EMAIL FROM ONE OF MY FAMOUS SUBSCRIBERS, posted here with her permission (only names and full street address removed):
<<You nailed it! And what about the rats! I can't step outside of my full floor pre-war coop on Park avenue without worrying about constant scurrying at my feet. This is no "honey I love you but give me park avenue!" And as you said, NYC, like so many great cities, is a walking city but now I'm afraid to walk (for good reason.) Sure there were always homeless people but I never feared that they might attack me. Now I do. And many have also joined my outside dining table as we like any good hostages just try to be nice, praying they'll get up. Sure NYC was dirty, but I never saw rats and garbage everywhere. And I don't recall that the scent of the city was pot smoke. I grew up in the '70s and NYC was dangerous but frankly I think the upper east side was safer than it is today. Plus we all carried a dollar to give to a would-be mugger. The understanding was as long as you gave them something they wouldn't hurt you. Today I assume they'd kill me. We used to drop our car off at our garage around the corner when we drove in late and walk to our building. Today I make my husband drop me off first. It's insane and unlivable.>>
In a rational world, the millions of New Yorkers who have been similarly terrorized, victimized, inconvenienced and put-upon as Ann has would be storming City Hall, demanding radical change, screaming for duh Mayor's head or all three. Instead we hear crickets from all except Ann, and the Governor informs New Yorkers that anyone with personal views not in line with the fashionable 'progressive' agenda that has destroyed the city are unwelcome and should leave.
This is Liberalism in a nutshell...ideology is EVERYTHING and liberals will quietly watch their city and their homes collapse around them...and pretend it's not happening and it's always been this way...rather than admit that maybe...just maybe...they were wrong.
I was so over the moon when the Second Ave Q line opened...the 72nd St. station was a work of beauty and filled with some very interesting people and performers...plus it was clean...and, after decades of walking in the inclement weather from the 6 train stops on Lex, the 72nd St. station exited right at the entrance to my favorite restaurant...life was a Beach and then, in the blink of an election and a virus...
I was transported back to the Dinkins era...the joys of tiptoeing through streams of urine at Grand Central and not even daring to connect via Times Sq express....NYC is all about walking and taking the subway...it is how one connects with the pulse of the city and like Miss Ann, I have been waiting since March 2020 for "normal" to return but,,,
The new "normal" is no more casual shopping on Madison Ave; no more opera at the Met; no more getting together with lifelong friends and classmates for drinks at the club; no more midtown Easter/Christmas season parades/festivities and no more anxiety-free dinners at our favorites...
And please forgive me but the inside of the average NYC cab is a worse health hazard than covid...
Please somebody bring back the sun...Miss Ann, you have connections up there...the Sun, a relatively safe subway ride and crazy-free dining is not much to ask.
New York needs more police officers; because, there are too many folks in this city, still using inappropriate pronouns. More police more correct pronouns, all of these inappropriate pronouns are driving these criminals crazy with criminals activities. We need a world where criminals feel safe and nothing is safer than appropriate pronouns.
UWS here! New York started getting really grubby & dicey under King DeBlasio's reign. Noticeable amounts of trash and garbage started to pile up on UWS streets. The number of homeless grew. We have 'neighborhood bums' who UWS uber-liberals know and befriend- almost as if they're family!! When you start talking to people about the weirdo who lives on the Broadway median strip @ 79th Street, they'll say, "Oh that's so and so" his family lives nearby etc, etc. This guy is insane as well as constantly high. He sometimes sings holding onto a can. He's very tall and does lunging movements as he moves about, so it can be tricky and scary getting around him from one side of Broadway to the other, especially when one needs to take care not to be pushed into traffic; Crossing the median strip can feel like a scene in Jumaji. I've been told that he's totally 'tame', but he's just one more obstacle to worry about. Another local bum is a guy who slept in the side door of the Apthorp, one of the most gorgeous residential buildings on the UWS, reeks of urine. Who cares that they just spent millions recently to wash the building down, it still stinks. One day as I was walking by this dude gets up on knees and sticks out his big fat black dick - a first for me - and pees onto the side walk, right in front of me. Fun! I'm just glad my mother or kids weren't with me to see the Gold Shower performance. Add to that the boarded up store fronts, grumpy & ugly people (UWSers are not lookers and are lousy dressers - it's either Lululemom-at-the-gym or 1970's hippie vibe for clothing). There's nothing good to look at on the UWS EXCEPT the parks - Riverside or Central. Other than that one's eyes are constantly being assaulted. That said, we've kept our UWS apt but have permanently moved to the country. We hardly go in anymore; Our accountant is telling us to sell.....
