughts on where you are in Alphabet City on the Lower East Side:
Avenue A, you're Okay Avenue B, you're Brave Avenue C, you're Crazy Avenue D, you're Dead.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | November 2, 2023 11:09 AM |
The city is filled with tens of thousands of extra tourists right now—family groups, here to enjoy the sites ahead of their family member(s) running in Sunday’s marathon. It’s a great vibe.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | November 2, 2023 11:46 AM |
During the pandemic the empty Midtown Manhattan streets were eerie and sad. But this year tourism appears to be back to pre-pandemic numbers. The last two weeks it's a nuisance trying to walk around with so many tourist around, and this is before the holiday spike, which is from Thanksgiving week to New Years week.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | November 2, 2023 11:52 AM |
So, R173, do what New Yorkers do to display welcome - stab them.
by Anonymous | reply 174 | November 2, 2023 1:31 PM |
Wow —that’s flyover quality humor. How about something actually funny, is that too much to ask?
From you I’d say yes.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | November 2, 2023 1:52 PM |
I've lived in NYC for 28 years. I love it. I live on a rather nice block in midtown and have not noticed any uptick in crime. No one's throwing up in front of my building. I also have a dog and she loves it here. She knows where she lives. Twice, while walking her, she has slipped out of her leash blocks away from home but there was nothing to worry about. She ran right home and waited for the doorman. No joke. No problems with aforementioned chicken wing bones. I also take the subway to and from work everyday and haven't witnessed any crime.
by Anonymous | reply 176 | November 2, 2023 4:51 PM |
I'd be more scared working as a teacher in Omaha or Little Rock.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | November 2, 2023 4:53 PM |
Oh I forgot to mention the marathon. It's a fun week in town. I've run it twice and will be cheering on a friend this year. It's a blast.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | November 2, 2023 5:04 PM |
and I don't know anyone who died from COVID and I never got sick, but I was still concerned, aware and cautious. R176
by Anonymous | reply 179 | November 2, 2023 5:40 PM |
R175. I guess truth hurts, but not as much as getting sucker-punched, stabbed, or shot.
by Anonymous | reply 180 | November 2, 2023 5:47 PM |
much ado about nothing. it's saint louis, Memphis and Peoria that are rotting from the inside out
no one needs to worry about NYC
by Anonymous | reply 183 | November 2, 2023 6:19 PM |
[Quote] I'd be more scared working as a teacher in Omaha or Little Rock.
or being a high school student in NY
by Anonymous | reply 184 | November 2, 2023 6:22 PM |
Straphanger Shoved onto Tracks in Random NYC Subway Attack, Police Say
This is why my coworkers who take the subway to midtown feel unsafe.
by Anonymous | reply 186 | November 2, 2023 6:27 PM |
Do you post this shit everywhere 24-7? Maybe YOU are the crime source.
by Anonymous | reply 188 | November 2, 2023 7:31 PM |
Wasn't anywhere near Brooklyn. I have witnesses R188
by Anonymous | reply 190 | November 2, 2023 10:00 PM |
I work at 28th and Madison but no it's not me.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | November 2, 2023 10:02 PM |
Zzzz zzzz
Get some rest, or help.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | November 2, 2023 10:25 PM |
Get 8 hours sleep R193 Thanks. You sound easily triggered. You must be a New Yorker.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | November 2, 2023 10:33 PM |
I noticed the last two weeks that the tourist crowd numbers are what one normally sees during the holiday season. Can anyone help explain this phenomena?
by Anonymous | reply 195 | November 3, 2023 12:11 AM |
[quote]Do you post this shit everywhere 24-7? Maybe YOU are the crime source.
[quote]Get some rest, or help.
It's a poster known as FormerNewYorker, r188 and r193. Yes, he posts a LOT, mostly about crime in NYC. Lives in Weehawken, yearns for his youth in the East Village in the 80s-90s. Since he can't have that, he vilifies the NYC of today.
In some older threads, he has been known to post up to 40 posts back to back. Repetitive, full of childish insults. "Meth, methinks" is a common phrase. "You sound easily triggered. You must be a New Yorker" is another
No one ever posts NYC threads anymore, because he will rush to infest it. I haven't bothered, but if you ignoredar him, I'd bet that 50 to 30% of this thread is his. Possibly more. It's an obsession.
He used to be authenticated as brandonjoseph before he got redlined as a troll.
by Anonymous | reply 196 | November 3, 2023 1:30 AM |
Yep. Just checked.
Former New Yorker aka FNY aka Brandonjoseph has posted 114 times in this thread - well over half of it - and that isn't counting any other devices that he might be using.
It's an illness. Too bad. I'd love to post about goings on in NYC, but he makes it impossible.
He posts so often that blocking him slows scrolling down to a crawl - and I don't block posters anyway - so I just avoid NYC threads.
by Anonymous | reply 197 | November 3, 2023 1:40 AM |
[Quote] I noticed the last two weeks that the tourist crowd numbers are what one normally sees during the holiday season. Can anyone help explain this phenomena?
Maybe they were migrants, protestors people here for the marathon or commuters . . . How did you know they were tourists?
by Anonymous | reply 198 | November 3, 2023 6:45 AM |
Trust me, as a New Yorker, I know who is a tourist on sight 90% of the times.
by Anonymous | reply 199 | November 3, 2023 11:48 AM |
Another pedestrian killed by 2 vehicles. WTF!
by Anonymous | reply 201 | November 3, 2023 4:33 PM |
I wonder how the creep knew they were lesbians?
by Anonymous | reply 202 | November 3, 2023 4:44 PM |
r203 = loser
by Anonymous | reply 204 | November 3, 2023 4:56 PM |
(^.^) that term could apply to New Yorkers as the city is in decline and doesn't take care of its own
by Anonymous | reply 205 | November 3, 2023 5:05 PM |
New Yorkers here's the real problem. Consider yourself warned.
[Quote] He almost always shows up in NYC related threads, posting the most gruesome NY Post articles that he can find. Occasionally he will post about his youth in the East Village. He's also fond of childish insults, some of which will surely follow this post.
[Quote] Beware, r77. R83 is also FormerNewYorker. Know that before you go down that rabbit hole.
[Quote] He has now formally posted at least 50 out of 86 posts on this thread. If we all stop responding to him, he will probably revert to posting back to back crime posts to himself, as is his wont.
[Quote] It's a poster known as FormerNewYorker, r188 and r193. Yes, he posts a LOT, mostly about crime in NYC. Lives in Weehawken, yearns for his youth in the East Village in the 80s-90s. Since he can't have that, he vilifies the NYC of today.
[Quote] In some older threads, he has been known to post up to 40 posts back to back. Repetitive, full of childish insults. "Meth, methinks" is a common phrase. "You sound easily triggered. You must be a New Yorker" is another
[Quote] No one ever posts NYC threads anymore, because he will rush to infest it. I haven't bothered, but if you ignoredar him, I'd bet that 50 to 30% of this thread is his. Possibly more. It's an obsession.
[Quote] Former New Yorker aka FNY aka Brandonjoseph has posted 114 times in this thread - well over half of it - and that isn't counting any other devices that he might be using.
by Anonymous | reply 206 | November 3, 2023 8:26 PM |
Areas of the city still feel empty post Covid. Businesses that relied on commuters are hurting.
A researcher for the study suggested the societal shift to remote office work has caused a dramatic drop in foot traffic in Gotham’s business districts.
by Anonymous | reply 207 | November 5, 2023 6:55 PM |
The rise of vicious unprovoked attacks may also factor into the decrease of foot traffic in NY
by Anonymous | reply 208 | November 5, 2023 10:13 PM |
All of the mentally ill need to be shipped to a deserted island. Survival of the craziest.
by Anonymous | reply 209 | November 5, 2023 10:42 PM |
(^.^) sounds like a good premise for a reality TV show.
by Anonymous | reply 210 | November 5, 2023 11:18 PM |
[quote]All of the mentally ill need to be shipped to a deserted island.
If that were done, how many people would be left in the city?
by Anonymous | reply 211 | November 6, 2023 1:20 AM |
Good news. They don't share the road or follow the rules of the road.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | November 6, 2023 10:21 PM |
Good for bystander. Too bad he missed
by Anonymous | reply 214 | November 9, 2023 3:45 AM |
R179- First of all, two of my close friends died of COVID and I got COVID as well. The death per capita by COVID is a lot higher than death per capita in NYC which is very low.
