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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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.
i constantly hear it also. it’s really gross, is what it is.
making 250k a year probably puts you in the top 10% of income earners in the freakin WORLD.
and to say you can’t afford a place to live anywhere in new york city is absurd.
you can get a beautiful 3 bedroom apartment in many parts of Brooklyn, Queens and even Manhattan above 125th street for around 600K.
that is MORE than affordable for someone on that salary.
So what is net take home pay on a HHI of $250K? With a two-kid deduction, let’s say. I’m constantly hearing my friends who make that amount, and have the requisite 2 kids, complain about not being able to afford ANYTHING.
4:26…i’m with you completely.
anyone with an income of 250k…even in nyc…can afford a nice apt.
i believe it to be beyond pathetic to whine about it and say you can’t afford anything.
IMMIGRANTS who have come to this country making 1/5th what you have, have managed to buy a home in this city.
you are entitled and greedy, 3:51.
5:42 lives in a nice luxury condo overlooking the manahattan skyline.
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”.
Yep, I very angry!! I have witness some greatest bullshit in my life. I witness the biggest asset bubble in my life. IO saw greed on a grand scale. I saw the darkside of human nature. Most likely I will live thru a depression (That’s Right Assholes).
Why Human nature. The lowlife bullshit of entitlement and greed!!! Gimmie gimme mine mine, you are fucking cattle and don’t even know it. You believe the Bullshit they tell you and you know what’s sad I will get hammed for saying this.
Inflation is killing the spending power of our money. High assed prices so ‘Investor Lou’ and other Assholes could flip houses but, they don’t understand “BIG BOY ECONOMICS”. The BIG BOYS get bailed out, you get fucked!
We are in the beginning of the Long Emergency http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/ and you are going to be so fucked, you have no idea.
Our Banking Institutions are insolvent (that’s right insolvent). America is bankrupt and The FED and The Government knows this. But the waring signs are flashing in you fucking faces but, you are brainwashed dumbasses that want to see the new CSI.
Yep, I mad as fuck and you should be too
The What
Someday this war is gonna end….
The What
I love you!! wanna share a nice refurbed brownstone in bed Stuy, bought in 2005, now looking fab with all historic details etc? really pretty!
I’m drowning in debt and can only offer Ramen noodles for dinner, but not to worry, appreciation and a great neg am mortgage will keep me afloat!
wow. wow. wow.
the what’s last post was so hateful and angry it hurt to read and made me really sad. i can’t believe some one is walking around with all that anger. so sad.