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Greenwich Village is dead to me. Upper class Euro trash and transplants took it from groovey to a corporate chain hell. Complete with tourists and fannie packs. Sad.
Sad thing is the "High Line" park is becoming one long dark canyon as every single lot on either side is built up with high rise housing.
Things do change & many times for the worse. My kids have told me that they wish to have lived in NY during the 70s & 80s after seeing some pictures. I do tell them that despite having the luxury of today's improved safety, they are deprived of the character that launched so much creativity & talent. I feel bad for today's generation. They're hypnotized by materialism, the media & corporations. All of which today's NY is built on. It's all for the all mighty dollar...even if it's shallow and bad for young people's well being.
The issue is that NY is so mainstream. Nowadays you're considered an outcast if you leave the city for the burbs. Large swaths of manhattan & now even Brooklyn/queens are unbearably suburban.
Baby strollers, glass towers, hipster clones. And what is with all the pretty gals that can't complete a sentence without interjecting the word like? The place has become a big joke of it's former self.
Your kids look at way to many photos. Meanwhile in the 80s my father had a shotgun pointed at his face while giving a passenger a ride in his cab. Yes lovely time that was.
Maybe people should stop complaining and try to actually contribute to the city's culture rather than complain. As someone who frequently goes out to see live music in the city, the people who seem most interested in actually doing something fun and interesting *are* the hipsters, rich folk, artsy fartsy, and transplants. Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Debbie Harris and Jack Keourac were all transplants. Judging by much of what I see both online and IRL, most people who consider themselves "Real NYers" spend most of their time complaining about rent, taxes, "those people", or whatever.
, most people who consider themselves "Real NYers" spend most of their time complaining about rent, taxes, "those people", or whatever.
That's because mediocracy doesn't vibe too well with real NY'ers. What YOU are experiencing in MEDIOCRE at best and you are paying out of your you know what for it.
Doesn't happen often but I agree with Bluedog. Manhattan has been changing from old NY for quite some time. Plenty of old school NY in the outer Boros.
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