R184- That was one kid slashing one other kid. The teacher wasn't harmed. There has never been a mass shooting at a school in NYC.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | November 10, 2023 3:15 PM |
I meant crime per capita in NYC.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | November 10, 2023 3:16 PM |
Quote] That was one kid slashing one other kid. The teacher wasn't harmed. There has never been a mass shooting at a school in NYC.
The man was randomly stabbed with the tool twice – in the head and face – while seated on a southbound 1 train around 9:40 p.m. at the 59th Street-Columbus Circle subway station, authorities said.
stay in school and avoid he subways, I guess.
by Anonymous | reply 217 | November 10, 2023 4:23 PM |
[Quote] First of all, two of my close friends died of COVID and I got COVID as well. The death per capita by COVID is a lot higher than death per capita in NYC which is very low.
Nonetheless take caution when walking as hit and runs abound.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | November 10, 2023 4:29 PM |
I ride from and to the 59th Street-Columbus station every single day and haven't even witnessed anything like this. Not scared to ride the subway at all.
by Anonymous | reply 219 | November 10, 2023 4:32 PM |
[Quote] That was one kid slashing one other kid. The teacher wasn't harmed. There has never been a mass shooting at a school in NYC.
In a New York minute.
by Anonymous | reply 220 | November 10, 2023 4:33 PM |
My theory is that you have to act crazier than the crazies, and then they'll leave you alone.
by Anonymous | reply 221 | November 10, 2023 4:34 PM |
[Quote] I ride from and to the 59th Street-Columbus station every single day and haven't even witnessed anything like this. Not scared to ride the subway at all.
and I never got Covid but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen. What's your point? It only happens to others?
by Anonymous | reply 222 | November 10, 2023 4:36 PM |
Maybe I do, r221.
by Anonymous | reply 223 | November 10, 2023 4:36 PM |
r218- Do they? How many people out of the 8-10 million people in NYC at any given time get hit? Seems VERY rare to me.
by Anonymous | reply 224 | November 10, 2023 4:38 PM |
The vigilante arrested for opening fire during a robbery attempt in a Manhattan subway station yelled “Get away from her!” at the would-be mugger — just before he pulled a pistol from his backpack and sent a couple rounds flying down the platform, sources said Thursday.
by Anonymous | reply 225 | November 10, 2023 4:41 PM |
[Quote] Seems VERY rare to me.
Define 'very rare'
by Anonymous | reply 226 | November 10, 2023 4:45 PM |
You're talking to the obsessed FormerNewYorker, r224. Posting crime stats is most of what he does. He has posted 130 times in this thread.
Well over half of the thread.
You won't get any reasonable conversation out of him.
by Anonymous | reply 227 | November 10, 2023 4:49 PM |
[Quote] First of all, two of my close friends died of COVID and I got COVID as well.
I don't know anyone who died from Covid so I guess it's rare.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | November 10, 2023 4:50 PM |
The electric scooters and mopeds in NY have grown out of control these last 5 or so years. I don't know if the accident was the SUV's fault of the teen's fault, but they have become a serious hazard. When I walk on the sidewalk or cross the street my biggest concern for my safety isn't cars, it's scooters and mopeds.
by Anonymous | reply 230 | November 10, 2023 9:19 PM |
(^.^) See R212 What are the rules of the road for scooters, mopeds and bikes? It's not at all clear.
by Anonymous | reply 231 | November 10, 2023 9:57 PM |
Welcome to Manhattan's newest neighborhood Manhattan West.
by Anonymous | reply 232 | November 11, 2023 5:00 AM |
R232 I find that location totally soul sucking.
by Anonymous | reply 233 | November 11, 2023 1:32 PM |
it's actually a good location situated between 9th and 10th Avenue one block west of Penn Station and Madison Square Garden and just north of Chelsea. It's much more conveniently located than Hudson Yards which is further west and not near anything.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | November 11, 2023 5:16 PM |
Manhattan's first beech:
Gansevoort Peninsula, a 5.5-acre park between Gansevoort Street and Little West 12th Street in the Meatpacking District, opened last month. It's a public beach, sports field, an ecological salt marsh, a dog run, a boardwalk, manicured lawns and a beachfront landing for non-motorized boats. The project took about two years and cost $73 million.
Gansevoort Peninsula in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan has been transformed from a landfill into a 5.5-acre park, complete with a sports field, a salt marsh, a dog run, a boardwalk, manicured lawns, and Manhattan's first public beach.
by Anonymous | reply 235 | November 28, 2023 9:35 PM |
beach (^.^)
by Anonymous | reply 236 | November 28, 2023 9:36 PM |
It’s not a new neighborhood numnut. It’s just a different developer—i.e., not Related. It is contiguous to Hudson Yards. You people believe anything from some dumb PR story.
by Anonymous | reply 237 | November 28, 2023 9:46 PM |
of course, it's not a new neighborhood; it's a new development situated behind the post office. I remember when it was largely a parking lot at 33rd and 9th Who said it was a new neighborhood R237
by Anonymous | reply 238 | November 29, 2023 3:08 AM |
Why so angry R237?
by Anonymous | reply 239 | November 29, 2023 3:12 AM |
R238 see R232 👀
by Anonymous | reply 241 | November 29, 2023 3:35 AM |
[Quote] There’s been a marked increase of Citi Bike and e-scooter collisions since 2006 when, incidentally, Citi Bikes and e-scooters didn’t exist.
R136 you didn't read my post correctly. I used 2006 as a timeline of when I lived in NY not as a timeline for the increase in collisions.
[Quote] My colleagues who travel to work by subway are concerned and say they feel unsafe which is understandable since random unprovoked attacks have become so common. When I lived in NY (88-2006] I would take the subway at night to Brooklyn to see my friends or go to BAM but I wouldn't do that now. There also seems to be an increase in vehicular accidents involving pedestrians and there are so many more Citi bikes, E-bikes and scooters on the streets that never yield to pedestrians.
by Anonymous | reply 242 | December 3, 2023 10:48 PM |
What a pussy R242 the sud way? At night! I might die—
by Anonymous | reply 243 | December 3, 2023 11:05 PM |
those bikes will get you one way or another
As of Nov. 20, the city Fire Department had recorded 243 fires, 124 injuries and 17 deaths so far this year related to the highly flammable lithium-ion batteries, the Daily News previously reported.
by Anonymous | reply 245 | December 4, 2023 5:24 AM |
Ban all bicycles. Bicyclists are assholes.
by Anonymous | reply 246 | December 4, 2023 7:34 AM |
- A 14-year-old boy was stabbed in the neck on a busy Bronx street corner.
by Anonymous | reply 248 | December 17, 2023 3:24 AM |
Two teen boys were hurt in stabbings in the Big Apple Friday — with one attacked during a violent Staten Island robbery and the other knifed twice in Queens, authorities said.
by Anonymous | reply 250 | December 17, 2023 3:29 AM |
A teenager was shot multiple times in a broad-daylight Bronx attack Monday – one of at least three bursts of gun violence in the span of 15 hours in the Big Apple, authorities said.
by Anonymous | reply 251 | December 17, 2023 3:35 AM |
Deliberately caused fires in the subway system, some reports claim this was by pro-H demonstrators. Happened on Christmas Eve in Brooklyn.
E bike batteries are very flammable, throwing them on the 3rd rail is something I hope does not become a thing.
by Anonymous | reply 252 | December 25, 2023 9:29 PM |
Defacto is proving he knows how to google. Meanwhile NYC continues to be the safest large city in the country.
And meanwhile Defacto’s own hometown Pittsburgh still has a crime rate comparable to Chicago — the rates between the two are almost identical — see ranking below.
But Defacto, perma-lying rightwinger (and indeed is there any other kind?) is posting links to suggest otherwise. But the facts don’t lie. New York is barely even on the list, ranked 96 out of 100. Pittsburgh? 62. 😱
by Anonymous | reply 253 | December 25, 2023 9:41 PM |
Those nutjobs on the trains could be just like him.
by Anonymous | reply 255 | December 27, 2023 1:42 AM |
The suspect is known to both MTA police and NYPD as an emotionally disturbed person with 17 prior arrests.
