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I think the main reasons that New York seems so dirty is 1) Lots of Americans live here and 2) People walk around a lot.
It seems like every American city I have walked in is dirty and littered.
Must do not seem as bad because there are not as many people around to junk the place up, and the litter/grime is often not noticed because you are driving by it in a car.
New Orleans is sort of a commodity city in that it warehouses stuff — coffee, cotton, cocoa, other stuff coming in from overseas to go up the Mississippi river. Then it holds grains and other stuff meant for export. I remember monitoring the coffee stocks there (some were destroyed) post Katrina.
Brennan’s!
The Brooklyn Paper: Dishonest and against the open exchange of ideas.
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/3/br_grimmsecurity_2011_1_21_bk.html?comm=1#feedback
To add to that donatella, the MTA bought up a system that was in such bad shape I think it might have been cheaper to scrap the whole thing and start over.
I could live with the subway system completely haulting some subway lines after a certain time for cleaning and upgrading purposes.
Has anyone ever been told what that smell is on the downtown six underpass at 51st and Lex? It makes me light headed everytime I walk through there.
Two favorite signs I saw in NO bars:
Drink Here, Dance Across The Street, Fight At Home
Happy Hour: 5-7, Twice A Day
It’s probably because I grew up 90 minutes from the French Quarter, but New Orleans never did much for me.
It’s a nice place to visit once every year or two, but I could never imagine living there.
Even pre-Katrina, I found the city to to be dirty, run-down, and depressing in a way I have not felt in any other city.
Economically, the city reached its peak right after WWII, and has been on the decline every since. Tourism is really the only thing keeping it going now.
Oil industry back-office jobs have moved to Houston, the chemical factories have moved upriver to or to Houston, general cargo shipping has moved to Houston, and ship building has moved overseas or to Mississippi.
By ishtar on January 18, 2011 11:43 AM
donatella, I could stomach the madness in that station if it weren’t for the horrid subway musicians. Please let me at least navigate all this grime in peace.
HA! I have to agree with you there. I wait there for the C but will take anything into Brooklyn to A to get away from that “music”. The African whining music definately tops the plastic compound bucket percussionists though.
Two years ago a ‘friend’ went to N’awlins for the first time and I suggested he eat Bananas Foster. He didn’t. The Fool!
I’m craving it right NOW.
My husband still talks about grits he had in a hole in the wall diner down there.
I think I need to get my butt down south. It’s been a few years.