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Generation after generation has predicted NYC's failure and demise.
They have all been completely wrong.
NYC's success is built on its embracing changes in business, culture, economics and global opportunity.
NYC's future is very bright.
The city has failed during certain time periods. That failure spurs the city to turn things around because it possesses certain innate qualities that very few cities in the US have.
People act like NYC magically turns things around. It’s not magic. It takes getting rid of a certain politics and then decades of work to get the machine back up and spinning in the right direction.
Evolution and degradation are two different things. Evolution implies improvement. The city has gone through periods of degradation on its path of evolution.
What has caused those periods of degradation? There’s a common thread.
Infrastructure. From the Collect Pond to Water Tunnel #3, the Beach Subway to today's transit system. Once something out lived its usefulness, it is replaced. Buildings, bridges, highways, waterfronts, everything evolves. Old gives way to new. Its continuous.
AS Usa falls from its pedestal, so will NYC. Times have changed and US is not the top dog anymore.
Greedy profiteers that ruined it will suffer too, but not as much as the rest of us.
AS Usa falls from its pedestal, so will NYC. Times have changed and US is not the top dog anymore.
Greedy profiteers that ruined it will suffer too, but not as much as the rest of us.
NYC remains at the top of the world, with the two others right behind being Tokyo and London. This isn’t looking to change any time soon.
Just another version of people who like to strut their stuff by doom-mongering and fear-mongering.
Did you watch the video?
He basically talks about the issues that this board acknowledges are true (affordability, crime, etc) but is ultimately optimistic that NYC will balance itself out and re-invent itself by catering itself to working/middle class people again due to necessity once things collapse.
I don't think it's far fetched to think that the model NYC is going by now will eventually collapse.
When? Who knows. There's a lot invested into it, so like many say, it might, and probably, won't be any time soon.
It could be in some younger people's life times.
But back to the point, I think it was actually the opposite of "doom/fear-mongering" if anything.
Is New York Better Off Than It Was 7 Years Ago? New Yorkers Say No.
From public safety to schools, New Yorkers across all five boroughs feel that their city’s quality of life has worsened in recent years, according to a survey.
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