Why is New York City such a dump?

Why is New York City such a dump?

Because it is full of New Yorkers

That’s the “flavor” and diversity we all want in this country. Gives NY street cred.

That’s just after Ida. The tunnel looks like it was flooded and not yet cleaned up.

Yes, R3. Ida made sure to graffiti every square millimeter of the subway. Even the electronic displays.

I'd rather DIE than live in the shithole that is NYC!

OP you must be the basic bitch who started a thread recently about how ugly NYC is. No one is forcing you to visit. Go to Orlando and leave NYC to the people who appreciate it.

Corruption. Nothing can be improved because the red tape and everyone has their hand out. The downside of a liberal government.

r5, I 100 percent agree. I'd rather you die than live here.

Notice these poster NEVER reveal the shitty place where they live.

How can you tell whether someone is a New Yorker ?

Answer: Because they tell you.

Smell the cranky bitch above getting pissy because someone doesn't want to live in the shitehole.

R9 I've heard that same joke but for pilots. You're not as clever as you think you are.

awww r9 is too poor to live in a city.

Anyone here who actually takes the time to bitch about NYC has a bee in their bonnets, poor (and I do mean poor), bitter little things that they are. You girls are so basic.

[quote] Why is New York City such a dump?

Scores of inmates serving time on Rikers Island are being considered for early release as part of a desperate bid by Mayor Bill de Blasio to deal with the shortage of correction officers willing to work there, The Post has learned.

The horde of ex-cons would comprise the second wave of convicted criminals granted early release since last year, when officials used the COVID-19 pandemic to justify putting around 300 jailbirds back on the streets.

Those inmates were among more than 1,500 who were freed last year due to the coronavirus crisis, reducing the city’s jail population to 4,363 — a level not seen since in more than 70 years.

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Fire the cops and free the cons.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz...

You *do* love to troll, r13.

If New Yorkers weren't such pigs they could have beautiful Metro stations like those in Stockholm

^^^^

Another

Besides Stockholm there is the Moscow metro.

Who wants to live in a tidy, dull city like Stockholm? Besides Swedes that is?

Seems the flyovers are feeling pressed about the greatest city in the world again. Why, has New York been featured prominently in a movie … again? Far and away the most featured city in the movies. Can you flyovers guess why?

Yeah New Yorkers make the films

Budget cuts. That station has zero security. Graffiti queens are children with uncontrollable urges to scribble and smear the their shit on a wall.

Stockholm is incredible.

The Stockholm subway station looks like it was built inside Ingmar Bergman's asshole.

R6 Bred to believe that NYC is the greatest city in the world

[quote]If New Yorkers weren't such pigs they could have beautiful Metro stations like those in Stockholm

Almost no one lives in Stockholm in comparison with NYC, so the subway system gets used much, much less over there.

Plus their subway system is 70 years younger than NY's.

Discusting I tell ya 🤡

That narrator is ONE WHINY BITCH. I actually like the colorful graffiti in that tunnel. It’s probably more visually appealing and imaginative than the “artwork” that preceded it.

[Quote]Almost no one lives in Stockholm in comparison with NYC, so the subway system gets used much, much less over there.

And the Swedes don't shit on the platforms. That's helpful

[quote]If New Yorkers weren't such pigs they could have beautiful Metro stations like those in Stockholm

You cannot compare anywhere else in the world to Northern European countries, which are the most pristine and orderly in the world.

[quote]Yeah New Yorkers make the films

Have you heard of Hollywood, Cletus?

Stockholm may be clean but it is nowhere near as fun as NYC, kind of a stupid comparison. May as well compare New Orleans and Singapore.

Tokyo, London and Hong Kong rail transit systems (just the ones off the top of my head) are all way nicer than the NYC subway.

^ The second busiest transit system in the US the Metro Rail in DC is also much cleaner and safer than the New York Shitty Subway.

Didn't the US just stop investing in infrastructure anywhere in about 1980?

It's bound to bite you on the ass at some point.

The NYC subway system was the first and, for over a hundred years since the subway system's inception in 1904, the ONLY 24-hour subway system in the world. Of course, the dumb cunts on this thread don't think of that. Because they're basic bitches who don't (can't) live in NYC.

Your bile makes me laugh.

R36 The London Underground was operating 24hrs part of the week prior to Covid, there currently isn't any demand but it will return in 2022.

It will also be expanded at a future point.

[quote] Tokyo, London and Hong Kong rail transit systems (just the ones off the top of my head) are all way nicer than the NYC subway.

That’s only because if you so much as drop a gum wrapper you’re executed on the spot, right in front of anyone.

Why doesn’t the whiny bitch filming the subway station get a trash bag and a grabber tool and start cleaning up some trash if it bothers him so much?

Boston subways are much cleaner.

R38, LOL. Funny.

[quote] That’s only because if you so much as drop a gum wrapper you’re executed on the spot, right in front of anyone.

Good idea. Singapore is clean as a whistle. Why? Public caning for gum chewing and a host of similarly painful punishments for people who lack manners in public. We should consider it.

r36 some of us DO live in NY but we can bitch about certain things in NY (think Fran Lebowitz). And we're familiar with other countries.

Bile or experience R36? Moved out of NYC in 2006 after16 years. crowded, over-built, noisy, dangerous, dirty, nightlife died and corporate chains everywhere. Rarely took the subway when I did live there.

R42 American’s have freedum and would also abuse the reporting to get their enemies caned.

I'd report the cute guys.

Yes, our subway system is a bit of a mess, OP, but that’s because it has been mismanaged and poorly financed/maintained for a long time now. A big part of the mess comes from the budget/control of the MTA.

