grafiti and squeegie guys are both on the rise under deblasio.
Weird that even bloomberg kept them in check, but Deblasio can't
edit: worse from what we learned during the shoot-up-bleach distraction- it takes 90 seconds of modest UV light to sanitize a surface. Should take 5-10 minutes to sanitize a subway car
I believe Bloomberg only ran to torpedo Bernie...no one else wanted to call Bernie out as being a rich socialist, that would have pissed off the Bernie bros, so Bloomberg took that hit and every other candidate rallied their supporters behind Biden, all the minority groups, Warren had the women, Kamala had the blacks, Buttigeg had the gays
Hillary did the same thing in 2016. She outright bought the DNC. TerdBerg at least had the respect to bend over, pay out the ass and get fucked like a good boy, He would fit in with Scientologists.
Agreed. When I saw his ads I was like wow this guy actually may have correct message to win. Which was essentially trumpish policies just more of a traditional politician demeanor. He had best shot imo of any of their field
He wouldn't have let the Dems go too far Left anyway. He is still a Republican at heart anyway. He literally got up in front of Harvard and gave a commencement address that had quite a bit of shitting on how Liberal all the Ivy Leagues and Universities have become.
Well I disagree with many of Bloomberg’s policies, I will agree he did a good job keeping New York City to be a city so I may want to work in or travel too.
I am a jersey guy who worked in the city back in the days of Bloomy and Rudy. Bloomberg outside of his stupid assed soda tax kept the place clean and tidy, everything was funded right and there was law and order.
My gripe with him was when he was on the city council, and Rudy was mayor, Bloomy blocked a 3rd term for our guy, Then when he became mayor, he got himself a 3rd term by changing the rules. Rules he did not want to change earlier because he wanted to run
He dumped a metric fuckton of money into the election too, way more than some of the presidential candidates spent.
He is a fuckface, but my opinion of him as a mayor is a 6 out of 10. He wasn't awful. but he had his flaws. Any New Yorker who remember David Dinkins can have a reference to what bad really is.
Dinkins seemed like an okay guy that was naive and in over his head to run a city as complex as NYC. He was certainly a change of pace from Koch who had charisma but his late 70's to 80's NYC was fucking rough. The city had a certain charm back then. But only in retrospect.
Remember, hop skotching bums and bumping into literal whores on 42nd street? Child pornography being distributed and viewed out in the open? Good times.
It is sad because it really is the best city in the world IMHO. I can write paragraphs about my experiences there. from the porn shops on 42nd st (long gone) and the fact no one seemed to give a fuck when an underage me walked in to look at some pussy.
To the meals from nearly every ethnicity on earth that I chowed down on. The people I met, good and bad.
One thing I always laughed about in NYC is how you can be in Little Italy, cross one street into China Town, and watch the white people disappear. It is as if I'm the only whitey who dared to go there.!
The food is awesome, you learn who to avoid, sometimes you walk into a place for lunch and they make it obvious they don't want you there.
Very true. Apart from the crazy shit -- extreme hoplophobia (though there were no changes to the relevant laws during his tenure), and crazy schemes like banning large sodas, and attempting to ban smoking even inside apartments in private coop buildings -- he displayed some impressive Trump-like executive action skills. His handling of the December 2005 transit strike was masterful.
The immediate implementation of an efficient, easy-to-understand emergency transportation plan was definitely a huge factor in bringing the strike to a lightning-fast end, with all service back up and running in less than 72 hours. I was living and working in Manhattan at the time, and have fond memories of my commutes during the short-lived strike.
Underneath his outer coating of hoplophobia and nanny-stating, there's a damn smart capitalist. I really think his extreme hoplophobia must be rooted in some early personal tragedy -- close childhood friend getting killed by another kid playing with a gun, or something like that. It's just totally irrational.
Literally everyone I know from NYC (which is quite a lot, both R and D) all couldn't STAND Bloomberg. Granted, they (both sides) hate DeBlasio even more, but bloomberg was not a good mayor
I had to learn about the various sterilization methods and all of them except heat fail on dirty surfaces. You can't sterilize what the sterilant can't reach.
I got chills reading De Blasio’s bio. Fucking communist sympathetic parents, he volunteered for the Sandarista commies down in Nicaragua, and got his start under democratic socialist NYC mayor Dinkey doo. Married a self described lesbian activist. What an absolute fucking confused fool of a man. These are the types of people we are elected to positions of power? Jesus Christ.
He said this about property in NYC: He volunteered for the Nicaraguans and was a supporter of the Sandinista National liberation front.
He worked under NYC mayor David Dinkins who is a Democrat socialist.
