Go walk around 86th btwn Lex and 3rd at night and let me know what your study says then.
NYC is dangerous, filthy, and extremely expensive. Every day I’m thankful I’m out of there.
The point is NYC still has big city problems (one could argue the biggest, because it is the biggest), especially around homelessness and how to correctly provide care for them. That does not mean NYC is not safe.
I have never felt safer living in both Manhattan and Queens, as opposed to the Bay Area or living in Chicago.
Also this fascination with NYC and it's trash situation is such a tired and frankly disingenuous dig at the city. While it is expensive, no argue there, it is not dangerous or filthy. You'd think after having lived there for 15 years you'd have some pride in becoming a New Yorker (lord knows I do and weep for the fact I no longer live there) but maybe the city is better off without you.
So you just assert it's fine and continue with an ad hominem argument?
Allow me to retort: maybe it's a trash pit of a city because of apologists like you? NYC reeks in a way I've not encountered outside of the US.
If only trash was the only issue.
Walk around Chinatown on hot days and you can smell the fish juice the stores dump into the streets/sidewalks baking in the sun. Then yes, you have the huge piles of garbage bags on the streets everywhere.
But really what I was referring to was the infestation in many buildings of some combination of mice, rats, cockroaches, and bedbugs. This includes Manhattan and the outer boroughs and includes buildings where you're paying $3k/month to rent a tiny apartment.
The rat problem in UES is particularly bad. They're everywhere.
Of course there's the homeless pee all over midtown that you get to randomly get a nice whiff of as you're walking around. Or the upscale neighborhoods where everyone owns a little dog (so there are hundreds of them on the same small set of sidewalks) covered in pee every morning.
I'm actually amazed that anyone who's lived in the city would deny that it's filthy, it's so obvious to me that I didn't expect that to be controversial.
Either you're in that relative minority or you are completely blowing the problem out of proportion.
I’ve had many friends, and personally experienced, the problem with mice and cockroaches in buildings.
The rats tend to be outside but they’re not confined to the subway. They’re in the bushes in all the parks, in the trash areas in front of almost all buildings at least in UES, under outdoor dining decks, everywhere. I kicked one by accident while walking down the street one night.
It may also be a time period thing. When COVID began the rat problem was already bad but for some reason got much worse since.