I was watching a show about street food and they talked to a hot dog vendor in NYC. He started with one cart in the early 1980's after serving in the Marines in Vietnam, and said that by the late 1990's he had the most street carts in the city with almost 200.
Then Giuliani passed a law that each person could only have one permit, and he lost his entire business except for one cart. He set up by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and got harassed by the cops for his location. He kept moving his cart a few feet to technically comply with their orders and eventually they arrested him.
His vignette ended with a shot of his hot dog cart right in front of the door of the Met, and he said he was going to keep working till he was 90, and that the cops still give him a hard time.
I can't imagine a more horrible, anti-human place to live than NYC. The time and money they put into harassing a productive business owner instead of solving the millions of problems that plague that place- astounding.
You just don't get it. Sure new yorkers live in a disease-ridden food desert with dependence on their betters for all basic needs in life, paying their life savings for the privilege of living in a poorly insulated box where the neighbors can be heard fighting, fucking, then fighting again in the span of a few hours, walking streets that literally smell like shit and dodging the absolute worst drivers on the face of the planet, but they've got good netflix. You have to be there to understand it.
"Just think of all the restaurants and museums! It's like living in your favorite TV sitcom!"
Big cities like this keep the wretched refuse from spilling into rural areas.
Imagine if all these worthless hipsters, gang bangers, criminals, foodies, liberals, etc. moved to where you live.
Water fills the shape of its vessel.
It's the model city for the new world order though.
Ultra-dense rats nests of diversity , degeneracy, and despair.
Hive cities. Disgusting.
NYC has that "enchanted calling" of the mega-cities and their many vices and opportunities.
New York has the same problem LA which as heightened version of the problem all cities have. They destroy the old to make way for the new rather than adapting and retrofitting whats there.
The architecture of a city tells you a lot about it's policies, those that simply adapt or improve what's there are focused on having links to the past while trying to make it apply to the present while those that tear down the old for new, sterile glass buildings are more focused on progress for the sake of progress not caring for the consequences.
Hmm. Not really. I tried but anything positive I can think of is either marred by the annoying people involved, crime, vandalism, generally poor management, is ridiculously expensive, or a better version of the same thing exists somewhere else. Literally only reason to go there is sightseeing the famous tourist spots if seeing them in pictures wasn't good enough.
Didn't know that about Giuliani either that's complete bullshit.
Not anymore.
As a kid I used to like going into NYC. There was always something to do, something to look at, something to eat.
Now it just feels like an endless stream of anxiety. Everyone looks stressed, they're always trying to get somewhere, and god help you if you have to drive in it.
And this is coming from someone who doesn't even live there. Living in a city where you aren't allowed to defend yourself, with criminals all over the place sounds like a nightmare.
I guess some people can't stand the Great Outdoors. Their hobbies include dining out, alcoholism, and bumping into other people. I guess if you like to watch theater, NYC is a good place to do that? Yeah, probably live entertainment, in general, if that's your thing. It would never be worth the tradeoffs, for me, but at least consooming music is a valid thing to do.
I've known people who lived in a borough around NY all their lives who have packed up and moved away from that place. It's just not the same city anymore. It might have been nice at one time, maybe. I couldn't tell as a passing tourist having only ever been once. But from what I've been told, by at least a dozen people is that the city is well and truly gone, and they got out while they could still turn a profit to move elsewhere.
The best thing about almost any urban area are the roads leading out.
The pizza, I guess. But you don't need to be in the city to get that.
Sad thing though is that Giuliani was one of the better mayors in that shitty. It's only gotten worse with every new mayor since then with their increasingly soft on crime policies. Violent crime, that is.
I like their style of pizza…… or at least what local restaurants call their style of pizza.
The city looks cool from aerial photos. That's... about it?
It serves a valuable purpose of trying to make Toronto look good by comparison.
It doesn't always succeed, but it tries.
Definitely NOT the place to live when the power grid is destroyed.
NYC's "Fun City" days in the '70s were rotten, but this time the WEF/NWO plan to bankrupt small businesses for the benefit of multinationals has hollowed the city out completely, making it, like LA, a place for the disgustingly rich to live above the rabble, watching from giant roach-infested apartments fifty floors up as "people of color" tear each other to bits and caravans of U-Hauls move everyone else out.
I've only been there once, many years ago. Was really nice to visit, not gonna lie, but certainly not somewhere I'd want to live. And it's gotten substantially worse since then.
There's plenty of good things about NYC, it's sad that it's just so overshadowed by terrible governance. NYC could be great, just like many big cities could be. But they're usually not.
What was the show? Sounds interesting, I wanna learn more about this guy.
A show about street foods from Netflix. I think it was the second or third episode. They did LA and Portland too, but that guy was the only one with distopian vibes to his story.
I hope you were pirating that show.
LOL. It's a relative's account. There are at least three households using it.
But I hear they're going to crack down on that soon. I'm certainly not going to pay, so it's not like they're going to get new customers out of that move, they'll just get the bandwidth we're all using back.