He said this about New York City housing “ I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there’s a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs. And I would, too. Unfortunately, what stands in the way of that is hundreds of years of history that have elevated property rights and wealth to the point that that’s the reality that calls the tune on a lot of development. Look, if I had my druthers, the city government would determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed. And there would be very stringent requirements around income levels and rents.”
He wants the government to "determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed."
Typically housing costs are too high because the government can't get out of the way of more housing being built. This man wants to increase everyone's cost of living by putting more government in the way.
I deal extensively with permitting bureaucracy. The levels of ignorance and stupidity would astound you, and the levels of self-importance and petty power moves would infuriate you.
I lived in the Toronto area for a while and I know most prominent example I refer to is a story of a 3 story walk up who had a good bit of land. Enough land to build a 20-30 storey high rise. So a developer offered to buy the walk up, gut the 1st floor into an office/lobby, and build an additional 20+ floors ontop of the existing walk up. The architects felt the historic outdoor look would make a good outward image to the building. Some cunts complained that their 1.5M dollar single family home had it's view of the CN tower blocked. So what happened? legal fights and a leftist council made the developers say fuck it and moved their money outside the city. And a few hundred people could've been housed in that.
Another issue with all the regulations is it makes housing too expensive because the only houses that can be made profitable are luxury housing. The ammenities make the building too expensive for regular working folks to afford so it just turns into a parking spot for foreign money.
The amount that uninvolved people complain is astounding. I watched an entire county shut down development because one asshole complained that the base boards in his newly bought, cheaply built, mass produced home was too far off the floor.
The worst is when unelected bureaucrats decide they don't want to permit your project. At least most places I deal with have controls to keep you out of permit purgatory.
It’s by design. They do it under the guise of equality and raising the level of the “poor” to the level of the middle class. The problem is they don’t even attempt to do it through means that have been tried and proven. They only do it through theft and wealth redistribution which never works(they know this) because it only reinforces the bad habits of most of the “poor” in this country while attempting to drag down responsible and self reliant people. The lefts end game is to keep the permanent slave class they have created while adding to it through artificial means and also making it as hard as possible to rise out of it. It’s truly devious and disgusting.
I came here to type "everything the left touches turns to shit" and this is the first post I see hahaha. The part where you're even more correct is "by design". We need to wake up and realize that people are not incompetent but truly evil and sociopathic
I can't be bothered to be upset for the people of NYC. They vote for stalinist morons like DeBlasio every fucking election.
The only way that NYC voters will begin to use their pee brains is if DeBlasio continues with his jackbooted policies such as locking them up for practicing their religion (except for moozlums .. moozlums are free in DeBlasio's NYC).
Was Guiliani the Mayor that found the tipping point and was able to use it to turn crime and violence stats around in NYC? Off to do some research. Will edit back with my findings.
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By the early 1990s, these highly visible successes, especially in the subway, had begun to express themselves politically. Better than any other politician, Rudy Giuliani understood the pent-up demand for public order and built his successful 1993 run for mayor on quality-of-life themes. Once in office, he appointed Bratton, who had orchestrated the subway success and understood the importance of order maintenance, as New York’s police commissioner.
Giuliani was the best mayor NYC ever had. NY was in the dumpster looking more and more like Escape from NY. Giuliani (obviously with the help of NYPD) cleaned up the place big time and made NYC respectable and safe. Bloomberg wasn't too bad either. De Blasio has undone everything in short order.
In the Wire the libtard writers couldn't help but try and bash No Broken Windows. They even wrote a whole sub plot about decriminalizing drugs. The only place liberal policies work is in the land of make believe.
They're generally against it now- atleast the politicians are. Maybe academics generally favor it. But academics don't make the policy/pass legislation.
I can tell you, currently in academia, broken windows is shot down as a failed-in-practice theory, generally associated with "systemic racism" and often spoken in the same breath as "stop and frisk," etc etc
It's just leftist in fighting with themselves. Notice they never mention the family or cultural institutions such as churches as solutions which are big threats to the state's control over individuals.
Giuliani was my favorite mayor. He really turned shit around. Shit was bad back then. Drugs, hookers all over time sq. Total mess. He’s on a weird and wild track now but he did a lot of good back then.
Giuliani also figured out how to fight crime. 1970s NY was almost Beirut in some places. Taxi Driver wasn’t a movie, it was a documentary.
Now the animals in NYC murder police officers as they sit in their cars. Don’t worry though. Madame DeBlasio is going to use $500,000,000 to understand why Jamiqua and Maria are dying of Chinese flu at higher rates than Helen.
A lot of commenters here seem to be thinking that the point of the 1AM-5AM shutdown is just to clean the subway cars. The cars are only part of the sanitation problem. The stations need to be cleaned too, and need to be cleared of crazy homeless people as well as normal riders, so that the cleaning can be accomplished thoroughly and safely.
