Life in the hellscape that is New York...

[brooklynite]

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[Throck]

1. They said violins is on the increase in NYC.

[brooklynite]

2. Touche

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[soldierant]

28. We could all use more sax and violins.

[Ilsa]

38. I hear there's strumpets tooting their french horns for more sax. nt

[calimary]

61. Yes we COULD!

[ananda]

3. Good one!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. :)

[Beetwasher.]

5. Oh, Never mind....

[geardaddy]

52. Bingo!

[Turbineguy]

7. Very droll

[LymphocyteLover]

8. that's awesome!

[mwooldri]

9. Not to mention sax in public.... NT

[Lonestarblue]

16. No! No public sax. It's just too graphic!

[twodogsbarking]

47. Bad sax is better than no sax at all. Lisa Simpson.

[roamer65]

27. ...

[Abolishinist]

29. Never mind!

Admission, it takes a lot for me to get a tear in my eye, but thinking back in time to Gilda did it. Geez, only 42 when she passed. And what a romance with Gene Wilder.

They were barely more than newly- weds when Radner began experiencing spells of extreme fatigue in early 1986. Her internist dismissed her ills as Epstein-Barr virus and told her not to worry. But she continued having similar episodes, ending up in the street doubled over in pain on a trip to Paris. Radner, whose father had died from a malignant brain tumor when she was 14, sought out several doctors, asking each of them: “It’s not cancer, is it?” All of them said that his wife was “high-strung,” Wilder recalled, and kept telling her, “Go home and relax.” Ten months after her symptoms first occurred, Radner got the diagnosis she’d feared. Surgery revealed a grapefruit-size tumor; it was Stage 4 ovarian cancer. Radiation and chemotherapy followed. But through her tears and chemo-induced pain and sickness, Radner remained a comedienne. Wilder remembered her shouting at the cancer cells in her body as her SNL character Roseanne Roseannadanna: “Hey, what are you tryin’ to do in here? Make me sick?” Throughout her struggle, “Gene was a doll,” SNL alum Laraine Newman told People. When Radner’s hair fell out, Wilder recalled, “Those little bean sprouts growing on top of her head were adorable, like a new- born baby. I thought it was sexy.”

Had the doctors at the time done their job, Gilda might have survived this. My sister had a similar 'doctorial experience', not with cancer, she's fine now. BUT... the doctors at the time, in the late-80's, told her she was just being emotional (i.e., a female) about her problem and there was nothing to worry about. It took her seeking out a non-Western medical person, an acupuncturist, to ID her problem, which he fixed. I hate to think what would have happened had she not done so.

[roamer65]

35. Gilda graduated from the University of Michigan.

My counselor at UM was hers as well.

He told me she was just as whacky and fun in real life.

[choie]

37. oh my god

I think you just won the internet for today.

[SeattleVet]

6. It's NYC...they should probably make it a duet!

You know what they say about all of the sax and violins in the big city!

(Not knocking NYC - I grew up just north of the city, and went back and lived in Queens and worked in lower Manhattan for 9 years after I got out of the Air Force, and have always loved it!)

[IronLionZion]

10. Sax and Violins in the big city

better flee to the outer suburbs and buy lots of guns

[senseandsensibility]

11. Lol

[BOSSHOG]

12. First call the SVU

Sax and Violins Unit.

[jmowreader]

59. No, don't do that

I called the Sax and Violins Unit...

"Good afternoon, NYPD Sax and Violins Unit. How may I help you?"

"Yes, I'm at 103rd and Broadway and there's someone playing a violin right on the street corner. Can you please help me?"

"How many violins did you say?"

"Just one."

"We'll be right out."

Within three minutes a huge NYPD van pulls up. Finally! Justice! But noooooo...I couldn't be so lucky. The doors open and ELEVEN more violin players, two cellists and a double bass player pile out, set up shop and just start sawing away like they hadn't a care in the world.

[Upthevibe]

13. brooklynite.............

Beautiful!

MTG is a freak!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NBachers]

14. It's all the Democrats' fault.

[mcar]

15. Love it!

[Ollie Garkie]

17. Im sure NYC is great...

If you can fucking afford it!

[edhopper]

19. More affordable

outside of Manhattan or the high priced parts of Brooklyn.

[Celerity]

36. looks like its near or in Brooklyn Heights or Cobble Hill/Boerum Hill, all of which are deffo in the

high priced parts of Brooklyn

category















I prefer Park Slope

💙💙💙💙💙

Holy shit is this place the dog's bollocks:



https://www.compass.com/listing/626-6th-street-brooklyn-ny-11215/1288107404893405049/

[DFW]

41. Not many single family dwellings are 4000 square feet!

That's almost 360 m² That's not typical for anywhere. Beverly Hills, maybe? But not even Brooklyn has typical residences of that size. I'm sure one can find a perfectly decent place to live in Brooklyn without having to spend $6 million.