Hutcherson was arrested twice in the last six months. The latest arrest came just last month after Hutcherson threatened someone with a knife.
by Anonymous | reply 256 | December 27, 2023 3:12 AM |
[Quote] Those nutjobs on the trains could be just like him.
by Anonymous | reply 257 | December 27, 2023 6:42 PM |
[Quote] Those nutjobs on the trains could be just like him.
by Anonymous | reply 258 | December 27, 2023 6:48 PM |
The demographics are changing rapidly
More than 7,000 asylum seekers have arrived in New York City in last 2 weeks, mayor's office says
by Anonymous | reply 260 | December 28, 2023 8:10 AM |
Rent!?! Are we children?
by Anonymous | reply 266 | January 2, 2024 4:16 PM |
1.7 is close to nothing as far as earthquakes go.
by Anonymous | reply 268 | January 2, 2024 11:44 PM |
but on Roosevelt Island where the buildings are not built to seismic or earthquake code it was strongly felt and as the saying goes "Earthquakes don't kill people-buildings do" Residents said it felt like a series of small explosions and was felt from Astoria to Roosevelt Island. 911 calls flooded dispatchers with reports of a boom and buildings rocking. A resident of Roosevelt Island said it was so strong that her husband fell out of bed.
by Anonymous | reply 269 | January 3, 2024 12:13 AM |
Police say a 29-year-old man was stabbed in the neck on a subway platform in the Bronx on New Year's Day.
by Anonymous | reply 270 | January 3, 2024 12:39 AM |
[quote] Post Pandemic comparisons. Rent, entertainment, tourists?
Lived in NYC for twenty years now. I've been in a rent- stabilized decent apartment in a multi-unit building in Astoria for the last ten years, so my rent has not increased much more than a few percentage points the last few years. That said every day I see another building being demolished. They're mostly older decrepit standalone houses and are being replaced by these awful ugly monstrosities that look like Soviet prisons. They are all luxury housing but no one seems to be moving in. They are insanely expensive and cheaply built. If I left my current apartment I think I would have a very hard time finding something comparable.
Entertainment... some gay bars have kinda come back, but a lot of people got used to not going out so much during the pandemic and the scenes have changed A LOT. When I first moved to NYC if it was a weekend you HAD to go to some club in Manhattan, but nowadays all of those Manhattan megaclubs are gone and the scene has moved more to the boroughs. Other entertainment... every theater die-hard that I knew (including myself) goes less. It's a combination of pricing and a general shittieness of the offerings.
Tourists, they're still here I guess. I don't know why they come, they could green screen their social media posts from the comfort of their living room.
It's not as much of a danger zone as the media would like you to believe, but there's less people going into offices and going out and the homeless are more aggressive and less hidden. Also independent of NYC it does seem like everyone went a little insane during the pandemic.
There's A LOT empty storefronts and it seems very lazy of our supposedly progressive politicians to keep colluding with the real estate industry to pretend that these storefronts (and office towers) are ever going to come back. In my midtown office building only two lunch spots survived the pandemic. The rest are entirely empty though there are about a dozen food trucks that line up on 6th avenue. It seems insane to me that all these storefronts are empty and someone would rather make fish and chips in a truck but they can't afford the rent and the real estate lobby has made it more profitable to have empty stock than to be reasonable.
There's a ton of chain stores which is something that I fucking hate. NYC used to be all about one-of-a-kind stores and experiences but now blocks look like the food court at a suburban mall.
by Anonymous | reply 272 | January 10, 2024 1:36 AM |
…the real estate lobby has made it more profitable to have empty stock than to be reasonable.
^^ that part is just incorrect—woefully inadequate explanation.
by Anonymous | reply 273 | January 10, 2024 2:00 AM |
If you say so, without any explanation, than it has to be true R273.
by Anonymous | reply 274 | January 10, 2024 2:09 AM |
The other week someone asked me for money in the subway station. Not a homeless person, just a younger guy (late teens maybe?). When I told him that I don't carry cash, he asked if I had CashApp on my phone to send him something that way. First time that's happened to me.
by Anonymous | reply 275 | January 10, 2024 2:15 AM |
R274 lame projection. You made the initial assertion without any reference or citation whatsoever. What did these lobbyists do to keep storefronts empty? Where’s your beef?
by Anonymous | reply 276 | January 10, 2024 2:41 AM |
RATS!
"Some people say it takes a decade in New York City to become a real New Yorker, but I think it takes accidentally kicking a rat while going about your daily business. Please clap — I have done this twice."
by Anonymous | reply 277 | January 10, 2024 4:54 AM |
ANy cruising in the various parks like Central, Fort Tryon and Prospect? I dropped so much cum in those places...
by Anonymous | reply 279 | January 10, 2024 5:02 AM |
R272 Astoria Queens is basically a Plan B version of Williamsburg Brooklyn. Yuppies who have trouble affording Manhattan find it convenient and trendy. The only real sustainable business are the restaurants. Hipsters go there for all the eateries. Most of the construction is by real estate investment LLCs who buy 1-3 family homes, demolish them, replace it with ugly inferior built 6-12 unit multi level buildings. Rents for single bedroom begin at $2,500. Long term residents don't recognize their own neighborhood.
R273 NY State laws allow real estate owners to but vacant stores and a offices down as a loss to unrealized profits and get tax deductions for it. There is a proposed bill still kicking around in the state senate that will impose a commercial vacancy tax for empty units in populated locations, which would effectively negate the tax deduction.
by Anonymous | reply 280 | January 10, 2024 11:39 AM |
R280 there is no tax benefit derived from vacant commercial space, other than reduced income results in lower taxes. You can try to get a property tax assessment lowered based on diminution of value, but that won’t offset the economic loss.
Note that, unless the lease has expired or the tenant has filed bankruptcy and rejected the lease, rent is still due and owing even if the space is not open for business.
The federal tax regs for depreciation of assets, including real estate, are a separate issue altogether.
by Anonymous | reply 282 | January 10, 2024 5:51 PM |
Believe it or not the weight of all the massive buildings in concentrated areas are a contributing factor.
by Anonymous | reply 285 | January 15, 2024 11:34 AM |
Defacto doubling down when schooled shows what children rightwingers are. (It’s not “the trolls,” by the way, it’s one balloon-snouted specimen with a Breitbart agenda.)
Despite his becoming the police blotter for nyc, the numbers at r253 don’t lie. All the most dangerous cities in America are flyover cities like his native Pittsburgh. NYC is 96 out of 100, barely on the list at all.
by Anonymous | reply 288 | January 15, 2024 1:28 PM |
There are other crimes other than murders.
and so many vehicular homicides, and hit and runs
by Anonymous | reply 290 | January 15, 2024 7:11 PM |
Lol, r289, it's really too bad that you couldn't make it in the big city, but do get over it.
by Anonymous | reply 291 | January 15, 2024 7:13 PM |
So many vehicular mishaps. The streets are so dangerous!
by Anonymous | reply 292 | January 15, 2024 7:15 PM |
Oooh, scary, r292...you best stay away.
by Anonymous | reply 293 | January 15, 2024 7:18 PM |
Wrong-way driver injures 7 pedestrians, 1 officer in New York City
by Anonymous | reply 294 | January 15, 2024 7:20 PM |
[Quote] There are other crimes other than murders.
by Anonymous | reply 296 | January 15, 2024 7:33 PM |
Seek professional help, r296. Better yet, do something productive with your life.
by Anonymous | reply 297 | January 15, 2024 7:39 PM |
R297 why so triggered Pete Repete? What are you doing here that's so productive? You'll be missed . . .
by Anonymous | reply 298 | January 15, 2024 7:49 PM |
[quote]Pete Repete?
*That's* rich coming from you.
by Anonymous | reply 299 | January 15, 2024 7:52 PM |
This thread is beyond stupid. The crime in NYC comes and goes in various waves and levels for over 200 years. You can go back year after year, decade after decade, and see comparable incidents on an almost daily basis. This is life in the big city.
by Anonymous | reply 300 | January 15, 2024 8:42 PM |
I don't remember a decade or so ago there being as many incidents on a 'daily basis'
by Anonymous | reply 301 | January 15, 2024 9:28 PM |
[quote]I don't remember a decade or so ago there being as many incidents on a 'daily basis'
That's because you weren't trolling and spastically linking on DL, r301.
by Anonymous | reply 302 | January 15, 2024 11:30 PM |
^^
by Anonymous | reply 303 | January 15, 2024 11:32 PM |
Make mine a double!
Witnesses say a yellow SUV, possibly a taxi, hit one person pushing a stroller - and then sped away and hit another person, also hitting that stroller.
by Anonymous | reply 304 | January 16, 2024 2:06 AM |
Real New Yorkers know not to get involved.
by Anonymous | reply 305 | January 16, 2024 12:19 PM |
Shootings may be down, but knives are the preferred weapon
by Anonymous | reply 306 | January 16, 2024 4:15 PM |
The bad cops in the NYPD are very much a minority, however, the good cops are turning a blind eye and/or are silent, giving all of law enforcement a very bad image.
by Anonymous | reply 310 | January 16, 2024 9:19 PM |
Many are leaving for better pay in safer surroundings
by Anonymous | reply 311 | January 16, 2024 10:04 PM |
[Quote] it's really too bad that you couldn't make it in the big city, but do get over it.
does that apply to the police as well
by Anonymous | reply 312 | January 16, 2024 10:23 PM |
Any wonder why police officers are leaving the NYPD!
by Anonymous | reply 315 | January 18, 2024 2:35 AM |
Even the rats are leaving!
