so. you one of them or related to one. Don't worry this city doesn't have the guts to get rid of useless jobs let alone unionized ones.

You can go to any neighborhood with 0 white transplants, and it still won't resemble the pre-internet/cell phone world at all

Both sides of town are being demolished and sterilized for the benefit of the replacement humans moving here.

Well said.

Mostly one "culture" tbh...the mainstream white transplant culture.

All the previous cycles were working and middle class so it was vibrant and amazing. You don't get that with the kind of upper class newcomers arriving en masse to sterilize the place.

Those badly designed new condos and hotels are attracting all the wrong people and chopping up the continuity and cohesion of the streetscapes. They look like tumors.

So many memories from Riis and one of the few places you could sunbathe nude (down at the end where it was always a beach party). Really sad if it gets gentrified.

They can always stream the game on an .xyz service 🤠

There's no net loss of millionaires, though. From the article:

>The 1,453 departures in 2021 did not create a millionaire shortage. New York State still had more than 80,000 millionaire taxpayers in 2021, up from about 70,000 in 2020.

So New York actually gained a net of 10,000 millionaires from 2020 to 2021.

this is station agent energy

They can't, it's too lucrative. Book sales, speaking fees, etc.

I’m sorry you’re getting downvoted. On a math level, this is probably a significant factor as the average housing occupancy is higher the lower the household income.

Dude they’re leaving in droves.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/nyregion/millionaires-new-york-taxes.html

Sure there’s still plenty, but the trend is negative and the net population loss is a problem too.

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I talked to a guy who got bagged doing this and he said they just gave him a trespassing

People living in these areas has never been the issue, the issue is clearly larger right and it's just easier to blame people who are trying to survive.

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All my life the left has been slicing the throat of its best talent…for reason but still….at one time Spitzer, McGreevy, Cuomo, Edwards, Grayson, Franken, OMalley, Dean, Newsom, we’re considered the future.

The fallacy of the left is expecting the other side to do something because you did it. They play the long game; that’s why they’ll have the SC for decades 😫

It makes more sense that the downtown was built. And then a less dense area to support that. And instead of replacing all that low density (and the best neighborhoods in hindsight) they just expanded above that area. Explains the age too; lower Manhattan is 400 years old while midtown started building up in the late 1800s.

Today I saw them out of the booth and it looked so strange. I remember questioning why, just because it is so noticeable, but that makes sense.

It’s so poetic that a grand city was built on top of all that schist.

As if it was always meant to be.

Sett (paving)

>A sett, also known as a block or Belgian block, is a broadly rectangular quarried stone used in paving roads and walkways. Formerly in widespread use, particularly on steeper streets because setts provided horses' hooves with better grip than a smooth surface, they are now encountered rather as decorative stone paving in landscape architecture. Setts are often referred to as "cobblestones", although a sett is distinct from a cobblestone in that it is quarried or worked to a regular shape, whereas the latter is generally a small, naturally-rounded rock. Setts are usually made of granite.

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Belgian Blocks, or setts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sett_(paving)