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good move. For first time in months, need to go to office 2 days just this week. Dreading it, even though it will not involve walking NYC streets much at all. Remote again after.
This is a return to the 1980s style of NYC crime. Horrible.
The City has always been the 1980s city in your imagination, it's never changed for you.
The City has always been the 1980s city in your imagination, it's never changed for you.
Interesting point. It is entirely possible that people have always harbored a certain image of the city. Those people, for the most part, are not natives. I hate to bring up the natives vs. transplants thing, but it really does make a difference. Anybody that's lived here for over 30 years I feel really is not sweating anything. Just your humble MoD's opinion.
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The woman and child that were shot were from Rhode Island, shopping for toys. Great contribution to de Blasio's multimillion tourism advertising campaign.
Interesting point. It is entirely possible that people have always harbored a certain image of the city. Those people, for the most part, are not natives. I hate to bring up the natives vs. transplants thing, but it really does make a difference. Anybody that's lived here for over 30 years I feel really is not sweating anything. Just your humble MoD's opinion.
I am here since birth …
I tend to avoid the nasty areas as much as I can except for a short stint when I was working on rockaway ave near pitkin ave ..that area was awful ..the precinct down the block covered just one square mile .
Crime stats have always been transparent to our lives ..no matter what they were we still had the same stolen cars or radios stolen over the decades .
Except for one altercation I already mentioned at ally pond park the crime stats have never been an issue .
We have done a few photo shoots in the south Bronx , Harlem and a few other areas more recently and all were just fine for us but they are much better then they were in the 1970s
I tend to avoid the nasty areas as much as I can except for a short stint when I was working on rockaway ave near pitkin ave ..that area was awful ..the precinct down the block covered just one square mile .
Crime stats have always been transparent to our lives ..no matter what they were we still had the same stolen cars or radios stolen over the decades .
Except for one altercation I already mentioned at ally pond park the crime stats have never been an issue .
We have done a few photo shoots in the south Bronx , Harlem and a few other areas more recently and all were just fine for us but they are much better then they were in the 1970s
What I find is that if you live here long enough, your travels eventually take you all around the city in some capacity. Especially if you work here. So that's why I really don't worry about it. If people were really scared to go places we wouldnt get mail delivered or garbage picked up.
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Interesting point. It is entirely possible that people have always harbored a certain image of the city. Those people, for the most part, are not natives. I hate to bring up the natives vs. transplants thing, but it really does make a difference. Anybody that's lived here for over 30 years I feel really is not sweating anything. Just your humble MoD's opinion.
In my experience, people from outside metro NY love NYC, it's folks on LI and NJ who think the city is like it was in 1982.
Having said that, to act like we're not on a bad path is foolish.
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