Posted on 07/24/2023 8:42:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
My first year of college was spent at CCNY in Manhattan. I took the subway every day to get to class. This was back in the early 70s. Even then it was risky. You definitely needed to hone your situational awareness skills.
You never, NEVER stood near the edge of the platform waiting for the train. Even back then there were people getting pushed onto the tracks.
The subways are just the street level filth moved underground. The only thing worse than the subterranean human rats are the democrat scum that run the city and their voters.
If he hasn’t ridden the subways in 15 years, why is he writing about it? I was just there for 10 days. Rode the suways a lot, east and westside of Manhattan, and Queens. Much better than two years ago. More people, that’s for sure. Some down-and-outers and riffraff, but more so on the streets.
Sounds great! Everyone should go and take their children.
However, the Ken Kesey book (and later movie) "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" pretty much destroyed the mental hospital system in America. Their image became one of stern Nurse Ratchets force-feeding pills to patients to keep them calm and compliant.
Now these people are out on the streets. Still taking drugs but not so calm and compliant anymore.
The mental instituation industry was a large one. My hometown of Newtown, CT still has a large section of abandoned brick buildings that attest to that.
Put them all on a dump scow and tow them out to the dump grounds and dump, return for next load.
It’s ridiculous that the finger pointing game continues. The City just says the subway is governed by the State so there’s nothing we can do. Meanwhile the people who actually need to get back and forth to work suffer.
Pretty sure that one of us, talking out loud.. How else do you explain Biden?
Yeah, and he’d carry his target rifle on the school bus on practice days and put it in his locker. After school the team went to the range which was in the basement of the school to shoot. He couldn’t afford a rifle bag and carried it openly.
When I was in Tokyo several years back, everyone was so sickening polite. Everyone would line up on these yellow strips and when the train pulled in, the car doors would line up exactly one those strips. The only time there was any sort of pushing and shoving was during rush hour and they had these men in uniform as pushers to push folks into the cars, rather like jamming them in. Too funny. I never went to the city during that time.
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Bronx 1940s
Same problem on a smaller scale in Chicago. It’s not just the homeless and mentally ill though. They’ve always been using the trains as a second home. The real change, here at least, is that during COVID, when the schools closed, all the “teens” started hanging out on the subway all day long, drinking, smoking, smoking weed, etc. It became a moving party (for them) and a much more dangerous place for everyone else.
Some of them left when the schools re-opened but I’d estimate about 1/4 of them didn’t. I’ve even seen drug dealers now openly walking up and down the train cars advertising that they have cocaine for sale. Never seen that before in my life.
“to go hunting?”
Just because they were carrying hunting rifles doesn’t mean they were going hunting. Many schools used to have their own shooting clubs, and kids would bring their rifles to school with them.
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