New York City will turn into shell of
former self after coronavirus crisis
Hill [Washington DC],
by
Kristin Tate
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
5/24/2020 7:36:17 PM
Imagine New York City five years from now with streets full of abandoned storefronts, closed eateries, and empty buildings. The cumulative effects of the coronavirus may be more overwhelming than the other challenges New York City has had to face during the past two generations, including the aftermath of 9/ 11. It is likely that the pandemic will simply accelerate the trend in the sharp decline of its population and livelihoods. New York City was already losing population before the outbreak due to economic factors and quality of life issues. Around 40,000 residents left between 2017 and 2018 alone. The
Reply 1 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/24/2020 7:43:07 PM (No. 420977)
It couldn’t happen to a better imperialistic dictatorship.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 5/24/2020 7:47:33 PM (No. 420979)
"Economic factors" = Massive taxes and uncontrolled government spending,
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 5/24/2020 7:49:10 PM (No. 420981)
Same goes for the State of New York: "New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has caused a firestorm in the Empire State for declaring to a talk radio host that conservatives who are pro-life, pro-gun and anti-gay marriage “have no place in the State of New York.” https://www.aei.org/politics-and-public-opinion/cuomo-says-conservatives-have-no-place-in-new-york/
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chance_232 5/24/2020 7:54:49 PM (No. 420985)
Back in November/December of 99, I had to work in NYC for about 4 weeks. As a country boy at heart, being surrounded by concrete and hostile crowds drove me nuts. I can see the attraction to living in NYC. Anything you could want is in walking distance or a short subway ride away. Restaurants, shopping, museums and entertainment galore. But it all comes at a high price, literally and figuratively. Nothing is cheap there. Great, you can go to the theater if you can afford to drop a few Benjamins. Which means that your average worker, really isnt participating in the "night life" and culture. The people are on average rude and wont make eye contact. Your living in high-rise efficiencies whose monthly rent will buy you a 2000 sqft home, with yard in Georgia. One can earn a 6 figure income in NYC and live like a pauper.
The traffic is atrocious. Parking non-existent. And because one cant afford a vehicle, you have to grocery shop near daily. You dont want to buy more than you can carry.
NYC is both spectacular and horrifying.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ramona 5/24/2020 8:05:45 PM (No. 420996)
Poster #4 makes a terrific point. I love visiting NYC for a few days - the entertainment, the food, the wonderful variety of people and things - all make for a stimulating adventure. On my last visit I saw Fiddler on the Roof performed in Yiddish at the Jewish National Theater. What a treasure! And there is a wealth of American history there.
But to live in NYC, now that's another story. I have a sibling there and he will never leave. He thrives on the activity. Unfortunately there has been a long-standing pandemic of collectivist thought amongst the "leaders" and those who elect them.
Ramona (the Pest)
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jar 5/24/2020 8:08:24 PM (No. 420998)
Given the entrepreneurship of Americans, no doubt other potential business owners will flock to the empty storefronts and start new businesses.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Miceal 5/24/2020 8:10:30 PM (No. 420999)
Sadly, and I truly am sad about this...but I just don't care. They got exactly what they voted for and hopefully they, collectively, learned a lesson. However, I won't hold my breath waiting for them to react in a positive manner...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 5/24/2020 8:20:15 PM (No. 421003)
Sounds like y personal problem
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 5/24/2020 8:27:23 PM (No. 421007)
It would be just desserts for the city of globalists and hedge fund managers who oversaw NAFTA have their "world" city look like those small Midwest almost-ghost towns that Mike and Frank drive through on American Pickers.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 5/24/2020 8:37:48 PM (No. 421017)
I wouldn’t miss it
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 5/24/2020 9:17:02 PM (No. 421046)
Gee! Whadda shame.