There are a lot more homeless people spending most of their time in the subway cars and stations now, since panhandling above ground is not possible during the lockdown. Even in normal times, it's common to see homeless people, in filthy urine-soaked clothes, and sometimes even with open festering wounds, sitting or sleeping on the platforms.
Closing the whole system down for 4 hours every early AM gives police the legal grounds to force everybody out of the stations -- no room for "homeless advocacy" organizations to sue the city for "discriminating against" the crazy homeless. It would probably be a good idea to make a 2 hour daily shutdown a permanent thing. People who really need to get somewhere in the wee hours of the morning could reasonably plan to go before or after a 2 hour shutdown.
People who really need to get somewhere in the wee hours of the morning could reasonably plan to go before or after a 2 hour shutdown.
If it's consistent, well published, and not dicked around with...you fucking get used to it. Even travelers to the city can easily know ahead of time "the subways and buses are unavailable from 3a-5a, plan other travel arrangements."
I don't know what that headline is referring to. Only the subways normally operate 24/7. See these schedules for a couple of major Manhattan bus routes, showing they're normally out of service for several hours daily: https://new.mta.info/document/7571https://new.mta.info/document/7521
I grew up close to nyc, was there all the time during the 90s and early 2000s. Moved up north, and met my fiancee who begged me to visit nyc for years since she'd never been, so I finally took her last year. She was donating money to literally every homeless person and street performer we came across in the subways for the first hour before I had to be like "honey, I love your huge heart, but we're going to be bankrupt in an hour if you keep it up."
That said, I'm always still fairly impressed with the subway system, being more used to riding the T in Boston. Boston's T is pretty gross, and the city is confusing af to navigate even once you know it. My fiancee was so overwhelmed at first in NYC, and I was like "look... the city is a giant grid, nothing like Boston. You can't get lost, you can only go too far." It's actually pretty amazing how easy it is to navigate even for someone unfamiliar with the city, it's fairly clean considering the amount of traffic, and the air conditioning on a humid summer day is refreshing and necessary (but wasn't always there). Occasionally run into some really unsavory folks on the trains but things generally go pretty well, I'd just sandwich my fiancee into a corner seat and stand in front of her lol.
Dem voters have to live with the consequences of their decisions. It hurts to see fellow Americans suffering like this, but they must be forced to see the results of their irresponsible votes. And I speak as a voter from a state that elected Tom Wolf twice.
I agree. It's a shame people don't listen to advice (don't vote for liberals or they'll raise your taxes, for example). They just roll their eyes and vote for the liberal anyway. And then they complain when the liberal raises taxes...
We warned you. You didn't listen. Unfortunately people don't learn tough lessons until something bad happens to them.
The question we really need to be asking isn't "why is coronavirus ravaging America?" it's "why are we treating all of America as if it had the same problems NYC has?"
In NYC you have a massive population literally living in their own filth, breathing pollution, crammed into subway cars that are never cleaned with the vermin of the city (human and literal vermin) streets piled up with garbage and then going home to tiny apartments filled with relatives or roommates.
This has created one of the most vulnerable, sickly, weak populations on earth.
What does this problem have to do with Fargo ND? Tyler TX? Tempe AZ?
Nothing. Why are we bullying everywhere to pretend like we have the same problems?!
The apartment situation is INSANE in NYC. My brother's old apartment in nyc was a 2 bdroom that they put a wall up to turn into a super tiny 3 bedroom. It was 3 doctors moving in, and yet, they STILL all had to get their parents to co-sign the lease, and prove over 1 million dollars of income, in order to get approved.
He now lives in a small 1 bedroom with his s/o. They both make really good money, whereas my fiancee and I both make... very little. He came to visit us and was BLOWN AWAY at the 2 floor, 2 bedroom, ~1600 sq foot brand new apartment we have, with a yard, that costs half the cost of his nyc apartment. And the kicker? My fiancee and I think we're overpaying a ton. I keep telling him he needs to move up my way, and just buy a big ass house with either an in-law apartment or guest house on the land for me to move into lol
Yeah I don't try and understand it at this point. My brother seems to really like it for some reason. I enjoy visiting for a weekend on occasion, but am always just as happy to leave and go back home. Different strokes, I guess.
Article: Remember the Hong Kong flu?
".........In 1968–69, the Hong Kong flu ravaged the world; it wound up killing more than one million people worldwide, over 100,000 of them in the United States. No lockdowns were imposed and people still went to work, albeit lessening bus travel and implementing social distancing and more washing of their hands.
I was a little kid - and I remember my Mom telling me we didn't want to get the hong kong flu! And it was the same... some people my parents knew got it, were sick, threw up a lot, and then got better.
Yes -- I call it the "Pussification of America".
