Poll: Many Residents Don't Heart NYC
Although crime is way down and more tourists than ever are flocking here, a poll from Crain’s (subscription req’d) shows that about a third of New Yorkers think conditions in the city are deteriorating. The results of the poll, which are highlighted in a Daily News article, underscore a growing divide between the way the…
Although crime is way down and more tourists than ever are flocking here, a poll from Crain’s (subscription req’d) shows that about a third of New Yorkers think conditions in the city are deteriorating. The results of the poll, which are highlighted in a Daily News article, underscore a growing divide between the way the city is viewed by minorities and whites and the rich and poor. While 61 percent of white respondents said public transportation is good or excellent, only 41 percent of blacks rated it similarly; 20 percent of black respondents, meanwhile, called public schools poor, compared to 6 percent of white respondents who said they were in bad shape. The growing cost of housing is also weighing heavily on New Yorkers: Five years ago, 8 percent of poll respondents said it was difficult to cover their rent or mortgage, but now 18 percent say it’s hard to cover the cost of keeping a roof over their head. The poll results show that the city is losing its middle class, according to former Housing Commissioner Jerilyn Perine. “We used to have a bell curve, with most people in the middle,” she says. “Now you’re seeing a flattening of that curve and a growing high end and a growing poverty rate.”
One-Third Say New York Getting Worse [NY Daily News]
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Wow, didn’t expect to get skewered by my $250K HHI post. For the record, I think that’s a lot of money. I think it’s insane that you can’t buy a real two bedroom in Park Slope for that kind of money. And before you tell me that I’m being entitled, I’ll tell you that we both work, have two young kids and are more than happy to have them share a room (again, assuming it’s a real room and not a f*cking walk-in closet.) But being as we can’t afford private school (and frankly couldn’t put up with the racket of private schools even if we could afford it), we need a good school district. And, okay, call me entitled, but I don’t want to have a mortgage of $4K a month (once you add maintenance) and have over an hour commute, live in a neighborhood where maybe I have to be nervous if I get out of the subway after dark and have none of the basic amenities at my fingertips that to me make living in the city worthwhile. I can’t help it, I think the market is insane that someone who wants what I want seriously can’t get it. We don’t have a car, we don’t have laundry in the apt, and my kids happily share a room. Yeah, I’m so f*cking entitled. Give me a break.
Is there any way to ban the use of the word “fucktard?”
Is it even a real word?
Oh for goodness sake, The What, stop reading alarmist garbage like Jim Kunstler. It obviously excites your already delicate mental state. Seriously, try to get help. You need counseling and probably medication, initiallyl.
Keep doing your thing What.
These people make it seem like they have the perfect lives in there overpriced condos. A lot of them are really miserable and oblivious to what’s really going on out there.
Don’t worry What–you still have lots of fans on this site.
“I agree with 6:57 and co. on this family that makes 250K. As other commentators have noted in this space in the past, everybody seems to think they deserve a 4-story brownstone in Brooklyn Heights for their first house. Nice, if you can manage it, but you can’t. So: Do what we (and everybody else with real-estate savvy) does: Buy a little apartment. Improve it. Sell it for a profit. Buy a bigger one. Repeat.”
See, Rehab (The Asshole) makes my point! Entitlement!!
“Or buy a fixer upper or buy on the fringe of a great neighborhood or….we don’t make 250K a year but we managed.
As for The What-ever-he-is? Why are his rants allowed? I thought the posts were censored. Obviously not.”
Two people making 250k was great 5 years ago but, Inflation has killed that dream. Brownstoner loves me Assholes, my comments drive this site.
“Actually, 7:21, two earners making 250K (let’s say 125K per person) put 3:51 in the top 0.49%.”
On what fucking planet Uranus???!!! try .00049% Fucktard.
“I think Dr. Demento (aka the What) doth protest too much. For someone who hates this site and those who read and post on it, as much as he asserts, he sure spends a lot of time posting and replying to people. He’s probably on the site more than Brownstoner himself, who probably has better things to do than sit at a computer trying to think up more ungrammatical uses for the work “fuck”.”
I think I doth protest too little Fucktard (see)!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end..
Actually, 7:21, two earners making 250K (let’s say 125K per person) put 3:51 in the top 0.49%.
http://www.globalrichlist.com
And still he wants MORE! Just $500,000 would make him happy….
And the people who bought 5 years ago (when there wasn’t a yuppie market on every corner) are the greedy ones?
–Will
3:50 is complaining because he/she only makes 250k??!?? My heart bleeds for you. You can buy in so many parts of NYC. Ugh. So jump off a tall building – with your prospects this bleak, why go on living…
Or buy a fixer upper or buy on the fringe of a great neighborhood or….we don’t make 250K a year but we managed.
As for The What-ever-he-is? Why are his rants allowed? I thought the posts were censored. Obviously not.