Just stay the hell away from MY red Congressional district! Stay the hell away form my red state!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/24/2020 9:30:15 PM (No. 421049)
And as is the traditional role of the NYC media they missed the FACT that NY is already a shell. California biggest population. TEXAS 2nd biggest but we are gaining. New York ??? 4th. and falling fast. New York is rapidly becoming nothing more than a Target for Muslim bombs.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 5/24/2020 9:46:29 PM (No. 421057)
Sadly, when those people relocate to cheaper states, they bring their liberal politics with them and foul their new nest. Just look at Colorado - a formerly conservative western state now with a gay governor, and all major state offices controlled by Democrats. All it took was 20 years of Californians moving into the state.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
padiva 5/24/2020 9:57:53 PM (No. 421060)
My liberal niece lives in NYC. She teaches in the Bronx. She has to share an apartment to afford living there. Shopping, laundry etc is so inconvenient. Her other aunt and I think she is crazy.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 5/24/2020 10:16:36 PM (No. 421066)
I lived in Brooklyn from birth till I was 35. I saw NYC in its grimy glory during the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. I remember strong and stable neighborhoods, I remember grafitti artists decorating the trains like Jackson Pollack. I remember being able to walk under the boardwalk at Coney Island-until the 80's, when Russian women jogging on the boardwalk were attacked and dragged under the walkway to be raped by blacks. Then the city brought in bulldozers to push the sand in until the space was wholly filled up so as to deny the space for crime. I even remember the huge smokestack with STEEPLECHASE stencilled on it, until it was demolished. I remember the parachute jump actually working, instead of just the structure used as a historical artifact. And I remember how generous NYers were, donating to thousands of charities. But the cancer of liberalism was even then working, rotting it from the inside out. So many years of Democrat Mayors and Govenors (David Dinkens, the worst Mayor until Bill DeBlasio took the crown) destroyed NYC and NY State. Look at how NY rebounded when Giuliani was Mayor and Pataki was Govenor after years of rot-the city went from record crime to being one of the safest big cities in the world-and look how quickly it withered under DeBlasio and Cuomo. NYC can be great again, but we'll have to see if it wants to be great again. Meaning, a conservative Republican in Gracie Mansion and the Governor's seat.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 5/24/2020 10:30:03 PM (No. 421074)
what #16 said...I lived/live in Ohio but had the opportunity over the years..60's,70's,80's.90's
to fly in even just for the day.(could fly for free)..I usually stayed a few days..would go in to get my hair cut, see a particular derm etc. I usually did not stay more than a week..I had to get out by then...my friends used to think I was nuts going during the times when it was the worst..then Rudy came to the rescue. I was young and had no fear..now when I look back on it..I was probably nuts..walking around Hell's Kitchen by myself..what WAS I thinking!!! I still miss Bergdorf's!!!!!!!!!!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 5/24/2020 10:37:08 PM (No. 421078)
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
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 5/24/2020 11:16:02 PM (No. 421091)
Elect an incompetent, stupid Marxist and this is what you get. The destroy everything they touch.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
XCenturion 5/25/2020 12:09:40 AM (No. 421110)
The bad news is In New York State the COVID-19 death count stands at 29,046. The good news is they will still be voting in the next election.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 5/25/2020 12:17:04 AM (No. 421114)
Insane things likje $15/hr minimum wrecks small businesses, too.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
texaspast 5/25/2020 12:21:46 AM (No. 421119)
#4 & 5 (and others), I have relatives living in New York City (or one of the boroughs) still. Have visited a few times. NYC to me is like a zoo - fun place to visit, but you sure as heck wouldn't want have to live there!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 5/25/2020 12:35:36 AM (No. 421123)
Hey, cry me a river. Like I tell people all day long here in MA. Vote dem? NO BAWLING! You got what ya voted for. You jerks LOVE being told what to do.
Now you are suicidal? NO sympathy here.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 5/25/2020 12:39:41 AM (No. 421127)
Sorry! So many pop ups on lucianne.com I posted on the wrong article! My apologies!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/25/2020 3:41:14 AM (No. 421156)
NYC was a hell hole in the 1940s when my parents took us kids there to visit a relative. It looked by Beirut after a bombing. We were warned not to leave sight of the front door. Here it is 2020 and nothing has changed. It's still a hell hole. There is no amount of money in this world that would con me into stepping one foot back in there.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Mushroom 5/25/2020 5:23:58 AM (No. 421173)
My first response is, Isn't NYC a shell of a city anyway? What does it actually produce but hype and intangibles?
For those living there I'd appreciate not being billed for your lifestyle. Out here we pull our own weight. We'd appreciate it if you did the same.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
AltaD 5/25/2020 9:57:08 AM (No. 421419)
FTA: The pressure of the pandemic, high tax rates, soaring living costs, lack of security,
She's speaking about NYC in this sentence but this is Chicago's situation too. If working remotely becomes a permanent option for your job, then why stay in the city? Working from home, in the suburbs or another state, is preferable to living in Chicago.
The cost of living, out of control crime and the city, county and state governments have made Chicago unlivable.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 5/25/2020 6:16:40 PM (No. 421845)
Have some pity on the trapped right-wingers whom fortune, misfortune, family history (this was a beautiful city until the late sixties) have now trapped in depreciating homes. A lot of the firefighters who charged into the buildings on 9/11 lived in the five boroughs, esp. Staten Island and Queens. Their families still do. Right wingers in NYC can't do much against the tide. Their misfortune is living in a dictatorship.
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