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NYC sliding towards old blight
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2018-08-02 at 8:50 PM UTCYou try and make things better yet sometimes corruption finds a way to creep around positive change
New York City today: Slow subways, slummy projects, soaring rents
Rick Hampson, USA TODAY Published 11:40 a.m. ET Aug. 2, 2018 | Updated 4:00 p.m. ET Aug. 2, 2018
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NEW YORK — Five years ago this seemed the very model of a modern major city, with its bike lanes, pedestrian plazas and smokeless bars. Outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg even started a pro-bono consulting firm, staffed by veterans of his administration, to tell cities around the world how to solve their problems.
''We have heard this huge demand and need from other cities to learn from New York,'' Amanda Burden, city planning director, told The New York Times. ''New York is the epitome that cities look to of how to get things done.''
These days, however, other cities look at New York and see three great systems in crisis – mass transit, public housing and rent control. Their dysfunction both undercuts Bloomberg's image of a can-do city and afflicts the average New Yorker that his successor, Bill de Blasio, claims to champion.
This summer, New York has endless waits on sweltering, packed subway platforms, where frustrated riders occasionally slug it out; public housing projects contaminated with lead paint, mold and the smell of urine; and housing prices that drive the poor into the street and almost everyone else farther and farther from fabulous Manhattan.
The July cover story in Harper’s Magazine decries New York’s “systematic, wholesale transformation into a reserve of the obscenely wealthy … the world’s largest gated community.’’ The article’s title: “The Death of a Once Great City.’’
After Bloomberg’s we-know-best hubris, and de Blasio’s “tale of two cities’’ campaign rhetoric, it’s been disturbing to learn how city Housing Authority maintenance workers routinely faked paperwork and deceived inspectors; how subway track signals intended to make travel safer have bogged it down; how big landlords are allowed to routinely cheat and bully renters out of their legal rights.
In such times, the city has always looked to the mayor – Fiorello La Guardia in the Depression, Ed Koch after the mid-1970s fiscal crisis, Rudy Giuliani on 9/11 and Bloomberg afterward. Each rallied the populace and became a national figure. -
2018-08-02 at 8:55 PM UTCCliffnotes bitch.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-08-02 at 8:57 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Cliffnotes bitch.
Just read the got damn NY Times. They practicly made Times Square into a small disneyland without the rides with all of the overpriced shops. that place used to be strip clubs and slut tits for sucking in broad daylight. Ask Infinityshock, he spent much of his teen years getting pimped out in Hells KitchenThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-08-02 at 8:58 PM UTC
Originally posted by S6x Just read the got damn NY Times. They practicly made Times Square into a small disneyland without the rides with all of the overpriced shops. that place used to be strip clubs and slut tits for sucking in broad daylight. Ask Infinityshock, he spent much of his teen years getting pimped out in Hells Kitchen
Thanks, got it. -
2018-08-02 at 8:58 PM UTC
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2018-08-02 at 8:59 PM UTCWell that was much shorter and I speed read
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2018-08-02 at 9:04 PM UTC
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2018-08-02 at 9:23 PM UTCRemember NYC from many years ago as a place where you smelled dogshit in the morning when you drove thru apartment complexes. The super would be out there hosing down the sidewalks it still didn't help. Crumbling brick buildings in Chinatown and little Italy. Drug addicts, mental patients and the like walking the streets.
You would be packed like a sardine in the restaurants with the waiter rushing you out. Fuck it just don't like the NYC atmosphere at all. You can have it! -
2018-08-02 at 10:50 PM UTC
Originally posted by RottenRobert Remember NYC from many years ago as a place where you smelled dogshit in the morning when you drove thru apartment complexes. The super would be out there hosing down the sidewalks it still didn't help. Crumbling brick buildings in Chinatown and little Italy. Drug addicts, mental patients and the like walking the streets.
You would be packed like a sardine in the restaurants with the waiter rushing you out. Fuck it just don't like the NYC atmosphere at all. You can have it!
I wouldn't want it for long. Just more of an experience to live there for a bit.
It takes a collective mind to fix shit. You can't expect just the super to do everything even though he gets paid to do it. sometimes if something bothers you, do it yourself and encourage others to be proactive to the same.
the rest of the world is surpassing us in building newer cities or building in older cities and making them newer. but new doesn't change attitudes as much as collective thoughts of the hive-mind. America better get it's shit together soon -
2018-08-03 at 10:40 AM UTC
Originally posted by S6x I wouldn't want it for long. Just more of an experience to live there for a bit.
It takes a collective mind to fix shit. You can't expect just the super to do everything even though he gets paid to do it. sometimes if something bothers you, do it yourself and encourage others to be proactive to the same.
the rest of the world is surpassing us in building newer cities or building in older cities and making them newer. but new doesn't change attitudes as much as collective thoughts of the hive-mind. America better get it's shit together soon
With a president like Trump this country is going in the shitter and LGBT will take over -
2018-08-03 at 10:53 AM UTC
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2018-08-03 at 12:09 PM UTC
Originally posted by RottenRobert With a president like Trump this country is going in the shitter and LGBT will take over
Look on the bright side, if Hillary had won we'd not only be the shitter but the shitter we'd be would be a hole in some African tribal camp that has been abandoned by the tribe because it was so full of shit it was unusable and even after multiple fires it was still unusable. -
2018-08-03 at 1:05 PM UTCSo is de Blasio to blame? He always looked and sounded like a pansy to me.
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2018-08-03 at 8:56 PM UTCHave a lovely weekend Benjamin...young-fella-ma-lad-sonofabich-sonny-jimmy-ma-lad.
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2018-08-03 at 9:03 PM UTC
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2018-08-03 at 9:11 PM UTC
Originally posted by benny vader you mean america now isnt greater than it was back in 2015 ???
For wealthy people on the east coast more than the west.
Someone tried to explain how the people on the east coast get more tax back.. including federal. it was beyond my scope of comprehension but I know that Californian wealthy will have to pay more state taxes than the average state? Trump isn't going to fund schools or roads in "Rogue/Safe Haven" cities.
not sure if it affects the middle class.. but state taxes are ultra high in California. you pay taxes on every fucking thing out here and if Trump choses not to send funding out here.. it gets dumped on the average californian.
though the good news was I heard on the news that the Highway system is going to send much needed funds to FIX THESE FUCKING ROADS. bout time. -
2018-08-03 at 9:20 PM UTC
Originally posted by S6x For wealthy people on the east coast more than the west.
Someone tried to explain how the people on the east coast get more tax back.. including federal. it was beyond my scope of comprehension but I know that Californian wealthy will have to pay more state taxes than the average state? Trump isn't going to fund schools or roads in "Rogue/Safe Haven" cities.
not sure if it affects the middle class.. but state taxes are ultra high in California. you pay taxes on every fucking thing out here and if Trump choses not to send funding out here.. it gets dumped on the average californian.
though the good news was I heard on the news that the Highway system is going to send much needed funds to FIX THESE FUCKING ROADS. bout time.
thats becos you all wouldnt give him his fences.
anyway, america today is 3years more advanced than it was back in 2015.