With that being said -- large swathes of the country/economy can be performed WFH or a lot more than in the 1960s or even 1990s.
I know that. I’m just hearing contradicting stories. The article here says the cleanings are stopping, but if you look at ny.gov announcements, they say the cleanings are just now starting. I’m confused.
Ex-New Yorker here: subway cars are a bacteria laboratory. The amount of people who spit in, vomit, shit, piss, ejaculate, and bleed inside of them on a DAILY BASIS is astounding. I don't even know if they could ever be cleaned properly, no less in the frequency that would be required to stop the spread of dangerous viruses.
Hence why I have a no shoe policy inside. Knowing is one thing but seeing everything you mentioned makes me sick. I have a term for the liquid that gathers at the edge of the street against the curb. It's called "The Juice" and you never want to step in the juice. When people ask me what the juice is I recite the words you used above. The whole tristate area is dirty.
Odd thing is, when you live there for a while, you just tune it all out. New Yorkers develop an uncanny ability to mind their own business and not get involved, haha.
I've heard this but then I've heard at least one New Yorker say that they are becoming a former New Yorker as soon as they can. They are moving back upstate where they came from. The grass (or lack thereof) wasn't greener.
They should have shut down the subways and trains two months ago, got some food/supply trucks to show up in neighborhoods that are lacking grocery stores, and used the 3 months of no train traffic to have the MTA go in and make needed repairs.
This whole time I was wondering why they weren't going ham on the L train and all the signal and track repairs that need to be done. It's a perfect opportunity.
Not only that, during the Bloomberg term, the MTA was actually shut down for a period of two weeks. It turned out to be one of the best time to get around Manhattan. They closed the city to regular traffic and you could only get in through taxi or van.
Democrats, by and large, do not know how to govern. They just want to have the perks of being in office, because they're not smart enough or hardworking enough to earn any of it.
This is because there's a large amount of transit workers out sick right now. Last I heard 40+ workers were ill with covid plus those not coming in because of the whole covid scare.
NYC is still the financial hub our country and vitally important to its overall health. You should have a concern when democrats wish to turn such a place into a socialist shithole. The last two mayors of NYC were a Republican and an Independent (Bloomberg seemed to straddle the fence and ran his first term as a Republican even though he was a lifelong Dem). All it took was a single Democrat to send NYC down the shitter.
Democrats turn everything they touch into a shithole...by design.
grafiti and squeegie guys are both on the rise under deblasio.
Weird that even bloomberg kept them in check, but Deblasio can't
edit: worse from what we learned during the shoot-up-bleach distraction- it takes 90 seconds of modest UV light to sanitize a surface. Should take 5-10 minutes to sanitize a subway car
Bloomberg was an excellent mayor. No joke, he really was.
Bloomberg was the most legit candidate they had to run against Trump....and they railroaded him.
I believe Bloomberg only ran to torpedo Bernie...no one else wanted to call Bernie out as being a rich socialist, that would have pissed off the Bernie bros, so Bloomberg took that hit and every other candidate rallied their supporters behind Biden, all the minority groups, Warren had the women, Kamala had the blacks, Buttigeg had the gays
Also to replenish the empty DNC coffers.
yup poured a ton of cash in
Hillary did the same thing in 2016. She outright bought the DNC. TerdBerg at least had the respect to bend over, pay out the ass and get fucked like a good boy, He would fit in with Scientologists.
Our founding fathers would be so proud of this strategy
He run a good campaign but he had zero charisma. He would have looked like a short window mannequin next to Trump at the debates.
Agreed. When I saw his ads I was like wow this guy actually may have correct message to win. Which was essentially trumpish policies just more of a traditional politician demeanor. He had best shot imo of any of their field
He wouldn't have let the Dems go too far Left anyway. He is still a Republican at heart anyway. He literally got up in front of Harvard and gave a commencement address that had quite a bit of shitting on how Liberal all the Ivy Leagues and Universities have become.
Well I disagree with many of Bloomberg’s policies, I will agree he did a good job keeping New York City to be a city so I may want to work in or travel too.
They subwayed him.
kek
I am a jersey guy who worked in the city back in the days of Bloomy and Rudy. Bloomberg outside of his stupid assed soda tax kept the place clean and tidy, everything was funded right and there was law and order.
My gripe with him was when he was on the city council, and Rudy was mayor, Bloomy blocked a 3rd term for our guy, Then when he became mayor, he got himself a 3rd term by changing the rules. Rules he did not want to change earlier because he wanted to run
He dumped a metric fuckton of money into the election too, way more than some of the presidential candidates spent.
He is a fuckface, but my opinion of him as a mayor is a 6 out of 10. He wasn't awful. but he had his flaws. Any New Yorker who remember David Dinkins can have a reference to what bad really is.