Rat sighting complaints in the city’s “rat mitigation zones” last year decreased by 20%, according to Adams’ office.
by Anonymous | reply 316 | January 18, 2024 6:16 AM |
[quote]Rat sighting complaints in the city’s “rat mitigation zones” last year decreased by 20%, according to Adams’ office.
Where did they go? The rat choir explains.
by Anonymous | reply 317 | January 18, 2024 9:31 PM |
Immigration is an issue that everyone feels deeply, no matter which side of the political spectrum you fall on. The mainstream media reports on the border crisis constantly, and the newest story on overflowing immigration only makes it more clear exactly how dire the situation really is.
Communities are becoming outraged.
by Anonymous | reply 319 | January 19, 2024 2:00 AM |
Run over a regular citizen, you get off with a warning. Run over a police officer, you are going to get time.
by Anonymous | reply 321 | January 20, 2024 1:29 AM |
she'd get more than a warning; she was driving the wrong way for starters
by Anonymous | reply 322 | January 20, 2024 8:04 AM |
Unfortunately most NYPD cops go out of the way to avoid paperwork.
by Anonymous | reply 323 | January 20, 2024 3:42 PM |
Perhaps because of revolving door justice with the perps right back on the street.
The man has been arrested at least a dozen times before, the latest being in November for criminal possession of a weapon for carrying a knife, according to a law enforcement source.
by Anonymous | reply 324 | January 20, 2024 6:24 PM |
If they don't have an available place to pee and poop, where are they going to go? They should place a few port-a-potties there.
by Anonymous | reply 326 | January 21, 2024 1:18 PM |
The mayor, during a press conference with Police Commissioner Edward Caban, railed against the “How Many Stops Act,” claiming again that it will mire cops in extra paperwork and drive up overtime.
[Quote] Unfortunately most NYPD cops go out of the way to avoid paperwork.
they're going to need stenographers R323
by Anonymous | reply 328 | January 22, 2024 8:02 PM |
Another officer attacked responding to 911 call.
NYPD officers responded to a 911 call of an emotionally disturbed person inside an apartment located at 1151 New York Ave. in Flatbush just before 3:30 p.m. When officers were inside the apartment speaking with family, a sergeant was slashed to the right side of the head with a machete.
by Anonymous | reply 329 | January 22, 2024 11:35 PM |
Slashing seems to be a new pastime in New York.
by Anonymous | reply 330 | January 23, 2024 6:59 PM |
R331 Nicotine is a hell of a drug.
by Anonymous | reply 332 | January 25, 2024 11:50 AM |
NY and national candidates need to run on bringing back mental institutions. They will create jobs. They’ll serve the underserved. They’ll house the unhoused. They’ll provide job training. They’ll be funded by BIG PHARMA!
by Anonymous | reply 333 | January 25, 2024 1:24 PM |
[quote]NY and national candidates need to run on bringing back mental institutions. They will create jobs. They’ll serve the underserved. They’ll house the unhoused. They’ll provide job training. They’ll be funded by BIG PHARMA!
And they will provide housing for politicians.
by Anonymous | reply 334 | January 25, 2024 1:30 PM |
R332 should switch to vapes. No one bums vapes, do they?
by Anonymous | reply 335 | January 25, 2024 5:09 PM |
The US went from being overly dependent on mental institutions, and often committing people improperly, to the other extreme of not institutionalizing those who desperately need it.
by Anonymous | reply 336 | January 25, 2024 6:23 PM |
It's a shit hole that gets worse by the day. Stay away. Spend your vacation money elsewhere.
by Anonymous | reply 337 | January 25, 2024 11:36 PM |
R337 = NYC Director of Tourism
by Anonymous | reply 338 | January 26, 2024 1:11 AM |
NYC Director of Tourism=Director of migrant busses
by Anonymous | reply 339 | January 26, 2024 1:36 AM |
I just found out that two former co workers and a friend I lost touch with a few years ago all moved far away from NYC. I'm just adding them to the list. The very long list.
by Anonymous | reply 340 | January 26, 2024 2:15 AM |
NYC inks another set of emergency hotel contracts to house migrants — at $137M price tag
Good for business but not necessarily tourism
by Anonymous | reply 342 | February 3, 2024 2:11 AM |
[quote] New York City - What is it like in 2023
It’s a whole lot better than that shit show on the west coast - San Francisco.
by Anonymous | reply 343 | February 3, 2024 2:49 AM |
but essentially, it's becoming San Fran East
by Anonymous | reply 344 | February 3, 2024 3:11 AM |
Crime wave: here are the top U.S. cities where shoplifting has jumped
Biggest increases in shoplifting (from midyear 2019 to midyear 2023):
New York: increase in incidents by 64% Los Angeles: increase in incidents by 61% Virginia Beach, Va.: increase in incidents by 44% Dallas: increase in incidents by 20%
by Anonymous | reply 345 | February 3, 2024 5:37 AM |
NYC spent almost $2.5B providing welfare checks to over 720K residents – the most it’s paid out in over a decade
by Anonymous | reply 346 | February 3, 2024 7:31 PM |
The inmates and the migrants have taken over in 2024
by Anonymous | reply 347 | February 5, 2024 11:21 PM |
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free/the wretched refuse of your teeming shore
Let's strike that last part
by Anonymous | reply 348 | February 11, 2024 6:03 AM |
[quote]r12 Many streets and neighborhoods feel MT
#MeToo ?
by Anonymous | reply 350 | February 19, 2024 11:56 PM |
Are all criminals in NYC black/brown, or just the ones in the Post?
by Anonymous | reply 354 | February 20, 2024 6:03 PM |
we will look back on 2023 as one of the golden years in NYC
by Anonymous | reply 358 | March 3, 2024 1:58 AM |
Police presence in the actual subway system will make a big difference. Even before the pandemic began the NYPD or transit police all but abandoned the subway, making it a free for all for criminal element, homeless people and the mentally unstable. The only place I would see police at times was at the entrances of major hubs. How about being on the platforms or even on trains?
by Anonymous | reply 360 | March 6, 2024 1:36 AM |
The hard truth is that "stop and frisk" was a huge benefit to the city, at the expense of the pride of black and latino citizens.
by Anonymous | reply 362 | March 6, 2024 7:46 PM |
There is a world of difference from eliminating the stop and frisk policy and actually arresting, booking, and prosecuting those who actually break laws, especially those who are repeat offenders.
by Anonymous | reply 363 | March 6, 2024 9:55 PM |
more cops and the National Guard needed right away!
by Anonymous | reply 364 | March 6, 2024 11:54 PM |
Will the National Guard be confiscating bottles?
by Anonymous | reply 365 | March 8, 2024 1:20 AM |
New York government and, the attorney generals and law enforcement have been ignoring crime, the homeless and the mentally ill in the subway system for years now, and they feel the bets way to address it is to bring in outside assistant to try to put a band-aid on the void they created. There is zero presence in the subways and the perps know it's basically a free for all down there.
by Anonymous | reply 366 | March 8, 2024 1:25 AM |
Despite the National Guard the subways are still dangerous and perhaps especially for those who work for the MTA
by Anonymous | reply 368 | March 17, 2024 12:03 AM |
I was in The Ramble the other night and there were *two* straight couples. I have never seen women in The Ramble after dark. Is someone advertising that straight people can watch gays have sex?
by Anonymous | reply 370 | March 17, 2024 12:19 AM |
were they women, women R370?
by Anonymous | reply 371 | March 17, 2024 12:20 AM |
R371, yes! They seemed to be there only to watch which I can’t figure out. And they seemed to know the areas where the guys would be playing.
by Anonymous | reply 372 | March 17, 2024 12:28 AM |
R372 Maybe along with The Vessel, the High Line and Little Island Park it's become a tourist attraction. Women wanting to watch man-man sex is nothing new btw. Women visited the Anvil and sometimes attempted to get into male sex parties/clubs. And the Ramble is an open public space so they can't be thrown out or denied admission
by Anonymous | reply 373 | March 17, 2024 12:53 AM |
I regularly see gangs of teens hanging out with drinking alcohol and smoking. Cops are never around. A police presence would be a deterrent to the loitering groups of teens, but I guess donut runs are more important.
by Anonymous | reply 374 | March 17, 2024 1:25 AM |
Or, perhaps R374, there are not enough................
