Oh, lots of people here know me as the ultimate NYC booster. Some hate me for it but others write me privately that they love the city.
But it’s just fact that no NYer hangs out in Times Square unless going to the theater or going to a restaurant. In the old days, it was also a place to go to the movies.
Oh, I don’t love the city at all. That’s why I left 15 years ago. But what really gets my goat are the FReepers who come out cutting down NY and NYers, but don’t know WTH they are talking about. However, that never seems to keep them from shooting their keyboards off.
One time I got into it with another FReeper who told me he KNEW the city and he KNEW NYers. Where did he get this knowledge? He had spent one night and two days in Manhattan.....back in the 60s. Talking with people like that about the city is nothing but a waste of time IMO. That’s why I’m conversing with you and I no longer bother with the idiot yahoos on this subject.