West village's prostitution, drug, and crime problems

The West Village has the BEST tranny whores and dope pushers. That's why celebs gravitate towards the area. My advice, though, if you're around there: don't look at them. (The celebs, of course.)

Rufus is a troll, I suggest everyone report all his comment by clicking the "report abuse" tab.

Rufus was rejected by his dream school and dream city, Columbia and New York City.
He loved the city until sour grapes set in...

This is all well documented...
http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/8131-rufus-mystery-solved

He is so jealous he spends all day trying to post negatively about NYC.

Man, this guy is so pathetic...

"got rejected at columbia business and am pretty devastated."

"Oh well. I have to spend an extra year in shitty Chicago and reapply for round 1 next year."

"I've been to NYC several times but haven't really partied extensively. But almost everyone I've talked to who lives there tells me how NYC is so much fun and doesn't really get boring, people are interesting, etc. To what extent is this true? What makes NYC so much more fun than other cities like LA, SF, Boston, Chicago, etc.?"

"I live in Chicago but have been to NYC quite a few times and noticed a very sharp difference in the respective social scenes. Chicago seems much more fratty and bar oriented while NYC is a bit more upscale and pretentious. The girls in NYC also dress a lot better as well. I would like to hear opinions on this subject from those of you familiar with both cities."

"Thanks for the encouragement. I'm just really bummed out since I'm 27 years old, and now is the perfect time to go. And socially, I'm extremely dissatisfied with Chicago and really want to be in NYC. I just have to improve my application for next year and hope things turn out better"

Now that he's been rejected multiple times, he's changed his story a bit.

rufus is acting like a jilted lover of NYC, now that he has been rejected.

Perhaps you idiots should actually read the curbed post. Things are so bad that people are moving out of the west village.

I think rufie got rejected by a tranny hooker ... now THAT is pathetic. First columbia, now this ..

i am looking forward to the good old days in nyc when things were so bad that garbage like rufus would never dare to live in nyc.

Rufus is confused... he can't tell the W Village from the Far West Village.

Only someone who doesn't live here would be fooled by the broker names. Those are VERY different neighborhoods. Noone was attaching "west village" to the waterfront there even 5 years ago.

Just more proof Rufus is the jealous liar we know he is...

Guys, we love NYC because it is edgy. If it was more like Chicago, it would be Sooooooo BORING!

You never hear ANYTHING happening in Lincoln Park or Gold Coast. They're dull as dust.

Rufus - You are an idiot, plain and simple. I used to live in Chicago (River North to be exact). It is full of chain restaurants and has no character. Within 3 blocks of my old building (dearborn/grand) there was a Red Lobster, Chili's, PF Chang, Weber Grill, a 7-11, some other bad Italian chain I can't remember the name of and others I don't remember right now. There were tons of high-rises (which is fine) without any of the local character that NYC has. River North has essentially no neighborhood feel or character, no neighborhood coffee shops, no nice local restaurants, no boutiquees (unless you count a giant Nordstrom) and none of the other things that make the West Vililage a great neighboorhood. River North has all the bad elements of the various NYC neighborhoods but virtually one of the good things.

You remind me of the kid in elementry school that nobody liked who jumped up and down when he didn't get his way.

rufus
about 2 hours ago
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According to people on this board, west village is a nice neighborhood.

I love how Rufus never uses the word THE in front of neighborhood names. The way he phrases it, it makes it sound like the west village is really a village named 'West'. Not simply the western portion of greenwich village.

sizzlack, b/c he doesn't live here and isn't used to the local names. In Chicago, they don't use 'the' to describe any neighborhoods, such as his famous lincoln park, streeterville, gold coast, etc.

he's not very smart, so when he pretends to live here, he misses a lot of the minor things that are imperative to living here. He may know what's going on here, since he spends all of his time reading nypost.com, nydailynews.com, nytimes.com, curbed.com, but doesn't live here.

from all of his posts about education and trolling under different websites, i am taking an educated guess that he goes to Joliet Junior College (explains his JJC alias on wallstreetoasis.com)and probably gets mediocre grades, like Cs and B- but thinks of himself as very informed and intelligent, yet everyone knows he is far from it.

I do hope that he eventually finds a job in Joliet so that he can finally do something constructive with his time. Or he could just be an inmate at Joliet State Prison.

This is a great website about the issue rufus touched on

http://tinyurl.com/coaxs2

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Of course you wont hear about this in lincoln park or gold coast because --- get this .. NO ONE CARES...

Guys lets not ban rufus the goofus. He is the comic relief of these boards.

Is SE trying to branch out into Chicago; hoping that NY SEs go over there and start raising hell on their threads as Rufus talks it up?

This seems like a traffic-building scam. It's beyond ridiculous.

Chicago doesn't use the definite article with its neighborhood names because Chicago is a city of "A"s.

