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1/- I think the person who wrote this is very confused about what makes NYC great. I moved to the city in the late 1970s, when NYC was supposed to be dead and never coming back, but the city in the late 1970s and 1980s turned out to be the most exciting... https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/nyc-is-dead-forever-heres-why/?fbclid=IwAR04QTN2GfVLravWqUZLU__Z61EozUlJZJQwp6dAmVxclSmYeJU7o3-hFRs
2/- place to be in the world. Culture exploded in every neighborhood as young artists, entrepreneurs and creative types moved into cheap apartments by the busload. There was so much going on back then that you only were only dimly aware of all the exciting stuff happening just...
3/- a mile away. There were several major but completely different Latino music scenes in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx. Black artists in Harlem were doing different work than black artists in the East Village, and neither looked like black artists in the Bronx. Upper West...
4/- Side writers seemed to live on a different planet than Lower East Side writers. Minimalism dominated composers in Soho, while those in the East Village were in love with noise. Harlem hiphop kids didn't dance or rap like kids in the Bronx. Each of those scenes had...
5/- so much vibrancy and self-confidence that it seemed that you could barely leave your neighborhood without getting culturally lost.
It's true that since then NYC has substantially cleaned up and become a lot more "livable", but I don't see this as a good thing. NYC is...
It's true that since then NYC has substantially cleaned up and become a lot more "livable", but I don't see this as a good thing. NYC is...
6/- supposed to be gritty and diverse. It isn't the wealthy and large corporations driving up real estate prices that made NYC the world's most exciting city, and it is not because of, but rather in spite of, high rents that NYC became one of the major centers in the US for...
7/- internet entrepreneurs: imagine how much more would have happened if young entrepreneurs could actually afford the city. In my opinion NYC needs to "die" for people like the author if we are to see the drop in rents that once again encourages young people from all over the...
8/- world to flock into the city, and gives them space to take the financial risks that high rents preclude. NYC might not be as comfortable then, but you were never supposed to go to NYC to be comfortable. It was where you went for excitement and new ideas.