[quote]The NYPD’s force will be reduced to just 29,000 cops by the end of fiscal year 2025 — the lowest level since the mid-90s — amid a slew of city-wide budget cuts revealed by Mayor Eric Adams Thursday as the Big Apple grapples with its multi-billion-dollar migrant crisis.
[quote]Under City Hall’s newly unveiled updated 2024 financial plan, the next five police academy classes will be axed — essentially decimating an already strained department as roughly 4,500 officers are expected to leave their ranks within the next 18 months.
by Anonymous | reply 375 | March 17, 2024 2:17 AM |
Why stay in NY when you can go to safer places with higher pay and probably more respect.
by Anonymous | reply 376 | March 17, 2024 2:36 AM |
Brooklyn's district attorney will not pursue charges against man in fatal New York City subway shooting, citing self-defense
The incident occurred during rush hour on a northbound A train in Brooklyn, where two men engaged in a physical altercation that escalated to one man pulling out a gun.
Passengers on the subway witnessed the violent confrontation, with some attempting to intervene and others shouting warnings as the situation unfolded.
by Anonymous | reply 377 | March 17, 2024 3:51 AM |
It's still the safest big city in the United States
by Anonymous | reply 380 | March 19, 2024 5:36 AM |
[Quote] I commute to work by subway daily. I see police on the platforms very often (this is in Manhattan below 125th street though). I feel safe commuting by subway. I wouldn’t take the subway after 10pm though.
yet I can't remember the last time cops were on the scene to arrest the perp
by Anonymous | reply 381 | March 19, 2024 6:36 AM |
[quote]Only half of New Yorkers plan to stay in the city, according to the survey of more than 6,600 New York City households conducted in the second half of 2023 by the nonpartisan Citizens Budget Commission
by Anonymous | reply 384 | March 20, 2024 12:26 AM |
R184. Yes— 1/2 the City— 4,400,000 city dwellers are forming a mass brigade to march south to the Carolinas, Georgia and Fla.
by Anonymous | reply 385 | March 20, 2024 12:38 AM |
For^ R384
by Anonymous | reply 386 | March 20, 2024 12:39 AM |
R383 I won't even justify clicking on that link. The New York Post became a rag of yellow journalism since the Murdochs bought it around 40 years ago. It has just devolved further each year into lowest common denominator garbage and prints blatant hit pieces on anybody or anything that doesn't fit comfortably with the right wing propaganda you see on Fox.
by Anonymous | reply 387 | March 20, 2024 1:28 AM |
R184 Just half of all New Yorkers plan to stay in the city over the next five years, and anger over quality of life has skyrocketed since the pandemic — with just 30% saying they’re happy here, according to a damning poll from the The Citizens Budget Commission.
[Quote] —There just like migrants coming thru Mexico
Not exactly. They are most likely citizens who may be retiring or have jobs and can work remotely while living in an environment that is quieter, safer, cleaner, less crowded and more economical.
by Anonymous | reply 388 | March 20, 2024 1:32 AM |
^^^ was responding to R385
by Anonymous | reply 389 | March 20, 2024 1:34 AM |
People are understandably afraid, and the Governor has called in the National Guard!
by Anonymous | reply 390 | March 20, 2024 1:40 AM |
I will be visiting NYC for a long week (about 9 days in April). First time visiting the city. I'm from the UK. I'm a little apprehensive about the crime stories, but more interested in discovering places to eat, cool live music venues, best places for lesbian watching. Any tips?
by Anonymous | reply 391 | March 20, 2024 1:46 AM |
R391 Google is your friend!
by Anonymous | reply 393 | March 20, 2024 1:52 AM |
The NYPD and the Transit Police had totally abandoned the subway system even before the pandemic hit, creating a vacuum, and allowing for the homeless, the mentally ill, and the criminal element to basically run amok with impunity. I see whatever policy they adopted as a dereliction of duty. Calling in the National Guard to do the job they won't do.
by Anonymous | reply 394 | March 20, 2024 1:54 AM |
Not the same as talking to locals, r393.
by Anonymous | reply 395 | March 20, 2024 1:55 AM |
you could be more specific R395 What do you plan to do in NY? What are your interests and what is your budget? Many sites provide up to the minute information and often have reviews from consumers on clubs, theater, hotels, restaurants, museums . . .
by Anonymous | reply 396 | March 20, 2024 2:11 AM |
Staying for around 9 days in Midtown Manhattan, with girlfriend. We'll be doing the general touristy things, so sticking to that central area, but we've never been before and so I can't really get a picture of anything in my mind.
Budget is maybe $200 a day each, it can stretch to a bit more if necessary. I'd like to find out about some reasonably priced places to eat. Everything I've come across so far seems to be either a diner-type pizzeria or a 2-star Michelin restaurant.
I've looked at sites for live music, but it gets a bit overwhelming when you're not familiar with the city or the places. Jazz or rock.
I would like to visit Ellis Island but can't quite work out the ferry company website. I guess I could ask at the hotel.
by Anonymous | reply 397 | March 20, 2024 2:28 AM |
Also, good places to shop for clothes.
by Anonymous | reply 398 | March 20, 2024 2:30 AM |
R398 Barney's, Macy's and Bloomingdale's flagship stores. Vintage clothing in the East Village and of course exclusive stores on Madison Avenue and chains such as Urban Outfitters. Too many to list but again the internet has all the latest.
by Anonymous | reply 399 | March 20, 2024 2:43 AM |
Barneys closed shop years ago.
by Anonymous | reply 400 | March 20, 2024 3:12 AM |
and I suspect many others will be closing shop
by Anonymous | reply 401 | March 20, 2024 1:57 PM |
Thanks, r399!
by Anonymous | reply 402 | March 20, 2024 2:18 PM |
R402 Clueless Brit if you are going to be in NY for 9 days in Midtown besides the Broadway theaters there are plenty of restaurants in Midtown West (Times Square/Hell's Kitchen). Walk around 8th, 9th and 10th Avenues in the 40s.
by Anonymous | reply 404 | March 20, 2024 8:22 PM |
R398, Century 21 is a decent place for marked down brand name clothing.
A fun thing to do might be to take the ferry from Pier 11 to Rockaway, Queens and visit the beach. Lots of great restaurants out there. The ferry is the same price as the subway.
by Anonymous | reply 405 | March 20, 2024 8:33 PM |
R397 offers tips and suggestions most locals don't know about
by Anonymous | reply 406 | March 20, 2024 9:22 PM |
Thanks r404, I've just been discovering some great-looking, reasonably priced restaurants in Hells Kitchen/Times Square on one of the apps mentioned in the video r406 linked to! The zip code tip on the metro is also very useful.
That does sound fun, r405, and gives us an opportunity to see another part of the city.
Thanks guys, I'm starting to get very excited!
by Anonymous | reply 407 | March 20, 2024 10:58 PM |
R407 you might like Coney Island. It's more accessible and has more to do than Rockaway Beach. You can get there on the D F N Q subway lines from midtown.
by Anonymous | reply 408 | March 20, 2024 11:44 PM |
R399 copied that text from his old Fodor’s guide.