I first went to NYC in 2014. I had a pleasant time, above ground. Remember vividly entering the vaunted NYC subway system. I had ridden some systems in Europe and I must say I was, very sorry NY, disgusted. Felt like was was 4 feet from the tracks just waiting for the push from behind. It was dirty, confining, hot and I could barely breath with the 28% O2 level and it smelled terrible. Ground level to platform, now that’s climate change. I wish the good NY luck in the attempt to survive.
The Democrats are showing us How To Re-Ruin a city. The people who can't leave should resolve to never vote for a Democrat or a Liberal but only for someone running on the Conservative Line. Everyone remaining in NYC should remove their children from the Public School system and get them enrolled in a Home School Program.
does NYC do that liberal Democrat thing of not punishing Antifa/BLM (or just giving them a slap on the wrist) when they commit their crimes, but then try and get the "brutal death" penalty for conservatives (or even regular citizens) who have the audacity to try and defend themselves from those criminals?
I live in MI, and the only reason I go to Detroit is to drive my father to see Detroit Symphony Orchestra concerts (otherwise a waste of perfectly good Sunday afternoons for me). Stay for dinner afterwards? Forget it.
Hey Ann, So you think DeSantis got rid of Covid in Florida. Well I was hospitalized in Florida with a non-Covid condition, but I was infected with Covid in the hospital from all the visitors and staff following DeSantis rants and efforts to prevent people wearing masks. Thanks Governor Ron.
Ann, curiosity got the best of me and I rented “The Last Seduction”. It was like reading a cheap paperback mystery novel. The jazz was the best part. Thanks, I think.
EMAIL FROM ONE OF MY FAMOUS SUBSCRIBERS, posted here with her permission (only names and full street address removed):
<<You nailed it! And what about the rats! I can't step outside of my full floor pre-war coop on Park avenue without worrying about constant scurrying at my feet. This is no "honey I love you but give me park avenue!" And as you said, NYC, like so many great cities, is a walking city but now I'm afraid to walk (for good reason.) Sure there were always homeless people but I never feared that they might attack me. Now I do. And many have also joined my outside dining table as we like any good hostages just try to be nice, praying they'll get up. Sure NYC was dirty, but I never saw rats and garbage everywhere. And I don't recall that the scent of the city was pot smoke. I grew up in the '70s and NYC was dangerous but frankly I think the upper east side was safer than it is today. Plus we all carried a dollar to give to a would-be mugger. The understanding was as long as you gave them something they wouldn't hurt you. Today I assume they'd kill me. We used to drop our car off at our garage around the corner when we drove in late and walk to our building. Today I make my husband drop me off first. It's insane and unlivable.>>
In a rational world, the millions of New Yorkers who have been similarly terrorized, victimized, inconvenienced and put-upon as Ann has would be storming City Hall, demanding radical change, screaming for duh Mayor's head or all three. Instead we hear crickets from all except Ann, and the Governor informs New Yorkers that anyone with personal views not in line with the fashionable 'progressive' agenda that has destroyed the city are unwelcome and should leave.
This is Liberalism in a nutshell...ideology is EVERYTHING and liberals will quietly watch their city and their homes collapse around them...and pretend it's not happening and it's always been this way...rather than admit that maybe...just maybe...they were wrong.
I was so over the moon when the Second Ave Q line opened...the 72nd St. station was a work of beauty and filled with some very interesting people and performers...plus it was clean...and, after decades of walking in the inclement weather from the 6 train stops on Lex, the 72nd St. station exited right at the entrance to my favorite restaurant...life was a Beach and then, in the blink of an election and a virus...
I was transported back to the Dinkins era...the joys of tiptoeing through streams of urine at Grand Central and not even daring to connect via Times Sq express....NYC is all about walking and taking the subway...it is how one connects with the pulse of the city and like Miss Ann, I have been waiting since March 2020 for "normal" to return but,,,
The new "normal" is no more casual shopping on Madison Ave; no more opera at the Met; no more getting together with lifelong friends and classmates for drinks at the club; no more midtown Easter/Christmas season parades/festivities and no more anxiety-free dinners at our favorites...
