Posted on 06/11/2016 7:18:17 AM PDT by C19fan
We moved clear out on the Olympic Peninsula - about as far away from NYC as we could get. I wouldn’t accept a free paid all expense holiday to NYC.
I’m astonished people thought food trucks smelled bad - some of the best smells in NYC come from walking past them! When I took classes at NYU a few years ago, there was a Vietnamese coffee truck outside the building where I took the classes. I had never had it before and became readily addicted. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find them this year - perhaps they moved on to greener pastures. I love food trucks.
It’s like a combo of Potterville and Tokyo. Not on any human scale.
FYI Sidney Torres’ company had the Quarter smelling lemony and clean-almost
Disney like. That ended when the politicians ended his companies contract. They wanted their cronies to make the $$ so its back to the traditional “ambience” stench. Can’t have it smelling like a civilized place and ruin the funky fun.
I’ve lived all my 54 years in NYC.(Bronx actually) I’ve traveled to Manhattan every day for 20 years for work. I love NY and it will always have a piece of my heart. I will be relocating down to NC next month to be closer to my grandchildren. I still have a lot of family up here and have every intention of coming back a lot to visit. My parents are buried up here in St. Raymonds Cemetary. I guess you have to live here and learn to live with the ups and downs of NYC. That said, there is no other greater place on this earth than NYC. (Excluding DeBlasio and crew of course!)
Wow. That defies description.
My time in NYC goes back to the 50s when I lived and worked there. also had 2 of my kids there. A different time, I know.
But after moving to NJ I was often back into the city for classes and my frequent trips to Chinatown. (Talk about smells!! Down there it was called aromas!!)
A lot depends on the mayor!! Big changes under Giuliani. Need more mayors like him!
My own experience was glancing at a mixed bunch of bums sitting on the benches outside the Boston Public Library.
A bag lady stood up, hiked up her dress, let loose, and sat back down. Not quite the streets, but not behind a bu.., er, shrubbery, either.
So as an example of bad NY, you’re telling me about an incident in Boston and a paid Soros thug?
North Carolina is not that far away - we go down there every year to spend Thanksgiving with friends.
My parents have recently been buried in St. John’s in Queens. And yes, maybe you have to live here, perhaps be born here, to ‘get’ it.
Bon voyage and I hope you enjoy your extended family. It’s a very nice state.
Never been to any large cities except Houston and Boston-and didn’t smell anything unpleasant. I wasn’t aware that certain cities stink.
Glad I live in a city by the sea..never smell anything but fresh salt air.
Probably the closest was bar hopping in the Lower East Side in the mid-1980s. One of my coworkers grew up in the projects, and was showing us around.
And the area happened to be purged of bums for a movie shoot that night.
Rancid?
The one and only visit there in '93 --- the place smelled like a sewage treatment plant.
Lets not forget the men of color who can now relieve themselves in the street without getting arrested, thank you douchebag deblasio
I have you a perfectly straight answer. NYC smells like pee, because for 500 years there’s been pee on streets. Maybe nobody’s peeing on the streets now, but it’s soaked in.
Been there, it smells like pee. Doesn’t matter if nobody if nobody’s peeing there now, the damage has been done over hundreds of year. Most old cities that had a lot of horse traffic smell like pee. It’s the nature of hundreds of years of accumulated filth. It doesn’t go away.
I’m hoping that your remark is a joke but I’m fearing it’s not.
Truth is truth. And the truth is NYC, like most old cities that have been large and well populated for a long time, smells. It’s just how things are. No joke, simple basic reality. Not a big deal. Most sane people recognize it, accept it, and move on. Now’s your chance to prove you’re sane.
Actually, I’m beginning to think you’re just smelling yourself.
You shouldn’t take things personally that aren’t personal. I didn’t say it smells of YOUR pee, just OF pee. It’s a natural normal thing in old cities. For most of human history, especially in the west, we weren’t really... particular... about where we peed. And horses still aren’t. At that kind of stuff, when it happens day after day, for years, centuries even, soaks in really well, and effuses for a long time. It’s like a dog run, if you let a bunch of dogs do their business in the same chunk of the yard for years, that chunk of yard will not smell spring time fresh for quite a while afterwards. Maybe in another century or so NYC will get better. San Fransisco still has a long way to go, worst smelling place I’ve ever been, worse than Mexico.
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