It made me laugh….
by Anonymous | reply 409 | March 21, 2024 1:27 AM |
^ I loved the "...and of course exclusive stores on Madison Avenue" directed to someone with a budget of $200 a day.
by Anonymous | reply 410 | March 21, 2024 1:38 AM |
Thanks r408, Coney island sounds easy to get too. It's all gonna be fun!
by Anonymous | reply 413 | March 21, 2024 6:02 PM |
R408 Luna Park in Coney Island opens this month. A couple of the subway lines have Coney Island as their final stop. Weekdays are best as it is less crowded.
by Anonymous | reply 414 | March 21, 2024 7:04 PM |
R413 ⬆️⬆️⬆️ Sounds like you may already have a hotel if not this moderately-priced Hotel has a great location near Times Square, the theater district, the subway and lots of restaurants. It's relatively new and I used to pass it when I worked in Midtown. So much is right there and it's new!
by Anonymous | reply 415 | March 21, 2024 8:22 PM |
Yes, we have a hotel but that one looks fun too and with a great view!
by Anonymous | reply 416 | March 22, 2024 12:00 AM |
This is our hotel. Looks lesbian-friendly from the promotional video - two women hooking up at the hotel, one leaves after a hot sesh, turns and gives a wry smile as the other gazes dreamily out over the city?
by Anonymous | reply 417 | March 22, 2024 12:16 AM |
R417 Nice You'll be near Grand Central Station, Bryant Park and The NY Library. Relatively quiet area particularly at night. Enjoy!
by Anonymous | reply 418 | March 22, 2024 1:20 AM |
Thanks r418, I'm glad to know it's a little quieter!
by Anonymous | reply 419 | March 22, 2024 11:14 AM |
I wonder when if the presence of the National Guard will make a difference?
by Anonymous | reply 420 | March 26, 2024 3:10 AM |
when and if ^^^
by Anonymous | reply 421 | March 26, 2024 3:11 AM |
[quote]"This is 800 cops - 800 cops being surged into this system over the next five days
799 which are deployed to Times Square to take pictures with the tourists.
by Anonymous | reply 422 | March 26, 2024 3:22 AM |
Cops basically stand at the entrance of some of the major hub stations. They are rarely on the platforms or on the actual trains.
by Anonymous | reply 423 | March 26, 2024 12:45 PM |
I live in Manhattan and I’ve yet to see any national guard.
by Anonymous | reply 424 | March 26, 2024 2:48 PM |
Person gets pushed onto subway tracks and is killed.
by Anonymous | reply 425 | March 26, 2024 6:29 PM |
R426 I do not understand NYC AG's irresponsibility in not prosecuting repeat criminals. How is that making communities safer and protecting police officers? Who wins here?
by Anonymous | reply 428 | March 27, 2024 12:17 AM |
[quote]I do not understand NYC AG's irresponsibility in not prosecuting repeat criminals.
Think harder...
by Anonymous | reply 429 | March 27, 2024 12:19 AM |
New York City women warn each other to stay alert after multiple people report getting ‘punched in the face
On Tuesday 19 March at around 8pm, comedian Sarah Suzuki Harvard was walking alone on Delancey Street in lower Manhattan when she was attacked by a man from behind. He punched her in the back of her skull, but when she turned around, the assailant had already begun running away.
Since then, the 30-year-old Lower East Side resident has experienced headaches, nausea, dizziness, blurred vision, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress. While she didn’t initially file a police report after the attack, Harvard said that seeing viral videos from multiple women detailing similar assaults has now inspired her to report the incident.
by Anonymous | reply 431 | March 27, 2024 12:35 AM |
[quote]On Tuesday 19 March at around 8pm, comedian Sarah Suzuki Harvard was walking alone on Delancey Street in lower Manhattan when she was attacked by a man from behind.
That man was sent by Sally Sweet, the Queen of Delancey Street. She doesn’t put up with anyone on her patch trying to attract the attention of Cuban Pete.
If I were one Sarah S. Harvard, I’d get out of town while the gettin’s good.
by Anonymous | reply 432 | March 27, 2024 2:09 AM |
Man arrested after multiple women say they were punched in face while walking on NYC streets.
Police on Wednesday arrested a man on an assault charge following a recent string of unprovoked attacks reported by women across New York City in which they said a stranger approached them and punched them in the head or face.
by Anonymous | reply 437 | March 28, 2024 7:59 AM |
It's probably just one guy punching women. And he was arrested, see R437.
by Anonymous | reply 440 | March 29, 2024 12:28 PM |
It's the " He-Man Woman Haters Club" R440.
by Anonymous | reply 441 | March 29, 2024 2:23 PM |
Is this the best place to ask how much cash a first-time visitor to NYC should carry on her?
by Anonymous | reply 443 | March 29, 2024 4:23 PM |
R440 isn't it symptomatic of all the crazy people wandering around the city attacking people at random and the catch and release policy and the reason the subways have become so dangerous that the governor has called in the National Guard. The man arrested had previously been arrested 3 times in the past 6 months for similar crimes.
by Anonymous | reply 444 | March 29, 2024 5:33 PM |
[Quote] It's probably just one guy punching women. And he was arrested
but then again . . .
by Anonymous | reply 445 | March 29, 2024 5:38 PM |
[quote]In the US, if you don’t take pay for cable how many free channels do you have, and are they worth watching?
I'll get flamed for this, but liberals in NYC still haven't made the connection between voting and safe streets. I bet every one of these people who got punched in the face voted for Adams because he is black and they could pat themselves on the back because they're not racist.
This stuff will stop happening when we stop the BLM justice system and return to putting people in jail and holding them there.
by Anonymous | reply 446 | March 29, 2024 8:40 PM |
R446 Adams ran on being the law and order candidate.
Police say the man charged with shooting Diller had at least 21 prior arrests.
Will officer Diller be memorialized in a statue like George Floyd or have a town square named after him!
by Anonymous | reply 447 | March 29, 2024 11:29 PM |
[quote]the man charged with shooting Diller had at least 21 prior arrests.
21 prior arrests.
In any civilized country this guy would be seen as a menace to society and would have been put away in jail for a long time.
[quote] Adams ran on being the law and order candidate.
He's a Democrat.
by Anonymous | reply 448 | March 29, 2024 11:53 PM |
[quote]Adams ran on being the law and order candidate.
And stupid people voted for him believing he had the power to lock up criminals. Unfortunately, until the law is changed, he does not have that power.
Bring back bail!
by Anonymous | reply 449 | March 30, 2024 12:07 AM |
Mayor Adams launching a gun scanner initiative.
I swear, in five years, boarding the subway will be like getting on an airplane.
by Anonymous | reply 450 | March 30, 2024 12:41 AM |
The National Guard,
Now gun scanners.
Tell us again how crime has gone down.
by Anonymous | reply 451 | March 30, 2024 1:33 AM |
More news from 'the safest big city in America'
by Anonymous | reply 452 | March 31, 2024 1:59 AM |
Easter Sunday in the safest big city in America
by Anonymous | reply 453 | April 2, 2024 6:41 AM |
If you can make it there . . .you can make it anywhere
by Anonymous | reply 454 | April 2, 2024 6:43 AM |
Sunday in the park
Woman assaulted with hammer in Central Park—hours after man attacked with rock
by Anonymous | reply 456 | April 2, 2024 6:49 AM |
[Quote] Is this the best place to ask how much cash a first-time visitor to NYC should carry on her?
a few dollars as robbers don't like it when you only have credit cards
by Anonymous | reply 457 | April 2, 2024 6:59 AM |
Crimes like this have been going on for decades in NYC. And they have been going on in other major cities as well. Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Houston, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 458 | April 2, 2024 4:21 PM |
Should that make us feels safer?
by Anonymous | reply 459 | April 2, 2024 6:29 PM |
[Quote]Crimes like this have been going on for decades in NYC
R458 Don't remember so many random, unprovoked assaults not the National Guard deployed to restore law and order in the subway
by Anonymous | reply 460 | April 3, 2024 6:27 PM |
A decade or so ago there was the' knockout game' now randomly punching women seems to be trending and it's happening in all neighborhoods.
by Anonymous | reply 461 | April 3, 2024 6:32 PM |
Something a bit more entertaining to break through the gloom and doom. Brit reacts to video about two other Brits trying bagels in NYC.
by Anonymous | reply 464 | April 13, 2024 2:32 AM |
Thanks r164, but I'm a Brit about to visit York to eat maybe bagels and definitely Korean food, but I find that Korean Englishman to be so boring. My non-Brit, bagel-loving girlfriend is a big fan of his and of the Jolly videos, though.
by Anonymous | reply 465 | April 13, 2024 3:18 AM |
This reactor is anything but boring.
by Anonymous | reply 466 | April 13, 2024 10:33 AM |
Foreigners discovering the art NYC's best pizza is always entertaining. Even Italians don't expect NY pizza to be that good. But they had many decades perfecting it.
by Anonymous | reply 468 | April 13, 2024 4:48 PM |
If only NY's criminal justice system was on a par with its pizza and bagels.
by Anonymous | reply 469 | April 13, 2024 10:31 PM |
After being closed for 3 years, The Vessel will reopen with some modifications
by Anonymous | reply 470 | April 16, 2024 4:40 AM |
Teresa Vasilopoulos, 64, who works in social services in Toronto, wondered if a suicide hotline phone might help, in addition to the netting. “It’s such a shame not to have it,” she said.
by Anonymous | reply 471 | April 16, 2024 5:01 AM |
I had some pizza at Scarrs yesterday, r468. It was very good, but not better than good Italian pizza.
by Anonymous | reply 472 | April 16, 2024 10:21 AM |
This is why people in my NY office want to work remotely more than just Mondays and Fridays
by Anonymous | reply 473 | April 22, 2024 8:05 PM |
A few weeks ago I was walking fast to catch a train at Penn Station. The Rangers game had just gotten out and there were lots of young male fans in the area. I'm in my 60s and I look it. I passed by a 40ish looking black man who decided to slam into me hard with his shoulder. He grunted as he slammed me but did not knock me down. I turned and looked at him and he was clearly deranged so I just kept walking. Thoughts after the incident: 1. He had his choice of young white men but picked me, 2. I'm grateful he didn't stab me, and 3. I'm going to be much more aware of my surroundings in the future. Especially in crowds.
by Anonymous | reply 475 | April 22, 2024 8:21 PM |
R474 "random attacks are a daily occurrence "
No shit Sherlock. Random attacks have been happening in big cities across the US forever and for different reasons.
by Anonymous | reply 476 | April 22, 2024 8:38 PM |
R476 lived in the NY metro area all my life, and this exceeds anything I remember, and my friends and coworkers feel the same way.
