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Majority of what you would really call dirty are heavily-trafficked commercial areas. For the most part, residential areas aren't dirty.
we are one block from the train station, the further away from the station the cleaner it gets. because the people that live further away, if you dont live there, you dont go there, where as my block you have to pass by no matter what.
so in one way it is good for convenience, but in another it is not.
It is dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, grimy, grimy, grimy,grimy,grimy,grimy,grimy,grimy. Words can not express the horrors that awaits you. The only time it is clean, is when somebody is paid to keep the place clean, or somebody decides to come outside and volunteer and clean everything. It is worst then "Soylent Greens". In fact when you drive up to NYC, boundaries, you will realize how filthy the place is. I can't say so much for the rest of the nation, but I have yet to see anything else as filthy.
The subways will make your throat itch, and eyes water at times. You might pick up a scent, that has a funny feeling to it.
Because the city is like an city within a city, on foot the whole place looks abandoned. If your in a nice looking place it is tourist town, or where non Americans live. The pay looks high but the taxes, omgsh the taxes..runn runn runnnn
Today I was driving around Bergen beach in Brooklyn. Spotless.
That is one of the few remaining italian nabes in brooklyn and hope the asians/chinese will spare it for good by not invading there....
although some of the italian americans i met could appear excessively dramatic or pretentious at times, we have to give them credit for being 1) hard working; 2) smart/intelligent as a group; 3) talented in the kitchen (maybe bedroom as well...); 4) adept at keeping streets clean and pleasant. There is a lot to be learned from by the chinatown folks.
That is one of the few remaining italian nabes in brooklyn and hope the asians/chinese will spare it for good by not invading there....
although some of the italian americans i met could appear excessively dramatic or pretentious at times, we have to give them credit for being 1) hard working; 2) smart/intelligent as a group; 3) talented in the kitchen (maybe bedroom as well...); 4) adept at keeping streets clean and pleasant. There is a lot to be learned from by the chinatown folks.
Bergen Beach and the Mill Basin areas have always been clean. People take a bit more pride in that area. I had a friend who lived there and they cleaned the front of their house weekly and picked up litter if it happened to appear in front of their house.
The area I lived in Brooklyn wasn't as clean but it certainly was not dirty. After leaving Brooklyn for the burbs and returning to visit family and friends I noticed that it was dirtier. It actually wasn't, it was that I got use to people keeping the front of their homes orderly and neat. The one thing, which I never took particular notice of when I lived there but noticed it more when I visited, was that homeowners will often leave their garbage cans out all day. It just makes it look dirty and unkempt. There is also a certain amount of litter that homeowners just seem to ignore in front of their homes. You just don't see that in certain parts of the city or the burbs.
Interestingly, a friend of mine who lives in Queens mentioned how filthy Main street in Flushing has become. I haven't been in that area in many decades, well before the influx of Asians. I went on Google Streetview and sure enough it does look much dirtier. It basically reminded me of strolling in Chinatown....lots of refuse all over the place.
Took this picture in soho this weekend. Make any excuse you want, holiday, commercial area, tourists, but this is absolutely filthy and disgusting.
disgusting, i know. i have been shopping along brodway at canal soho, I guess.....complete pig sty. It is actually an embarassment to the residents of the city that it looks like this. there arent enough garbage pails, and the pails arent emptied enough.
Our mayor needs to address the cleanliness of the city. Funny how that was the one thing stupid bloomberg never did, was address the sanitation dept terrible job they do for the city
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