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Why the hell are you yelling, ENY?
First off, I live in CH South, which anyone can tell you is night and day from CH North. The only time I ever have to deal with any of that stuff is if I have to travel to CH North.
You just singled out and responded to one part of my post, ishtar. Why not respond to the whole?
I’m asking you a serious question. Do you ever think about where else you might LIKE to live? Someplace you might ENJOY coming home to, walking around, not feeling like you have to “kill yourself” to avoid quality of life issues that pain you.
Ishtar, you NEVER ANSWERED THE QUESTION: WHY DON’T YOU MOVE?
You described EVERYTHING you don’t like about CH. When posters ask why you’d live in a place you find “disgusting,” you question their inclination to parse your opinions.
I think the question is legitimate. Why don’t you try answering it?
You mention filthy streets, bad attitudes, dog shit, blah, blah, blah but you won’t say why on earth you would live in an environment you clearly see as profoundly negative.
Going to one of those non-profit, community improvement meetings now. Be back later.
Rob, what is wrong with giving kids free metrocards to get to and from school? Rural areas have free bus transportation, we have public transportation. How is a kid from a poor family supposed to get to school?
You know, etson, I loved that apartment I lived in and I love the neighborhood. It was considered “Germantown” when I moved in, in the ’70s. All of 86th street was lined with German restaurants, shops, bakeries. Where I lived was worker housing for the Ruppert breweries, long gone,where the Ruppert Towers are now, 89-90th and Third.
If anything it was a sleepy blue collar enclave of Manhattan, isolated from transportation and with its own interesting vibe. What I described was a strange aberration. In the early ’80s, there was something called “Operation Pressure Point” under Koch, meant to eliminate the drug dealing on the Lower East side. They “pressured” the dealers who ran “front” businesses and did they go away? No! They moved! To all over the city and in my case to the store in my building. So everything changed with that store for me. The business attracted drug users from all over the Metropolitan area.
The problems I experienced were directly related to that store. I never had a problem EVER before. It was wonderful.
denton, they can still sell drugs. Maybe with it being legal than can use that money to pay some landlord rent instead of lowering the property values by standing on corners, in front of bodegas, and being a blight.
“I’m not sure whether I would have lived in the city at all if I moved to NYC in 1984 instead of 1999.
Etson, these posts are always so amusing… life was good in NYC in 1984 too. The museums were here, there were concerts, plays, and restaurants. The crime rate was higher, sure, but me, my wife, and my kid all managed to avoid being robbed. Fancy that?
Why the hell are you yelling, ENY?
First off, I live in CH South, which anyone can tell you is night and day from CH North. The only time I ever have to deal with any of that stuff is if I have to travel to CH North.
You just singled out and responded to one part of my post, ishtar. Why not respond to the whole?
I’m asking you a serious question. Do you ever think about where else you might LIKE to live? Someplace you might ENJOY coming home to, walking around, not feeling like you have to “kill yourself” to avoid quality of life issues that pain you.
Ishtar, you NEVER ANSWERED THE QUESTION: WHY DON’T YOU MOVE?
You described EVERYTHING you don’t like about CH. When posters ask why you’d live in a place you find “disgusting,” you question their inclination to parse your opinions.
I think the question is legitimate. Why don’t you try answering it?
You mention filthy streets, bad attitudes, dog shit, blah, blah, blah but you won’t say why on earth you would live in an environment you clearly see as profoundly negative.
WHY NOT MOVE?
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But worshipping a couple of coked out twats because they stand around and play their ipod? please
lol. so true
*rob*
Going to one of those non-profit, community improvement meetings now. Be back later.
Rob, what is wrong with giving kids free metrocards to get to and from school? Rural areas have free bus transportation, we have public transportation. How is a kid from a poor family supposed to get to school?
You know, etson, I loved that apartment I lived in and I love the neighborhood. It was considered “Germantown” when I moved in, in the ’70s. All of 86th street was lined with German restaurants, shops, bakeries. Where I lived was worker housing for the Ruppert breweries, long gone,where the Ruppert Towers are now, 89-90th and Third.
If anything it was a sleepy blue collar enclave of Manhattan, isolated from transportation and with its own interesting vibe. What I described was a strange aberration. In the early ’80s, there was something called “Operation Pressure Point” under Koch, meant to eliminate the drug dealing on the Lower East side. They “pressured” the dealers who ran “front” businesses and did they go away? No! They moved! To all over the city and in my case to the store in my building. So everything changed with that store for me. The business attracted drug users from all over the Metropolitan area.
The problems I experienced were directly related to that store. I never had a problem EVER before. It was wonderful.
denton, they can still sell drugs. Maybe with it being legal than can use that money to pay some landlord rent instead of lowering the property values by standing on corners, in front of bodegas, and being a blight.
Wow, MM, insert “the terrorists” and it sounds like you’re talking about downtown Kandahar. Quite a battle. Ever think of just giving up?
“I’m not sure whether I would have lived in the city at all if I moved to NYC in 1984 instead of 1999.
Etson, these posts are always so amusing… life was good in NYC in 1984 too. The museums were here, there were concerts, plays, and restaurants. The crime rate was higher, sure, but me, my wife, and my kid all managed to avoid being robbed. Fancy that?