BTW Why so angry?
by Anonymous | reply 477 | April 22, 2024 9:00 PM |
R477 The only notable changes I see is that there are perhaps more people with mental issues in public, and that much of the crimes are being done by repeat offenders who are not being being charged or prosecuted. In general crime is due mostly by those in poverty and because of a bad economy.
by Anonymous | reply 479 | April 22, 2024 9:30 PM |
Look harder R479 Never remember the National Guard being deployed.
by Anonymous | reply 480 | April 22, 2024 9:33 PM |
That's because the NYPD and Transit police have abandoned the subway system for years, causing a vacuum that was filled by the homeless and mentally disturbed. All my life there was police presence on subway platform and on trains, and they even had plainclothes cops. Since the 1970s taking the train to my high school, college, and all the different jobs, and even coming home late at night. That stopped a few years ago. The only place you see any police today are at entrances of major hub stations.
by Anonymous | reply 481 | April 22, 2024 10:04 PM |
Mentally ill, homeless, migrants, protestors . . .
by Anonymous | reply 482 | April 24, 2024 5:00 PM |
3/4 of this thread are from just 2 people. Once I hit ignore, most of the thread goes away and I only see up to R112, lol.
NYC is not back to it's former glory. But it is a deffo improvement to COVID times.
by Anonymous | reply 487 | May 4, 2024 7:41 AM |
Though in COVID times people felt the need for masks and vaccines as opposed to guns and the National Guard.
by Anonymous | reply 488 | May 4, 2024 7:53 AM |
I just visited NYC from Europe and was surprised by the number of people still wearing masks!
Also, why is there so little signage and why aren't doors labelled push/pull?
by Anonymous | reply 489 | May 4, 2024 8:40 AM |
[quote]I just visited NYC from Europe and was surprised by the number of people still wearing masks!
Those were the muggers.
by Anonymous | reply 490 | May 4, 2024 11:15 PM |
A few strange people wear masks outside. I still wear a mask inside the subway.
by Anonymous | reply 491 | May 4, 2024 11:36 PM |
Not sure, r490, because they appeared to be people in customer services, e.g. restaurant staff, bus drivers, at the checkout in shops, security staff in museums, flight attendants. I guess if they encounter a lot of people each day they want to feel safe, but it's a marked difference from Europe, where only really old people might occasionally still where them.
by Anonymous | reply 493 | May 5, 2024 7:52 AM |
Gunfire erupts on the streets again and again it's not clear if the victims were even the intended targets
by Anonymous | reply 494 | May 7, 2024 3:08 AM |
It’s all so frightening and dangerous. I haven’t left my apartment since February 2020. I’ve been watching the play-by-play here on DL in such threads as “Has New York bounced back?”, and I always ask myself — what good could come from stepping out into that war zone that intrepid posters like Defacto and others from faraway states are brave enough to shed light on? I watch from my window and see more foot traffic than ever before. It’s only a matter of time before each of the tens of thousands of daily passersby gets hit in the face with a hammer. No one is safe, and, as evidenced by several dozen incidents, everyone will fall victim.
No thank you. I will eat my Meals on Wheels in peace.
by Anonymous | reply 496 | May 7, 2024 3:22 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 497 | May 7, 2024 3:35 AM |
Then don't vote for Democrats to run and ruin your city R497
by Anonymous | reply 498 | May 7, 2024 3:52 AM |
I work downtown and have been walking to the lower east side over the lunch hour to get some steps in. I’ve noticed a lot more homeless, mentally ill people and drug addicts on the lower east side. It’s a bit alarming. No one has bothered me (yet) and I’m not one of the hysterics who thinks NYC is now a war zone - but there seems to have been a shift in that neighborhood.
by Anonymous | reply 499 | May 7, 2024 3:55 AM |
R502 The shooting appears to be stemming from school dispute. It wasn't some random person being shot in the head in the street.
by Anonymous | reply 503 | May 7, 2024 9:52 PM |
Well thankfully the assailant had good aim R503
by Anonymous | reply 504 | May 7, 2024 9:59 PM |
It has entered the " flyover" category.
by Anonymous | reply 510 | May 9, 2024 2:13 AM |
Nothing absurd about people being stabbed to death; tragic.
by Anonymous | reply 512 | May 9, 2024 1:53 PM |
NYC has a population of 8.3 million. How does anybody expect it to be crime free? Especially with the mentally ill and the rise of homeless in the streets and with the DA not setting bail or even charging offenders?
by Anonymous | reply 513 | May 9, 2024 4:23 PM |
3 surfers killed in Mexico's Baja Peninsula has been all over the news as well as DL, but 3 teens killed in separate incidents in NYC in a period of about 48 hours is just treated as another day in NY. btw How many people have been killed in the demonstrations that have dominated the news?
by Anonymous | reply 514 | May 9, 2024 5:26 PM |
A fuck’n metropolis of insatiable hungry bottoms. You can’t open up any hook up app and not be confronted with literally hundreds of gaping and hungry holes, waiting to be ravaged and seeded. It’s a gold mine for hung tops looking to unload their coveted cream.
by Anonymous | reply 516 | May 9, 2024 5:33 PM |
(^.^) hungry aging bottoms R516
by Anonymous | reply 517 | May 9, 2024 5:45 PM |
Is this entire thread just one poster stalking NYC?
NYC in 2023 seems like a circus/madhouse but I have to admit it’s kind of fun. I’d still rather be here than some dull suburb.
by Anonymous | reply 520 | May 11, 2024 2:32 AM |
Make that 2024!
by Anonymous | reply 521 | May 11, 2024 2:33 AM |
Half the posts on this thread are invisible to me, including 5-10 consecutive posts at a time. I’ve only ever blocked about half a dozen posters in the last decade. It seems like we have a lone busy beaver obsessed with painting NYC as some sort of hellscape where all who enter will be murdered multiple times a day every day if all the fentanyl particles in the air don’t get them first.
by Anonymous | reply 522 | May 11, 2024 2:58 AM |
What's with all this stabbing shit? Real Americans shoot other people, not stab them. Un-American!!!
by Anonymous | reply 524 | May 11, 2024 11:30 AM |
People either aren't aware or have have selective memory, but even in the 1980s NYC had rashes of stubbings.
Er,.... I mean stabbings.
Miss Emily Litella reporting from 1980.
by Anonymous | reply 525 | May 11, 2024 4:03 PM |
and they even had the E train back then! Some things never change!
by Anonymous | reply 526 | May 11, 2024 4:30 PM |
[Quote] What's with all this stabbing shit? Real Americans shoot other people, not stab them. Un-American!!!
In NY we use bottles, box cutters and crowbars
by Anonymous | reply 528 | May 11, 2024 4:53 PM |
[Quote] Real Americans shoot other people, not stab them. Un-American!!!
Well shootings are down
While most major crimes are down, including shootings and murders, robberies shot up 5.6% so far in 2024 over the same period in 2023 — to 5,522 from 5,228 as of May 5.
by Anonymous | reply 531 | May 11, 2024 5:28 PM |
R524 nearly 40% of New Yorkers are foreign born and they bring their culture with them
by Anonymous | reply 532 | May 11, 2024 8:11 PM |
R532,Maine is a foreign country?
[quote]Bickford, a US citizen and Maine resident, traveled to New York City “to, in his own words, wage jihad and kill as many of his targets as possible,” the US Attorney’s Office said in a news release.
by Anonymous | reply 533 | May 11, 2024 8:21 PM |
R533 I thought Maine was a country
by Anonymous | reply 534 | May 11, 2024 10:22 PM |
[quote] I thought Maine was a country
I'm very concerned.
by Anonymous | reply 535 | May 11, 2024 11:45 PM |
Very concerned if Trump is re elected.