Comrade DeBlasio is really rivaling Dinkins these days. City has been turning back into the shithole it was for the past few years.
Dinkins seemed like an okay guy that was naive and in over his head to run a city as complex as NYC. He was certainly a change of pace from Koch who had charisma but his late 70's to 80's NYC was fucking rough. The city had a certain charm back then. But only in retrospect.
Remember, hop skotching bums and bumping into literal whores on 42nd street? Child pornography being distributed and viewed out in the open? Good times.
It is sad because it really is the best city in the world IMHO. I can write paragraphs about my experiences there. from the porn shops on 42nd st (long gone) and the fact no one seemed to give a fuck when an underage me walked in to look at some pussy.
To the meals from nearly every ethnicity on earth that I chowed down on. The people I met, good and bad.
One thing I always laughed about in NYC is how you can be in Little Italy, cross one street into China Town, and watch the white people disappear. It is as if I'm the only whitey who dared to go there.!
The food is awesome, you learn who to avoid, sometimes you walk into a place for lunch and they make it obvious they don't want you there.
Fucking Chinese people.
Very true. Apart from the crazy shit -- extreme hoplophobia (though there were no changes to the relevant laws during his tenure), and crazy schemes like banning large sodas, and attempting to ban smoking even inside apartments in private coop buildings -- he displayed some impressive Trump-like executive action skills. His handling of the December 2005 transit strike was masterful.
The immediate implementation of an efficient, easy-to-understand emergency transportation plan was definitely a huge factor in bringing the strike to a lightning-fast end, with all service back up and running in less than 72 hours. I was living and working in Manhattan at the time, and have fond memories of my commutes during the short-lived strike.
Underneath his outer coating of hoplophobia and nanny-stating, there's a damn smart capitalist. I really think his extreme hoplophobia must be rooted in some early personal tragedy -- close childhood friend getting killed by another kid playing with a gun, or something like that. It's just totally irrational.
Agreed. He made a big difference when he was mayor. DeBlasio is a clown.
Literally everyone I know from NYC (which is quite a lot, both R and D) all couldn't STAND Bloomberg. Granted, they (both sides) hate DeBlasio even more, but bloomberg was not a good mayor
Tbf, it used to be MUCH worse. And they weren't trying to sell you anything.
UV light doesn't do much for puddles of urine. And that's being nice about it. The subways are rolling flophouses at this point.
I had to learn about the various sterilization methods and all of them except heat fail on dirty surfaces. You can't sterilize what the sterilant can't reach.
there are teams of people who wipe down the cars with cleaning products; where did they say that only a UV lamp is being used?
Wilhelm isn't even trying to keep them in check.
I got chills reading De Blasio’s bio. Fucking communist sympathetic parents, he volunteered for the Sandarista commies down in Nicaragua, and got his start under democratic socialist NYC mayor Dinkey doo. Married a self described lesbian activist. What an absolute fucking confused fool of a man. These are the types of people we are elected to positions of power? Jesus Christ.
He said this about property in NYC: He volunteered for the Nicaraguans and was a supporter of the Sandinista National liberation front.
He worked under NYC mayor David Dinkins who is a Democrat socialist.
He said this about New York City housing “ I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there’s a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs. And I would, too. Unfortunately, what stands in the way of that is hundreds of years of history that have elevated property rights and wealth to the point that that’s the reality that calls the tune on a lot of development. Look, if I had my druthers, the city government would determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed. And there would be very stringent requirements around income levels and rents.”
He wants the government to "determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed."
Typically housing costs are too high because the government can't get out of the way of more housing being built. This man wants to increase everyone's cost of living by putting more government in the way.
I deal extensively with permitting bureaucracy. The levels of ignorance and stupidity would astound you, and the levels of self-importance and petty power moves would infuriate you.
Dude do I hear you! PREACH!
I lived in the Toronto area for a while and I know most prominent example I refer to is a story of a 3 story walk up who had a good bit of land. Enough land to build a 20-30 storey high rise. So a developer offered to buy the walk up, gut the 1st floor into an office/lobby, and build an additional 20+ floors ontop of the existing walk up. The architects felt the historic outdoor look would make a good outward image to the building. Some cunts complained that their 1.5M dollar single family home had it's view of the CN tower blocked. So what happened? legal fights and a leftist council made the developers say fuck it and moved their money outside the city. And a few hundred people could've been housed in that.
Another issue with all the regulations is it makes housing too expensive because the only houses that can be made profitable are luxury housing. The ammenities make the building too expensive for regular working folks to afford so it just turns into a parking spot for foreign money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4
Here's another great example.