And please forgive me but the inside of the average NYC cab is a worse health hazard than covid...
Please somebody bring back the sun...Miss Ann, you have connections up there...the Sun, a relatively safe subway ride and crazy-free dining is not much to ask.
New York needs more police officers; because, there are too many folks in this city, still using inappropriate pronouns. More police more correct pronouns, all of these inappropriate pronouns are driving these criminals crazy with criminals activities. We need a world where criminals feel safe and nothing is safer than appropriate pronouns.
(J/K)
Ann: run for mayor. It's not coming up for a while but still. How much fun!
Start spreading the news, we're leaving today
Don't want to be a part of it: New York, New York
UWS here! New York started getting really grubby & dicey under King DeBlasio's reign. Noticeable amounts of trash and garbage started to pile up on UWS streets. The number of homeless grew. We have 'neighborhood bums' who UWS uber-liberals know and befriend- almost as if they're family!! When you start talking to people about the weirdo who lives on the Broadway median strip @ 79th Street, they'll say, "Oh that's so and so" his family lives nearby etc, etc. This guy is insane as well as constantly high. He sometimes sings holding onto a can. He's very tall and does lunging movements as he moves about, so it can be tricky and scary getting around him from one side of Broadway to the other, especially when one needs to take care not to be pushed into traffic; Crossing the median strip can feel like a scene in Jumaji. I've been told that he's totally 'tame', but he's just one more obstacle to worry about. Another local bum is a guy who slept in the side door of the Apthorp, one of the most gorgeous residential buildings on the UWS, reeks of urine. Who cares that they just spent millions recently to wash the building down, it still stinks. One day as I was walking by this dude gets up on knees and sticks out his big fat black dick - a first for me - and pees onto the side walk, right in front of me. Fun! I'm just glad my mother or kids weren't with me to see the Gold Shower performance. Add to that the boarded up store fronts, grumpy & ugly people (UWSers are not lookers and are lousy dressers - it's either Lululemom-at-the-gym or 1970's hippie vibe for clothing). There's nothing good to look at on the UWS EXCEPT the parks - Riverside or Central. Other than that one's eyes are constantly being assaulted. That said, we've kept our UWS apt but have permanently moved to the country. We hardly go in anymore; Our accountant is telling us to sell.....
Ann, this is an excellent piece! but please be careful even taking a cab or an uber (or similar things). people aren't even safe in those.
I first went to NYC in 2014. I had a pleasant time, above ground. Remember vividly entering the vaunted NYC subway system. I had ridden some systems in Europe and I must say I was, very sorry NY, disgusted. Felt like was was 4 feet from the tracks just waiting for the push from behind. It was dirty, confining, hot and I could barely breath with the 28% O2 level and it smelled terrible. Ground level to platform, now that’s climate change. I wish the good NY luck in the attempt to survive.
The Democrats are showing us How To Re-Ruin a city. The people who can't leave should resolve to never vote for a Democrat or a Liberal but only for someone running on the Conservative Line. Everyone remaining in NYC should remove their children from the Public School system and get them enrolled in a Home School Program.
does NYC do that liberal Democrat thing of not punishing Antifa/BLM (or just giving them a slap on the wrist) when they commit their crimes, but then try and get the "brutal death" penalty for conservatives (or even regular citizens) who have the audacity to try and defend themselves from those criminals?
The last time I was in Manhattan was to see Bocelli at MSG. December, 2019. Even then, the city was starting to look really dirty.
I live in MI, and the only reason I go to Detroit is to drive my father to see Detroit Symphony Orchestra concerts (otherwise a waste of perfectly good Sunday afternoons for me). Stay for dinner afterwards? Forget it.
Come back to Palm Beach !
Rodney
Hey Ann, So you think DeSantis got rid of Covid in Florida. Well I was hospitalized in Florida with a non-Covid condition, but I was infected with Covid in the hospital from all the visitors and staff following DeSantis rants and efforts to prevent people wearing masks. Thanks Governor Ron.
Ann, curiosity got the best of me and I rented “The Last Seduction”. It was like reading a cheap paperback mystery novel. The jazz was the best part. Thanks, I think.