[Celerity]

43. If you own a whole brownstone or greystone you likely will be in the 3000 to 4000 sq foot range

in those parts of Brooklyn. 1000 sq ft per floor, and 3 to 4 floors.

I never claimed that those 3 townhouses I put up were anything close to the most affordable units or houses, btw.

I put them up because I liked them.

The 2 maps at the top show the wide variances in prices.

[DFW]

50. The price variance is staggering

I can only surmise that it has to do with the state of repair the place is in. The ones shown for sale were obviously beautifully renovated. I have only been inside one of those brownstones, but it was obviously in a state where it hadn't been seriously renovated for 50 years. The guy who had bought it made his purchase at the depth of the Covid property depression, and said he could barely afford it at the time. I can well imagine that he was in no position to spend three million more to bring it up to the level shown in the ads for the $7 million versions.

[Celerity]

53. The low cost ones are single, smaller flats, verus whole houses/buildings

[NJCher]

58. enjoyed looking at those pics

thanks for looking them up and posting them.

[Meowmee]

44. yep

where we are too.

[edhopper]

18. Good for you

Some of us who live in this shit hole don't have private gardens. We have to walk to one of the many well maintained public parks.

[DFW]

20. My elder daughter grew up in the German Rheinland

She was raised in Germany, and went to school there except for a semester "abroad" in Dallas. She had always been fascinated by New York City, which we visited often, as my grandfather, our daughters' great-grandfather, lived there. She got her associate degree at a college in Los Angeles, but finished college in New York City. She said, "I'm home. This is where I want to live." As so she did. She found her own work, her own friends, a husband, and (as of March 24th) two sons.

It's a big jump from a small medieval town on the outskirts of Düsseldorf to Manhattan's upper West Side. But she has now seen some of the world, and is big enough to decide where home is.

The closest thing to "harassment" she ever experienced there was when she was about 20. We were all in a hotel in Manhattan, and she went out to get a sandwich, or something. She said that on the way back, she passed a bunch of construction workers who tried to play a joke on her. We asked what kind of a joke. She said that they all started waving in her direction and yelling, "hi there, beautiful!" But when she turned around to see who they were calling to, there was no one there. It never occurred to her............

[FakeNoose]

31. Manhattan is a very special place, I'll bet she's loving it

I also have family in Lower Manhattan - my son, daughter-in-law and 16-year-old grandson. I try to visit them at least a couple times a year, but it was a challenge during the Covid lockdown. I had to give up visiting them in the city for a while, but things are back to "almost" normal now.

[DFW]

32. My grandfather used to live at East 89th Street, she lives on West 98th

Not quite similar neighborhoods, but not hugely different, either. The subway is just two blocks away on Broadway.

She has TWO parks to choose from to go strolling with her son, now sons, and she does indeed love it!

[FakeNoose]

34. That's an awesome area - my favorite German butcher is near there

Does your daughter know Schaller & Weber?
https://schallerweber.com/brick-mortar/new-york-store/

They're on 2nd Avenue and East 86th. They have the most wonderful wursts and authentic Leberkäse, and a lot of other great things like imported German candies and cookies. My son takes me there every time I visit. I believe the same company also own the German restaurant that's a few doors down too. Small world!

[DFW]

42. My daughter lives on the west side

When her first son was born, we looked for a place to stay that wouldn't bankrupt us if we stayed 3 weeks, and the only thing we found was at 89th and Lex. It was a 45 minute walk across the park to her place, but food shopping in our East Side neighborhood was a joy, and the selection of restaurants within a few blocks was staggering. Chinese, Italian, Indian, all the rest. We always took the subway from the 86th and Lex station to get anywhere. If it was raining, we took the long subway route to get to our daughter's place. We had to take the Lex line down to Grand Central, the shuttle across to Times square, and the the 1, 2 or 3 back up to 96th. It was still faster than a taxi, and cost $2.75 apiece instead of $25 for a taxi--which you can't find in a rainstorm in Manhattan anyway!

I don't know if my daughter knows Schaller & Weber. 86th and Lex is a bit far from 98th and Broadway, and since she grew up in Germany, she has seen enough German food to last her a lifetime! I can ask her if she has heard of it, though.

[GenThePerservering]

39. I once got pinched on the subway

I told my aunt who laughed and said she used to get pinched back in the 1940s lol.