The amount that uninvolved people complain is astounding. I watched an entire county shut down development because one asshole complained that the base boards in his newly bought, cheaply built, mass produced home was too far off the floor.
The worst is when unelected bureaucrats decide they don't want to permit your project. At least most places I deal with have controls to keep you out of permit purgatory.
Comrade Bill deBlasio is a total disgrace to the city.
fuck everything up then brainwash you into believing that they're the only ones who can fix it and if you get rid of them it'll be way worse
It’s by design. They do it under the guise of equality and raising the level of the “poor” to the level of the middle class. The problem is they don’t even attempt to do it through means that have been tried and proven. They only do it through theft and wealth redistribution which never works(they know this) because it only reinforces the bad habits of most of the “poor” in this country while attempting to drag down responsible and self reliant people. The lefts end game is to keep the permanent slave class they have created while adding to it through artificial means and also making it as hard as possible to rise out of it. It’s truly devious and disgusting.
I came here to type "everything the left touches turns to shit" and this is the first post I see hahaha. The part where you're even more correct is "by design". We need to wake up and realize that people are not incompetent but truly evil and sociopathic
Fuhrer Bill is too busy arresting Jews.
That tweet he made was jaw-dropping.
I can't be bothered to be upset for the people of NYC. They vote for stalinist morons like DeBlasio every fucking election.
The only way that NYC voters will begin to use their pee brains is if DeBlasio continues with his jackbooted policies such as locking them up for practicing their religion (except for moozlums .. moozlums are free in DeBlasio's NYC).
Moose limbs get a halal feast for free courtesy of taxpayers via Mayor McCheese.
Was Guiliani the Mayor that found the tipping point and was able to use it to turn crime and violence stats around in NYC? Off to do some research. Will edit back with my findings.
Edit:
https://www.city-journal.org/html/how-new-york-became-safe-full-story-13197.html
Giuliani was the best mayor NYC ever had. NY was in the dumpster looking more and more like Escape from NY. Giuliani (obviously with the help of NYPD) cleaned up the place big time and made NYC respectable and safe. Bloomberg wasn't too bad either. De Blasio has undone everything in short order.
And he was loved by media and entertainment at the time. So was Trump actually.
In the Wire the libtard writers couldn't help but try and bash No Broken Windows. They even wrote a whole sub plot about decriminalizing drugs. The only place liberal policies work is in the land of make believe.
They work great for the elite. Keep the peasants fighting each other so they won’t fight you.
They're generally against it now- atleast the politicians are. Maybe academics generally favor it. But academics don't make the policy/pass legislation.
I can tell you, currently in academia, broken windows is shot down as a failed-in-practice theory, generally associated with "systemic racism" and often spoken in the same breath as "stop and frisk," etc etc
It's just leftist in fighting with themselves. Notice they never mention the family or cultural institutions such as churches as solutions which are big threats to the state's control over individuals.
When was the last time you saw the staff of a Walgreens shooting up a CVS for cutting in on their business?
Giuliani was my favorite mayor. He really turned shit around. Shit was bad back then. Drugs, hookers all over time sq. Total mess. He’s on a weird and wild track now but he did a lot of good back then.
Giuliani also figured out how to fight crime. 1970s NY was almost Beirut in some places. Taxi Driver wasn’t a movie, it was a documentary.
Now the animals in NYC murder police officers as they sit in their cars. Don’t worry though. Madame DeBlasio is going to use $500,000,000 to understand why Jamiqua and Maria are dying of Chinese flu at higher rates than Helen.
A lot of commenters here seem to be thinking that the point of the 1AM-5AM shutdown is just to clean the subway cars. The cars are only part of the sanitation problem. The stations need to be cleaned too, and need to be cleared of crazy homeless people as well as normal riders, so that the cleaning can be accomplished thoroughly and safely.
There are a lot more homeless people spending most of their time in the subway cars and stations now, since panhandling above ground is not possible during the lockdown. Even in normal times, it's common to see homeless people, in filthy urine-soaked clothes, and sometimes even with open festering wounds, sitting or sleeping on the platforms.
Closing the whole system down for 4 hours every early AM gives police the legal grounds to force everybody out of the stations -- no room for "homeless advocacy" organizations to sue the city for "discriminating against" the crazy homeless. It would probably be a good idea to make a 2 hour daily shutdown a permanent thing. People who really need to get somewhere in the wee hours of the morning could reasonably plan to go before or after a 2 hour shutdown.
If it's consistent, well published, and not dicked around with...you fucking get used to it. Even travelers to the city can easily know ahead of time "the subways and buses are unavailable from 3a-5a, plan other travel arrangements."
Yeah, but then they'd have to change NYC to "The City That Always Naps From 3am-5am."
How does that relate to the busses mentioned? There's not a bus station for every stop.
