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The UWS is not rabidly liberal, and is mostly inhabited by professionals (inluding older/retired ones, but certainly younger too) and upper-tier artists. The typical inhabitants would be my good friend couple, two physicians working at Columbia, who had lived in the UWS for 30+ years, and both their kids went to private schools there. Another typical inhabitant (and landlady) of the UWS for more than 40 years would be, eg, Yoko Ono.
Yes, that's exactly how it was - I'm glad to hear it hasn't changed much.
I was laughing reading this, because some of the most pretentious and hyper-extreme left woke White types live on the UWS. They are now getting a taste of the very politics they support. Why anybody would pay so much money to live around a drug, urine-soaked homeless encampment is beyond me. Lots of people moving out though, as usual in 2020 NYC.
"If he tells a couple of them to move along, “Already there are 20 around you. … They are now on Broadway. Everywhere. Everywhere. Sitting on the bench. Drinking. There is a liquor store. You see them go in and out, in and out, in and out and buying those liquor bottles.”
He added of the Lucerne, “Beautiful hotel, I can’t believe it.”
Loitering in nearby parks leaves the sites littered with needles, the letter complains.
The newsstand run by Malik Faheem, 54, at 83rd and Broadway has been robbed three times, he said."
Love this one:
“Then, they go to the next corner. So many times I call 911. So many times. Cops do nothing. Progress? Zero.”
If I were a cop, I would also "do nothing" because there really is NOTHING TO DO. Arresting any of these undesirables could cost you your life, job or your family will be harassed by the brainwashed, rabidly fanatical woke mob in 2020 America. Let them sink and rot in the filth they voted for. These people wanted to export that trash to hard working middle class areas. Looks like it's going back to bite them in the...love it!
These people are getting everything they voted for, or didn't vote for by staying home the past 2 elections. Once a couple of these dummies start blasting passer-bys in the brain with a brick perhaps these residents will wake up to the fact that the best years of this city have been from 1994 to 2014. When Republicans ran the city. The problem is that these people that kept voting in scumbags like de Blasio and the rest of the democrats in the City Council and Senate became to comfortable and forgot how bad things were before Rudy took over.
You are simply not qualified to have an opinion on anything in this city because you're not from here. Why should anybody take your words with a grain of salt?
So you're saying all those first gen Chinese and Russian immigrants in Brooklyn should keep quiet because they're not from here, thus not qualified to speak?
I took a look at apartments for sale on the lower UWS online - I do that every now and then. Had not done it in a while. Clearly the asking prices are down for the type of real estate I keep an eye on (studio apartments and 1-bedroom apts, on the West 60s and 70s).
It will be interesting to see how things go in the coming months and years.
I took a look at apartments for sale on the lower UWS online - I do that every now and then. Had not done it in a while. Clearly the asking prices are down for the type of real estate I keep an eye on (studio apartments and 1-bedroom apts, on the West 60s and 70s).
It will be interesting to see how things go in the coming months and years.
Prices of very small coops (300-350 sq ft) in Manhattan are in fact not very high compared with tiny condos in other major cities. Also, such very small coops appreciate very, very slowly, ie, they have gone up on average less than $50k in the past 10-12 years, and those on the market right now tend to have an additional $10k chopped off. A tiny coop in Manhattan and a tiny condo in San Francisco that were the same price at the top of the housing market in 2006-early 2008 now cost only about $30k-45k more for the coop in Manhattan vs. $100k-120k more for the condo in San Francisco (I know because I have been comparing prices every once in a while, and because I own the mentioned condo in San Francisco :-). It is possible that the tiny units in Manhattan beeing mostly coops (rather than condos) is something that factors into this. If you intend to buy in Manhattan, it is probably somewhat better to do it now (ie, in the next several months before the vaccine), but if you are interested in a very small unit (which you can supplement with keeping stuff in storage), you are not likely to miss much even if you miss the bottom of the market.
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