A Gold Coast (which one? Oh, the one in Chicago)
A McDonald's
A Lincoln Park (you mean the one with the tranny whores? No, not even. Just the one in Chicago.)
A Pizzeria Uno

One of many many, indistinguishable from one another. Disambiguation needed.

before I read this post I knew it was rufus ahahaahahah

Yelp: prostitutes Near North Side Chicago

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=prostitutes&find_loc=Near+North+Side%2C+Chicago%2C+IL

Oh, to lement the days of my youth.
Wobbeling out of the 'Flats' at 4 in the AM circa 1984.
Sides of beef hanging amongst white coated men huddled around 55 gallon drums ablaze with pallet wood.
Transvestite hookers shimmy back and forth procariously across the cobble stone streets chatting with the jersey licenced cars cruzing for the bizare. Search for a cab, knowing I'll never find one.
Old enough to know better, too young to care.

Duck into Frank's.

nyc10022: "Rufus is a troll, I suggest everyone report all his comment by clicking the "report abuse" tab."

Yes, I'm new to this thread; however, may I make a humble suggestion regarding your frustration with Rufus.
Psych 101: Everyone, no exceptions, must ignore him. Rufus thrives on attention, and your responses only enable him.

(Hint: It works with negative behaviors in children also.)
(Warning: Intermittent reinforcement is most powerful; that is now parents teach their children to nag/whine.)

falcogold: are those lyrics to something or are you actually a good writer (and a terrible speller)?

falco,
Try channeling some Lou Reed,

"I'll take Manhattan in a garbage bag with Latin written on it that says
It's hard to give a shit these days"
Manhattan's sinking like a rock, into the filthy Hudson what a shock
they wrote a book about it, they said it was like ancient Rome
The perfume burned his eyes, holding tightly to her thighs
and something flickered for a minute and then it vanished and was gone"

from:

http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/lou_reed_lyrics_2991/new_york_lyrics_8978/romeo_had_juliette_lyrics_103602.html

nice work harry

JS
Events of the past, all true.
The Flats are still there.
The 'unit driven' hoes...still there.
The amazing meat packing district...ruined forever.
Enjoy the expensive shitty shopping, oh the highline...
Screw every last one of those B-list celebs. (except Norton,who is excellent)

Falco, I had assumed that by 'the Flats' you meant someplace exceptionally dirty, but I'm pretty sure I'm aware of all the exceptionally dirty business establishments that were ever in that area from the late 1970s on. So then are you referring to the bad "Mexican" restaurant across from Westbeth? Or did I miss hearing about an exceptionally dirty business establishment?

Tortilla Flats.............bad Mexican?
Is there such a thing?

Maybe some more lyrics from Lou Reed's New York are in order

"There's a down town fairy singing out "Proud Mary"
as she cruises Christopher Street
And some Southern Queen is acting loud and mean
where the docks and the Badlands meet
"

http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/lou_reed_lyrics_2991/new_york_lyrics_8978/halloween_parade_lyrics_103603.html

Tortilla Flats makes the paper:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/14/nyregion/14metjournal.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Borgnine&st=cse

Whats next...refrences to the New York Dolls?
Why did David ever take off the dress?

Just trying to keep it entertaining.

What's wrong with the New York Dolls or any of the great bands that made Mercer Arts Center famous when Hilly's was still on 13th street and CBGB's was yet to open?
Come to think about it what's wrong with tranny hookers? I grew up in the West Village circa 60-70s and believe it or not it was a tough neighborhood. Not really dangerous, but definitely very, very different than it is now... There were working docks, warehouses, gin mills, bookie joints, native neighborhood born junkies and delinquents (i.e. my friends), infamous juice bars and drug corners (RIP 11th Street Blimpies!) perpetually on the 6th precinct "hit list". And yes, there were hookers under the highway (my mother worked in the meat market, she was never bothered)...whether they were trannies or not I not sure until about 1972 when I would say with reasonable certainity that many were but some weren't. And by the way, there were at least three places within a block of my house where a quart of milk could be purchased but not one emporium selling $1000 handbags (or even $100 ones allowing for 35 years of inflation). Nor did you ever see a tourist west of sixth avenue or north of eigth street. By the time my mother passed away a year ago, the ratio of milk to overpriced handbag availability was reversed and I couldn't do her chores without having to run interferece through the throngs pouring off the tour buses. Which neighborhood did I think was better? I could be living in a 1100 sq ft prewar apartment in (now) prime west village which cost me, even with the required gut reno way, way below market or not. I am living in another neighborhood (not far away but with minimal tourists and no expensive handbag shops even if there are plenty of owner/carriers of those products) and miss the west village only in nostalgia for what it was when it was just called "the west side"...

PS I apologize for my horrendous spelling. One thing that has not changed is the excellence of PS 41. Unfortunately, spelling was never my strong suit and years of being lazy with spellcheck have made it worse.