I don't know what that headline is referring to. Only the subways normally operate 24/7. See these schedules for a couple of major Manhattan bus routes, showing they're normally out of service for several hours daily: https://new.mta.info/document/7571 https://new.mta.info/document/7521
I guess they're adding "disinfecting" to the normal cleaning routines for both subways and busses, but the announcement about the overnight shutdown was only about subway service: https://nypost.com/2020/04/30/nyc-subways-will-close-overnight-for-coronavirus-cleanings/
I grew up close to nyc, was there all the time during the 90s and early 2000s. Moved up north, and met my fiancee who begged me to visit nyc for years since she'd never been, so I finally took her last year. She was donating money to literally every homeless person and street performer we came across in the subways for the first hour before I had to be like "honey, I love your huge heart, but we're going to be bankrupt in an hour if you keep it up."
That said, I'm always still fairly impressed with the subway system, being more used to riding the T in Boston. Boston's T is pretty gross, and the city is confusing af to navigate even once you know it. My fiancee was so overwhelmed at first in NYC, and I was like "look... the city is a giant grid, nothing like Boston. You can't get lost, you can only go too far." It's actually pretty amazing how easy it is to navigate even for someone unfamiliar with the city, it's fairly clean considering the amount of traffic, and the air conditioning on a humid summer day is refreshing and necessary (but wasn't always there). Occasionally run into some really unsavory folks on the trains but things generally go pretty well, I'd just sandwich my fiancee into a corner seat and stand in front of her lol.
Dem voters have to live with the consequences of their decisions. It hurts to see fellow Americans suffering like this, but they must be forced to see the results of their irresponsible votes. And I speak as a voter from a state that elected Tom Wolf twice.
I agree. It's a shame people don't listen to advice (don't vote for liberals or they'll raise your taxes, for example). They just roll their eyes and vote for the liberal anyway. And then they complain when the liberal raises taxes...
We warned you. You didn't listen. Unfortunately people don't learn tough lessons until something bad happens to them.
The question we really need to be asking isn't "why is coronavirus ravaging America?" it's "why are we treating all of America as if it had the same problems NYC has?"
In NYC you have a massive population literally living in their own filth, breathing pollution, crammed into subway cars that are never cleaned with the vermin of the city (human and literal vermin) streets piled up with garbage and then going home to tiny apartments filled with relatives or roommates.
This has created one of the most vulnerable, sickly, weak populations on earth.
What does this problem have to do with Fargo ND? Tyler TX? Tempe AZ?
Nothing. Why are we bullying everywhere to pretend like we have the same problems?!
The apartment situation is INSANE in NYC. My brother's old apartment in nyc was a 2 bdroom that they put a wall up to turn into a super tiny 3 bedroom. It was 3 doctors moving in, and yet, they STILL all had to get their parents to co-sign the lease, and prove over 1 million dollars of income, in order to get approved.
He now lives in a small 1 bedroom with his s/o. They both make really good money, whereas my fiancee and I both make... very little. He came to visit us and was BLOWN AWAY at the 2 floor, 2 bedroom, ~1600 sq foot brand new apartment we have, with a yard, that costs half the cost of his nyc apartment. And the kicker? My fiancee and I think we're overpaying a ton. I keep telling him he needs to move up my way, and just buy a big ass house with either an in-law apartment or guest house on the land for me to move into lol
The level of self delusion it requires to think living in NYC is a good idea is incredible. The days of "it's for work" are long over.
Yeah I don't try and understand it at this point. My brother seems to really like it for some reason. I enjoy visiting for a weekend on occasion, but am always just as happy to leave and go back home. Different strokes, I guess.
Disinfect them with some of the ultra violet light.
The city that never sleeps but takes overnight naps.
DID WE TURN INTO SNOWFLAKES IN 52 YEARS?
Article: Remember the Hong Kong flu? ".........In 1968–69, the Hong Kong flu ravaged the world; it wound up killing more than one million people worldwide, over 100,000 of them in the United States. No lockdowns were imposed and people still went to work, albeit lessening bus travel and implementing social distancing and more washing of their hands.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/remember_the_hong_kong_flu.html
BuT tHiS oNe SpReAdS fAsTeR!!!
I was a little kid - and I remember my Mom telling me we didn't want to get the hong kong flu! And it was the same... some people my parents knew got it, were sick, threw up a lot, and then got better.
Yes -- I call it the "Pussification of America".
With that being said -- large swathes of the country/economy can be performed WFH or a lot more than in the 1960s or even 1990s.
I bet if something Jewish was on those trains he would be down to have them super clean
Spray "Hava Nagila" on a subway train and he'll clean it himself.
kek.. Or maybe roni Roni bat Zion..
Last I heard was he was ordering the NYPD to round up the Jews in the city.
