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Monday, August 7. 2017

Pining for a gritty NYC


I thought this piece in TNR was preposterous: Who Killed New York City?


Perhaps the author has not read about what Manhattan was like in the David Dinkins era. You can keep that kind of gritty if you want it with the muggings and the morning dead in the parks from gunshot and ODs. What is most obnoxious about the false-sentimentality of it is that the author seems to see Manhattan as NYC.


The author needs to get off the magic island and hike around like the Forgotten New York guy does.  There are a lot of neighborhoods in New York, most not Dinkins-era gritty anymore but many fairly rugged and ungentrified. Regular people live there. Millions of them.

Posted by The News Junkie in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 16:16 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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New York is still vibrant and wonderful, but in decline (again) thanks to leftist policy implementation.

Cronyism is at all time highs.

Passing the buck is par for the course, and if you need any examples, just pay attention to the problems of the schools and public transit.
#1 Bulldog on 2017-08-07 16:41 (Reply)
I thought this piece in TNR was preposterous: Who Killed New York City?

My cousin has lived in the Lower East Side for decades. In the 80's, her street was a drug dealer bazaar. Today, in addition to the old shops, there are a few bars for better-off youngsters. No more open air drug bazaar. Seems an improvement to me.

Give DeBlasio a couple of terms. He'll make it worse.
#2 Gringo on 2017-08-07 17:59 (Reply)
Well, I've noticed they don't play them to often, but the first couple seasons of Law and Order have a very gritty NYC as the backdrop in the real on the street scenes.
#3 JK Brown on 2017-08-07 18:23 (Reply)
"The increasingly white and rich city was made exponentially more so by Rudy Giuliani, the rat king of broken-windows policing that criminalized so much street life;"

What a load of crap. This mutt never lived in the Manhattan prior to Giuliani, where you DID NOT walk west of 9th Ave in the 40's or 50' after dark.

Period. Anyone who says different is full of shit.

When the Port Authority Bus Terminal and neighborhood was a drug infested hooker paradise, all along 42nd St. to 6th Avenue.

When you took your freaking life in your hands to walk around Alphabet City, Avenue A, B,C and Houston St. north any time after dark.

The subways? The gangs in Central Park? The rapes? The drug murders? "Rat-King"? My ass.

He saved NYC and turned Times Square into a family friendly Disneyland theme park, from a shit hole hooker paradise.

Anyone disagree? You never lived here in the Koch-Dinkins time.

Period.
#4 Scullman on 2017-08-07 19:25 (Reply)
"The increasingly white and rich city..."

The author is racist. It is vogue to be racist in favor of minorities or non-white but it is simply racism. In the future we will look back and consider these people to be more like the KKK than MLK.
#4.1 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-08-08 09:44 (Reply)
On my first day of work in NYC, I used the men's room in Grand Central terminal. It was basically a shooting gallery but nobody bothered me because I'm pretty big. As I got to the top of the stairs leaving the rest room a guy said to me, "You went in there? I wouldn't go in there myself!" The guy was a NYC uniformed policeman!
#5 DMW on 2017-08-07 20:18 (Reply)
Yes, we should definitely go back to the wonderful times as sung by the Rolling Stones in Shattered.
#6 Ken in NH on 2017-08-08 00:41 (Reply)
"When the Port Authority Bus Terminal and neighborhood was a drug infested hooker paradise"

A black gay science fiction writer who was born in New York has said that those were the good old days cruelly ended by those evil white republicans. Go figure.
#7 Pst314 on 2017-08-11 08:58 (Reply)

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