Posted on 06/11/2016 7:18:17 AM PDT by C19fan
MY son and family visit yearly,my daughter and her family just got back.Another daughter lived there in the 80s. Another son worked and lived there for 22 years.
We all love NYC.
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This story is wack.
The worst smell comes from the sewers when it hasn’t rained in a while. Then they forgot the Halal carts, which don’t smell so bad if you haven’t tasted the food. If you have, you don’t want to be reminded of it. And people who ride public transportation shouldn’t eat garlic. Other than the occasional schizophrenic homeless person, that’s really about it.
We’re near the ocean. We have crosswind. This person is just trying to earn its monthly rent.
I lived in Washington Heights for 8 years. Are you speaking to the spell of Dominican drug sales and trash everywhere?
I was in the French Quarter in April. Bourbon Street had a noticeable stench. Sort of a watered down vomit smell. The rest of the area just smelled like big city. We stayed on Canal Street which was had no odor.
I’m almost sorry I commented here because it generally releases the usual ‘I Hate New York Although I’ve Never Been There” crowd or the “I Lived There But Now Live in Topeka” crowd.
The problems with smells (which I haven’t noticed yet) are from the overflowing garbage, generally, that overwhelms the city due to the influx of visitors in summer. The trash cans get easily overwhelmed and weirdly, they don’t wash the garbage trucks enough so that even empty ones smell bad.
But the idea that people are urinating in the streets is a myth. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen but after nearly 40 years in Manhattan, I’ve never seen it. And the city is excellent in curbing its dogs.
Why would the Mayor want more homeless in the city?
Guess it’s mostly the alleys now. But up until the car won in the 20th there was always something peeing in the streets.
Easy....liberals.
Alleys? What alleys? Shubert? Sorry, was there last night and with the exception of moron tourists, it was perfectly clean and respectable.
Turn a blind eye if you must, but the nose knows. NYC reeks of pee, SOMEBODY must be providing it.
No, I’m asking you a question: what alleys are you talking about? I live here and don’t see too many alleys. But you must know where they are - you know, the ones where people are lining up to urinate.
No you’re erecting a strawman for no good reason, and I have better things to do with my time. I quite simply will not get into pissing contest about the pee in NYC.
Lot of stereotypes about NYC that just aren't true. I moved there recently and spend most of my workday in Manhattan and the boroughs. I worked in Boston a number of years and held the same opinions of NYC that most people here seem to have.
I've now been here about two years. When I work out of my mid-town office, I spend a good hour at lunchtime walking around. Sometimes I take the subway and walk back to my office from Battery Park or I'll go to 110th St and walk back to my office from there through Central Park.
So I spend a lot of time outdoors in NYC.
I have never seen anybody urinating. There are bums but no more (on a proportional basis) than you see in any major city.
Infrastructure runs pretty well. I've only been late to work once in two years due to train delays. You can get a taxi ride 24/7. Subways run very efficiently and if you mind your own business, you don't get bothered, even at night. The few times I drive there, I find the street grids and parkways pretty easy to navigate and it's easy to get around (parking does present a challenge in some areas). I'm pretty amazed on how sophisticated the water and sewage system is. I read a book on it once and was quite impressed. I can be on the 45th floor of my building and get clean water from the tap that is better than those $5 bottled waters they sell on the ground floor at the Duane Reade!
I find the people there, not the tourists but the natives, much friendlier than the people in Boston.
The food is better than anywhere I have been in the world.
I can go and on.
With regard to the article, there is no doubt that you can run across some pretty rancid smells in NYC. Especially in the hot weather. I don't see how that is different in any other major city. It's not due to people peeing in the streets however. Probably rotting food waste in a restaurant trash bin or a smelly bum who hasn't taken a bath in about a year. The upside is that within seconds, you get a chance to walk by a food truck or duck into one of the many shops that have very nice smells.
I had a similar experience when I was 6 and we escaped from Shitcago in 1949. Getting out of that horrible place was the hapiest day in my life. Now my two big dogs and I live on two wooded acres in semi-rural southwest Knox County about 22 miles away from downtown Knoxville. Not only that, but most of us are Republicans, so much so that my Republican state representative didn’t have a DemonCrap opponent.
Pretty much how we feel out here in Kansas as well.
But we can flail our arms about as wide as we want and not hit anyone for about 15 miles.
I moved to New York City back in 1990. A little while after I arrived, there was an accident on the Subway under Union Square just after midnight, and five people were killed.
I remember reading the newspaper the next day, and the had a picture and bio of the five people who were killed, at random, on the Subway. Every single one of them looked like somebody I would try to avoid on the Subway after Midnight, and every single one of them was just a regular working stiff coming home from a job or studying at the library, and was just unlucky to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
After that, I stopped worrying about who I was riding with on the Subway.
Perhaps a government grant is needed to fully understand the complexities of this phenomenon....
Your brother and i must be kindred spirits. Ever since 2009, I’ve been seeing our whole nation turn into “Potterville,” and have thought often of that very same analogy.
Most of downtown New Orleans lacks the “aroma” of Bourbon Street, which is sort of a historical feature of the city. In the summer, it’s easy to picture the women in upstairs rooms emptying chamber pots on the heads of occupying Union soldiers. ;-)
LOL. I knew you couldn’t give me a straight answer. You rely on clichés.
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