They didn’t end it. They are cleaning every car every night now. Look on ny.gov and click read more.
every car isn't running all the time. Every evening they can swap in clean backup cars and keep the subway moving while they sanitize the day's cars.
This isn't about cleaning cars, this is about restricting movement.
I know that. I’m just hearing contradicting stories. The article here says the cleanings are stopping, but if you look at ny.gov announcements, they say the cleanings are just now starting. I’m confused.
B/c dems don’t know how to run anything. They only know how to wield power.
Ex-New Yorker here: subway cars are a bacteria laboratory. The amount of people who spit in, vomit, shit, piss, ejaculate, and bleed inside of them on a DAILY BASIS is astounding. I don't even know if they could ever be cleaned properly, no less in the frequency that would be required to stop the spread of dangerous viruses.
Hence why I have a no shoe policy inside. Knowing is one thing but seeing everything you mentioned makes me sick. I have a term for the liquid that gathers at the edge of the street against the curb. It's called "The Juice" and you never want to step in the juice. When people ask me what the juice is I recite the words you used above. The whole tristate area is dirty.
Ewww, haha!!
If this is the future, count me out! I'd much rather be some lame ass loser living in the suburbs driving his car to work like some uncool person.
Odd thing is, when you live there for a while, you just tune it all out. New Yorkers develop an uncanny ability to mind their own business and not get involved, haha.
I've heard this but then I've heard at least one New Yorker say that they are becoming a former New Yorker as soon as they can. They are moving back upstate where they came from. The grass (or lack thereof) wasn't greener.
Canal Street station always smells of piss. Even more so than every other station.
Wonder if it's the homeless or all the Chinese slave laborers not being able to hold it in on their way home to Brooklyn?
Deblasio....🤡🤡 HONK! HONK!
They should have shut down the subways and trains two months ago, got some food/supply trucks to show up in neighborhoods that are lacking grocery stores, and used the 3 months of no train traffic to have the MTA go in and make needed repairs.
This whole time I was wondering why they weren't going ham on the L train and all the signal and track repairs that need to be done. It's a perfect opportunity.
Not only that, during the Bloomberg term, the MTA was actually shut down for a period of two weeks. It turned out to be one of the best time to get around Manhattan. They closed the city to regular traffic and you could only get in through taxi or van.
Can we send this to that phone line of his, or did they take that down because of the naughty pictures?
why do they need allthese cars? no one can go anywhere.
The worse they do their jobs, the more power they gain <-- the Democrat Party hustle.
Maybe he can employs his wife at 500k a year to lead a taskforce?
You don't need to be going anywhere right now, citizen. Pick up that can.
Vandalism/spray paint is a little different than an infectious disease. I think youre stretching it with this one.
De Blithio doesn't want to rotate them, more newsworthy this way.
DiBlasio (Warren Wilhelm) couldn't clean his own house much less a large city.
It’s probably easier knowing exactly which cars to clean instead of fighting an invisible enemy. Just being fair to ding dong deblaiso.
So if it’s already been figured out, then what is there to figure out?
Rudy was such a good Mayor.
Democrats, by and large, do not know how to govern. They just want to have the perks of being in office, because they're not smart enough or hardworking enough to earn any of it.
This is apples and oranges
This does not describe at all how the initial 6200 were cleaned. Rotation? shutdown?
Also once you have cleaned them any that get vandalized since then would be easy to rotate out because it’s maybe a few dozen a day.
This cleaning would be all cars every day.
Look, there’s a lot of shit I don’t like about this quarantine, but this is HuffPo tier comparing
Cuomo is responsible for the subways, not that it makes a difference
Democrat politicians are failures.
Well it makes sense. Reduce the hours the service runs so people have to cram in together earlier because they know it will be closed later.
This is because there's a large amount of transit workers out sick right now. Last I heard 40+ workers were ill with covid plus those not coming in because of the whole covid scare.
Note quite ‘broken-widow’ theory but same point. Stupid people, for some reason, don’t mind fucking shit up more that’s already partially fucked up.
You shouldn't give a shit about new yorkers and the subway.
You should pay attention to the pattern of democrat leaders having trouble with problems that have known successful solutions.
NYC is still the financial hub our country and vitally important to its overall health. You should have a concern when democrats wish to turn such a place into a socialist shithole. The last two mayors of NYC were a Republican and an Independent (Bloomberg seemed to straddle the fence and ran his first term as a Republican even though he was a lifelong Dem). All it took was a single Democrat to send NYC down the shitter.
Then they get everything they deserve. If they don't want to be in the shitter - they need to change their voting habits.
The governor just announced that every train car will be cleaned every night. So who do I believe? Are they starting or stopping?
The NY major is as stupid as his actions hint.