I believe only about 10% of the budget comes from the city with the rest being controlled by Albany. This means the subway becomes a negotiating tool for the politicians to get what they want and it’s the people and the tracks that suffer because of it. After decades of skimping on signal and track maintenance, we’re suffering the consequences now.

I hope that Adams and who becomes the new governor can work together to better fund and fix the subway’s problems.

That said, NYC is still fucking amazing and has seen a rebirth coming out of the pandemic. Empty storefronts are slowly being rented again and fresh, new businesses are popping up. Theater is returning, movie theaters are full (my showing of La Piscine at Film Forum was quite crowded) and restaurants are abuzz. New York is far from dead.

And as shitty as our subway can be sometimes, it still gets you where you need to go.

Why is a once great city such a dump? Big Bird and Fredo.

Gum isn't much chewed outside the US, R38.

r44, And yet 15 years later your entire identity, literally, is when you lived here.

R20, Far and away the most featured city in the movies?. I suspect there are more movies that take place in Los Angeles, than in NYC. How many Film Noir movies are there, and how many of them take place in NYC compared to LA?

A typical NYC subway ride.

NYC is awesome. Lived there since 1995. And the graffiti at 191st is cool.

[Quote]the ONLY 24-hour subway system in the world. Of course, the dumb cunts on this thread don't think of that.

What does this have to do with the filth, black mold, shit on walls, etc?

There's an absence of civic pride.

How many of DL's New Yorkers are in rent-controlled hovels they've been in for decades and are living on $50,000 a year?

R20 film makers loved NY for its sense of urban chaos and decay: Midnight Cowboy, The Warriors, Mean Streets, Little Murders, Death Wish. The French Connection, Klute, The Pawnbroker, Do the Right Thing, Shaft, Across 110th Street, Escape from New York, The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three, Fort Apache the Bronx, West Side Story, Smithereens, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Summer of Sam, Rent, Ms. 45, State of Grace, The Out of Towners, Bad Lieutenant, Basketball Diaries, Bringing Out the Dead, Panic Room, Uncut Gems, Dressed to Kill, After Hours, Liquid Sky, Hi, Mom! Desperate Characters, The Possession of Joel Delaney, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Fingers, Gloria

September 2021 in Manhattan

It's been a dump since the early nineteenth century, at least. Even in the most glamorous and romantic era you can imagine since then, it still was a dump if you were poor.

It's always when you're younger, and metropolitan centers seem mysterious and romantic, that you neglect to see how trashed they always are. When you get older you think they suddenly became dumps, because it's unimaginable to you that you used to see cities through rose-colored glasses.

That's a unique station, the deepest in the subway system, and most directly accessed by elevators. This tunnel entrance does not belong to MTA and is known as a dangerous entrance- it's officially called "Tunnel street". Non-subway users also use that tunnel and then take the elevators up as a way of avoiding a very steep hill climb if they are on foot. I wouldn't take that tunnel as representative of the NYC subway system. N one can pretend that the NY subways are works of art like the Moscow subways. They are dirty, noisy, utilitarian at best. But NY is also not the capitol of a totalitarian country, where the poor peasants all over the nation in shithole villages without running water or toilets are taxed to pay to beautify the capitol as a propaganda effort to make the entire country appear rich and glamorous. As a matter of fact, the rich of New York are taxed heavily to support rural people in rural states live more comfortable lives.

The rich in New York find one million ways to avoid paying their fair share of taxes, don't kid yourself.

Which is why the arts have become so expensive. The rich don't pay their fair share of taxes and no longer give a shit about opera, ballet, music and museums. You think those Saudi and Russian billionaires care about NY beyond money laundering?

True r61. The foreign scumbags are only interested in parking their ill-gotten money in real estate, it's a giant scam. They care nothing about NYC or America in general. And nothing is done about it.

191st? It goes up that high? Can you imagine? Yikes. We don't recommend leaving the seventies.

R62's idea of a foreign scumbag is someone from New Jersey.

No r64 I fucking live here and every New Yorker knows who these foreign scumbags are.

[quote] 191st? It goes up that high? Can you imagine? Yikes. We don't recommend leaving the seventies.

Most of the eldergays in this thread haven't gotten laid since then.

We need that 3tn infrastructure bill. Pete will fix it, to the extent reasonable. New York is the crown jewel of the US I think we all agree, how begrudgingly by some.

But I'd add the graffiti looks great. Nor as wonderful add it was in the 1970s and 80s. Why is that, would some graffiti art connoisseurs care to venture?

Where are the Harings, Hambletons and Lady Pinks of today. I'm shocked the best graffiti artist working today is in England.

[quote]Where are the Harings, Hambletons and Lady Pinks of today.

They work in tech now. Lots of people who in previous generations would've been artists are now in tech.

NY cultivates Adderall Zombies rather than artists now

NY is full of wealthy kids living off their parents. Nobody else in that age group can afford to live there.

Hey, enough about me and my social circle, R71!

They are ignorant of economics and they vote for politicians who demonstrate similar ignorance. This is what you get when your parents don't teach you how to do things for yourself.

[R57] At first, I thought that was Lens, then remembered she has tattoos.

R11 No darling, times have changed and if you can't afford to LEAVE the city then you're the one that's poor.

Bill de Blasio

de Blasio expects New Yorkers to be beaten, robbed, raped, and killed.... and then, and ONLY then, are they allowed to defend themselves with a gun if necessary.

This all started after the disastrous changes to our immigration laws in 1965. I wish I would have been alive then to travel the country and to Europe before it was ruined.

Ridiculous video. In Fall 2018 I was in rehearsals in that part of the city and used that station stop and walked that long, colorful tunnel every day for three or four straight weeks. It's a great station.

He's making this video after Hurricane Ida whipped through town during a pandemic. Screw him. You want suburbia, have at it.