That's about it - I never felt unsafe in NYC. I used to stay there with my grandparents. The best thing in New York City? Spending Christmas there! The downstairs grandparents rented the second floor of their rowhouse to the upstairs grandparents, so some of us had all of our grandparents in one house lol.

Yeah, it was pure torture, for sure.

[DFW]

40. New Yorkers must be one tough breed, for sure!

I'll bet MTG is having a hard time figuring out how in the world Georgia is going to cope, since any minute now 8 million New Yorkers are going to come flooding into the paradise that is her corner of northwest Georgia, looking for work and a place to live!

[LudwigPastorius]

21. Re: New York hellscape

They must not be anywhere near the Trump World Tower.

[electric_blue68]

30. Heh.

[bringthePaine]

22. violin? on PURPOSE?!! fuxache...🤣

[yardwork]

23. And, if anything, improved since the Trumps left town.

[AllaN01Bear]

24. @ least they aint the bagpipes and btw , what a lovely spot.

[Major Nikon]

25. Meanwhile MTG's constituency are fucking their cousins and the livestock

Certainly there's certain types of crime that are more common in population dense areas, but in less populated areas where people can use distance to hide their activities you have all sorts of criminality that's going on. I guess sewing fear of the big cities instills some kind of fear in these people that they somehow won't be able to rape their relatives if these big city ideas filter down into their inbred lifestyles.

MTG and her ilk are so bankrupt when it comes to original ideas the only thing they manage to harp on are these culture wars.

[bronxiteforever]

26. Well played Brooklynite!

[BidenRocks]

33. Tips go a long way

MTG must have been stingy!
I walked a way from Harlem toward 62nd. Trash night.
Interesting ambiance. Not disgusting.

[greblach]

45. At least its not violins in the street... NT

[COL Mustard]

46. Looks awful

I hope you get rescued soon!!!

[3Hotdogs]

48. Biggest problem, living in N.Y.C. --- every few weeks or so, a sickening stick shows up on 5th Ave.

I live in N.J. We get the same stink from somewhere in Bedminster.

[Ray Bruns]

49. The horror! The horror!

[niyad]

51. How do you bear up under this horror? You are so brave. My heart breaks.

[lindysalsagal]

54. New Yorkers love their city. My friends who grew up there would never leave.

I return for events all the time. The only people who would say NY is hell have never been there.

Ok, there are times when the congestion and the heat get to you, but, those pass.

[NJCher]

60. there was a show on WNYC

local public radio, about New Yorkers who left during Covid. This is what they thought would be permanently.

The host, Brian Lehrer, put out a message for people who had returned to NYC since then and was deluged with calls! He asked for the reason they wanted to return and the reasons were hilarious. Laughed my head off at the things that made anyplace other than Manhattan survivable.

On another but related topic, I was thinking about a friend's apartment in the Chelsea section. Just your average one-bedroom apartment. I wondered what had happened to the building since the 80s, when I used to hang around there. So I looked up the building on the internet.

Now these apartments are condos and run 3.5 million +. Yes, there is a swimming pool in the building, but really, hardly luxurious. Just average.

I recall that on the corner of the building was a retail shop that sold soap. The proprietor of this shop would make the most outrageous window displays featuring a bar of soap. It cracked up my friend who lived in the building. We would stand on the corner, looking at the display and he would marvel and laugh about how a guy who sells soap could stay in business running a shop that only sold bar soap.

Completely unimaginable today.

[pansypoo53219]

55. i went to nyc twice + stayed w/ my uncle on the upper west side. april, so i guess less pee.

i mainly hit yarn shops + art/museums, so i guess less issues. i did ride the bus more than the subway, but most people nice. one day it was raining + i was dripping wet + somebody even gave me a kleenex. i even went to brooklyn. i also got a great pair of earrings from a very nice street vendor who said 'the allen-bradley 4 sided clock was the biggest' when i said milwaukee. when we walked to grant's tomb i spotted a Buddha that survived an atom bomb.

[BlackSkimmer]

56. Pretty, but still too close to other people.

My garden is quite nice too, with lots of little paths and hideaways.

But it's on a corner lot, an acre of land fenced off from the madding crowd.

It's very quiet except for the birds.

[Martin68]

57. Love it! Thanks for sharing.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

62. I'm a lifelong rural dweller who is grateful to the folks who live in cities.

More for me!

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Someone had to do it.

[GoCubsGo]

63. So bad, it even made Colbert's opening last night.

How can you stand looking at those naked horses?

[shrike3]

64. Love NY. Great place. Could never in a million years afford to live there.

Will have to get back for a visit one of these days.