2. Getting food poisoning from the hunk of meat that’s been roasting all day.
Halal carts: So delicious yet so suspicious.
4. Getting sidewalk-trapped by this children/animals/environmental volunteer gauntlet.
“Excuse me, do you have a minute for…”
6. Having a sidewalk cellar door buckle under you while walking.
7. Delivery guys that are way too intense.
Stay off the sidewalks, bro.
8. Walking under this rickety piece of shit while it’s being built.
11. Their personal trainer.
This is from the David Barton Gym on Astor Place. Equal parts terrifying and confusing.
12. Walking over subway grates.
Sometimes it’s a two-foot drop, other times it’s a two-story drop.
13. Death by waiting in line.
The line for Shakespeare in the Park tickets.
14. That someone’s going to steal your brunch table after you waited outside for 45 minutes.
15. That their favorite bar will suddenly one day without warning become:
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evilito 6 months agoI find myself increasingly fearing what New York is becoming. It’s a city with a disappearing middle class - only for the affluent that can afford to live here, and for the poor hordes that serve them (and live in squalor while doing so). The working or middle class family is simply not welcome in this town anymore. Generally, when things get like this, social unrest follows. I don’t think it’s imminent, but I think we’re maybe ten years away from seeing some real shit go down in this city. I also fear that New York is losing a lot of its edge. It used to be that the city attracted the misfits, the artists and those that were ahead of their time. Now, it seems to attract only armies of twentysomething “creatives” and “internet professionals.” Gag me. Manhattan and large parts of Brooklyn now look like advertisements for the Gap and Urban Outfitters. Invaded by the mild. Yes, I get this is just the bitching of an aging native who can be a little resentful of the new newcomers, but think about it…what of worth has come out of New York since the city was “cleaned up”? This is the town that gave the world hip hop, (arguably) punk rock, pop art, the beatniks. I could go on. And now? just armies of transplanted suburbanites in designer clothes and fashionable haircuts going to brunch and bitching about how poor they are (while oblivious to the fact that they live in one of the most expensive cities in the world, and live a degree of magnitude more affluently than the janitor that cleans their office). I love this town with all my heart. My family’s been here for four generations. It’s not going through a good stretch right now though.
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Sigourney C. 6 months ago@tyty, I’m a native and I left too. Everything evilito mentioned and then some contributed to my decision to flee overseas. I just can’t deal with the homogenization of the city. Sure it’s safer, but we’ve lost so much that made this city amazing in the process.
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mynameiskedre 6 months agoThe person who wrote this didn’t claim to be a native New Yorker, so your snobby comment is unprompted and only makes you look like an ass. Also, the idea that a native New Yorker is superior to a transplant is annoying as hell. I worked my ass off to get here and stay here; you were just born into it. So get over yourself, you arrogant twat.
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Youngurbanfailure 6 months agoMy fear is during winter stepping off the sidewalk into a puddle that somehow goes up to your knees.
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