On February 13, 2021, Collins was one of seven Republican senators to vote to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial.[97
by Anonymous | reply 536 | May 12, 2024 12:26 AM |
[Quote] What's with all this stabbing shit? Real Americans shoot other people, not stab them. Un-American!!!
here's a refreshing change of pace R524
by Anonymous | reply 539 | May 12, 2024 2:52 AM |
I’d be concerned for my own sanity if I were talking to myself to the tune of several hundred comments in a single Datalounge thread.
by Anonymous | reply 540 | May 12, 2024 2:54 AM |
I'm as sane as anyone walking the streets of NY R540
by Anonymous | reply 541 | May 12, 2024 7:06 AM |
I'd be concerned for the victims R540
"After the incident it was traumatizing for me, so I feel like I don't wanna go back outside," Park said.
by Anonymous | reply 542 | May 12, 2024 7:12 AM |
Nah, you’re an obsessive nut who ought to get a life.
by Anonymous | reply 543 | May 12, 2024 11:43 AM |
that's better than taking a life R543
by Anonymous | reply 544 | May 12, 2024 5:52 PM |
[Quote] The shooting appears to be stemming from school dispute. It wasn't some random person being shot in the head in the street.
R503
by Anonymous | reply 547 | May 12, 2024 8:20 PM |
I went to see Stereophonic today for the second time. I got murdered three times on my way there from UWS, then twice more on the way home. Seems like every time I’ve left my apartment since 2020, I’m either getting raped or hit in the face with a hammer or just downright murdered. This is the same experience of everyone in New York, locals and tourists alike. It goes woefully under-reported in the Post.
Anybody who tells you New York has bounced back is a shill for Woke Inc.
by Anonymous | reply 550 | May 13, 2024 2:28 AM |
a to say nothing of ABC, CBS, NBC, WPIX 11, AMNY . . .
Destin has been arrested more than a dozen times before. He lives in a building nearby that includes supportive housing for formerly homeless individuals.
by Anonymous | reply 551 | May 13, 2024 2:36 AM |
BE VERY AFRAID 👻☠️
by Anonymous | reply 552 | May 13, 2024 2:43 AM |
Cute R550
by Anonymous | reply 553 | May 13, 2024 2:50 AM |
Buscemi's "Boardwalk Empire" co-star Michael Stuhlbarg was hit in the back of the neck with a rock while walking in Manhattan's Central Park on March 31. Stuhlbarg chased his attacker, who was taken into custody outside the park.
by Anonymous | reply 554 | May 13, 2024 2:55 AM |
R549 Damn film critics are getting aggressive.
by Anonymous | reply 555 | May 13, 2024 1:26 PM |
Aren't you glad you elected a mayor who ran on a "tough on crime" platform? Aren't you glad you elected a DA who would not prosecute criminals, but decided to go after the police dept?
by Anonymous | reply 557 | May 13, 2024 6:04 PM |
New York is an unmitigated hellscape! I’ll grant you I haven’t been since the World’s Fair; regardless, it’s a far cry from my home in The Villages. The only thing here I have to fear is chlamydia itself.
by Anonymous | reply 558 | May 13, 2024 11:25 PM |
After a lifetime in Brooklyn, Debbie Villanueva moved to Rockaway Beach for the tranquility of the sea. But Villanueva is instead recovering after being attacked right in front of her new home.
by Anonymous | reply 561 | May 14, 2024 4:12 AM |
The attacker rushed the 25-year-old male victim on Seventh Avenue near West 25th Street in Chelsea at around 10:50 a.m. Monday and whacked him in the head with a bag stuffed full of items – leaving the budding actor covered in blood “everywhere,” he told The Post.
by Anonymous | reply 563 | May 15, 2024 5:32 AM |
[quote]3 separate incidents of teen violence
"Teen violence" sounds as quaint as "juvenile delinquents".
They might be under the age of 20, but they're hardened thugs.
by Anonymous | reply 564 | May 15, 2024 5:14 PM |
Rockaway Beach has been a danger zone as far back as I can remember. She should have stayed in Brooklyn.
by Anonymous | reply 565 | May 15, 2024 9:30 PM |
A man’s planned ambush on a couple walking down a Queens street backfired Wednesday when the pair turned the attack around, leaving him with multiple stab wounds, police said.
by Anonymous | reply 567 | May 16, 2024 5:39 AM |
R567. We'll be seeing more of this. People are fed up. First an angry mob cornering a perp earlier this week and now this. I walked through Chelsea yesterday and it was depressing. Where did all the gays go?
by Anonymous | reply 568 | May 16, 2024 12:37 PM |
You can have multiple DL threads like this of most major US cities, and they would be similar to NYC. Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Houston, etc. New York has more people than the next 3 most populous cities combined.
by Anonymous | reply 569 | May 16, 2024 12:45 PM |
[quote] move to the Queens!
Oh dear.
by Anonymous | reply 570 | May 16, 2024 12:54 PM |
Nice try at rationalization, R 569.
by Anonymous | reply 571 | May 16, 2024 1:14 PM |
It's fabulous, thanks for asking, never been better in my 64 years.
by Anonymous | reply 572 | May 16, 2024 1:38 PM |
[Quote] You can have multiple DL threads like this of most major US cities, and they would be similar to NYC
Yes, and how sad that so many major cities have deteriorated
by Anonymous | reply 573 | May 16, 2024 8:13 PM |
Is NY still the safest big city in the United States?
by Anonymous | reply 574 | May 16, 2024 8:15 PM |
[quote]I walked through Chelsea yesterday and it was depressing. Where did all the gays go?
To Hell’s Kitchen, twenty years ago. They dispersed elsewhere since. Both neighborhoods are safer today than then.
by Anonymous | reply 575 | May 16, 2024 11:07 PM |
'Man with hammers threatens worker while shoplifting at Hell's Kitchen 7-Eleven'
I live in hell's Kitchen 1998-2006 it seemed safer then
by Anonymous | reply 576 | May 17, 2024 8:36 PM |
A series of break-ins has rattled businesses in Hell’s Kitchen, with three side street stores near 10th Avenue having their glass doors shattered within 48 hours.
by Anonymous | reply 581 | May 17, 2024 8:43 PM |
[Quote] She should have stayed in Brooklyn.
but then again
by Anonymous | reply 582 | May 20, 2024 3:31 AM |
[Quote] She should have stayed in Brooklyn.
maybe not
by Anonymous | reply 583 | May 20, 2024 3:41 AM |
and to think this is the safest big city in the United States🥹😥😢
by Anonymous | reply 584 | May 20, 2024 3:45 AM |
R588 Yes, it does appear when random attackers are arrested they are typically released in a matter of hours. I guess the DA doesn't want the news of famous actor attacker being rereleased.
by Anonymous | reply 589 | May 20, 2024 1:17 PM |
(^,^) The story involving Buscemi was widely covered and made national headlines.
by Anonymous | reply 590 | May 20, 2024 5:29 PM |
How many mass murders have there been today? I’m counting three dozen in my news outlets of choice, but I know TPTB usually suppress one or two dozen massacre stories a day. And that’s just in Tribeca.
by Anonymous | reply 591 | May 20, 2024 7:34 PM |
Mass murders are rare but hit and runs are frequent
by Anonymous | reply 592 | May 20, 2024 10:19 PM |
[quote]Mass murders are rare but hit and runs are frequent
They're not rare in Chicago!
This is last weekend: 45 people shot.
Wouldn't you think this would be national news? At one time it would have been.
"45 People Shot Over Weekend Across Chicago, Including 6 Injured in Mass Shooting"
by Anonymous | reply 594 | May 21, 2024 12:41 AM |
A pedestrian was shot in the wrist with a Gel Blaster pellet gun in Manhattan on Monday — telling The Post he believes it was random and lamenting, “You never know in this crazy town.’’
by Anonymous | reply 597 | May 21, 2024 5:14 AM |
I grew up in NYC in the 1970s. This is nothing knew. Crime was significantly worse in the 1970s and 1980s. This thread is basically to sensationalize crime in a big city. The crime throughout Florida today is actually unprecedented. In NYC it is not.
by Anonymous | reply 598 | May 21, 2024 11:56 AM |
New York City is desperate for revenue therefore they are going to begin that congestion charge next month. $15 to enter the downtown Monday through Friday – ouch!
by Anonymous | reply 600 | May 21, 2024 12:56 PM |