Posted on 07/04/2020 8:10:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I always thought I would retire in New York City. I grew up there.
In the 1950s it was a pretty great place. It’s hard to believe now that my friends and I, eight years old or so, would shoot up the Jerome-Woodlawn line to the Bronx by ourselves and sit in the bleachers to watch the beloved Yankees, debating who was better, Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays, until it was too late to be home for dinner.
Nowadays, no middle-class parent, or any parent if they have their head screwed on even faintly right, would even consider such a thing for a kid that age. It’s far too dangerous, to put it mildly.
The city’s in flames—figuratively, morally and literally, emphasis on the literally—with the murder rate more than doubling from last year and shootings up 45 percent. (Not that anybody, as Nicole Gelinas wrote in the NY Post, seems to care.)
The truth is New Yorkers have no one to blame but themselves for the drastic decline of their once fabulous city that was the envy of the world not all that long ago.
They can claim they didn’t know Bill de Blasio would be the worst civic politician since Nero but they did elect the man, and they had a perfect example from the 1990s for what that would mean.
Those were the days David Dinkins was mayor. Cops were handicapped, and NYC was as riddled with crime as Gotham in the Batman movies. With de Blasio we have, in the words of that quintessential New Yorker Yogi Berra, déjà vu all over again. Only in this case it’s worse, much worse, with no signs of improvement.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
Now most of the New Yorkers I speak with on the phone (It’s hard for me to go there. As a resident of Tennessee, I’d have to self-isolate for two weeks) want to get out. They wonder aloud if they could sell their apartments—once a real estate goldmine.
Others are already out, living in vacation homes in Connecticut or Long Island with no immediate plans to return.
Who can blame them when you watch the crazed Hieronymus Bosch-like goings on outside City Hall (for how many days now?) with protesters demanding yet more pounds of flesh, never to be satisfied, from the same people—the police—who gave their lives for them on 9/11?
Me too. I worked in NYC after I got my MBA. I loved NYC. We'd take cab rides for lunch to China Town or Little Italy. Walk down a street and find five amazing restaurants.
Not now.
“would shoot up the Jerome-Woodlawn line”
What kind of talk is that?
some diversity is beneficial, some is nice, some is acceptable and not a problem, and some diversity is problematical
there are all shades of diversity
Well, NYC had a good 20 years run ( Under Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg ). The 2014 came and people simply got bored and just sat on their collective butts during the November elections that year where only 21% of eligible voters bothered to vote.
De Blasio easily won with over 70% of the votes over the competent but hapless Joe Lohta ( the Commissioner of the MTA, who received virtually no support from the GOP ). That same indifference happened again in 2018 when De Blasio was re-elected.
NYC will have to endure 2 more years of this hell. After that, who knows what will happen...
I’ve never seen any ‘shade of diversity’ beneficial... It becomes a problem when you start calling it ‘diversity’.
I am offering $10.00 to anyone who gets the reference. To be divided should more than one qualify.
Retire in NYC? Well, these days, if you think you’re going to hell, you could consider it getting a head start :-)
well, I must respectfully disagree. I like some diversity in a community, it all depends on the kinds of people and their basic ethical/moral standards of course
That city is being fast tracked back into the 1970s; Escpate from NY, The Warriors, Death Wish, etc
You know those lights were bright on Broadway
That was so many years ago
Before we all lived here in Florida
Before the Mafia took over Mexico
There are not many who remember
They say a handful still survive
To tell the world about
The way the lights went out
And keep the memory alive
Billy Joel - Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
That is determined by a case by case basis which we do with all people.
We all have a ‘measure’ we use.....which frankly shouldn’t be anybody’s business. We run into problems when we label it diversity (by race , culture or whatever ‘seperation’ we use to distinguish)rather than the indivudal as they are.
We’re all just people meeting people along the way. ......and we need to just let it be as that.
I grew up in SoCal in the 50s. It too was a great place. I would ride the P.E. (Pacific Electric aka the Red Car) by myself at 10 or 11 from Long Beach to L.A. to visit an aunt and uncle. They’d meet me at the downtown terminal—even then sketchy at best, but still safe for a kid by himself. The P.E. went through Watts and Willowbrook—lots of “diversity” but still no problems.
It was a better world then—Just saying.
The Jerome-Woodlawn line refers to the subway.
I just spit bug juice on my device screen. That was funny. Who talks like that?
I like some diversity too....problem arises when diverse people fail to integrate to community values...VALUES is what is important....good ones, that is...
You missed the point, it’s all fine till it is labeled diversity. Then it turns to do do. That is my experience also.
The Jerome-Woodlawn line is the #4 train. Took it to high school in the early 60s.
http://web.mta.info/nyct/service/fourline.htm
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