new york sucks

Hey and its cold,,it snows,,it stinks too

I heard NY doesn't like people who making lots of spelling errors in their tirades, so I think you are even.

Yeah, it is a pretty overrated place.

there are still apartments that are fairly reasonable...they are small but reasonable.

it used to be a great place, when artists could afford to live here, now its seems more like a theme park for tourists and uber riche.
like a big outdoor mall...

no charm left

It's too bad the artists have been pushed out to Brooklyn, etc. But let's not forget that when the artists could afford to live in places like SOHO, crime was terrible and nobody wanted to live there anyway. Times Square and SOHO are overrun with tourists, but other neighborhoods are still fine and enjoyable for families to live in.

And, actually, many artists still live in Manhattan. They're just successful, that's all.....

ibet the above 2 commenters are under 35, you never lived in NYC during the 60's -80's , i mean CBGBs is closed c'mon, NYC is almost as generic as St. Louis

Uhhh, I'm the poster directly above. I'm 46, lived in the East Village during the 80's, went to the Mudd Club, Palladium, and Trax, as well ad CBGB. As far as CBGB goes, the truth is that all good (or in that case GREAT) things have a natural life span, and for the last fifteen years going to CBGB was like doing CPR on a dead person.

As for the visual artists, I went to International with Monument, Fun Gallery, and all the other classic 80's East Village galleries at that time. In the 90's it all migrated to SoHo with Mary Boone, Shafrazi, and others leading the charge. Then in the late 90's in migrated again to Chelsea in its current Gagosian sized incarnation. That's all healthy and wonderful. And PLENTY of young artists today (I just had lunch with one this afternoon at the Empire Diner on 22nd Street) are doing VERY well, thank you. This particular 30 year old I had lunch with is living in a great place in Harlem, has her first NY show coming up, and has been tapped for three big museum shows in the next six months. So all the whining about the dire situation of the visual artists in NYC on this thread seems vastly overblown.

Of course, I can't speak with any authority as to what youngsters these days do in their frww time, but I can tell you that as we had our own haunts, they certainly have theirs. It's a generational thing - it was the Cedar Tavern, then it was Max's Kansas City, then it was the Mudd Club - and so it goes, each generation bemaoning the passing of 'all things sui generis' to it's own time and complainingb that the good ole' days are over....get over it!

he shut you up 9.
back to the good ol days, like the 70's where NYC had junk rated debt and you could get killed on any street you wished.

why would you say poor artist moove to brooklyn???????????/ i am an artist and bought my townhouse for 3mil so i would say i am okay financially. i dont like manhattan but want to live close to nyc

new york sucks and i can't leave. my wife wants to stay here so i have no choice.
why do people stay here and live like rats with noise and angry people.

Methinks the only angry rat I espy is the complaining husband who feels trapped inside his own mariage.

#11 -- repugnican from fly over country, in NYC to do"sweet deals" never calls mom btw

I have lived in NYC for more than 30 years. I remember subways covered in grafitti, avoiding Central Park after dusk, and prostitutes pushing their way into your car at every other red light. I live on 10th Avenue now, in an area that was the exclusive domain of heroin dealers and working girls in the 80's.

As the city cleaned up, more people who had the means to live wherever they want stopped fleeing the city.

So first the city sucked because it was a dangerous, unfriendly place that no one wanted to live. Now it sucks because it is a safe, family friendly place that people want to live. I guess there is no pleasing everyone.

Only for multi mllionaires? Ever heard of the Bronx? You can still find decent prices there? How about parts of Queens or Staten Island? Why buy a 1000 sqft million dollar condo in Manhattan? When you can buy a 3000+ (if you count the basement you have even more square footage) sqft three family in Astoria for 850K? Its a ten minute train ride to all that "culture" in Manhattan. Whats the matter, the boroughs not good enough for you?

Forget I even made that last comment (#17), all you Manhattan snobs should stay there. We dont want you coming to the boroughs and jacking up prices here because you dont know how to bid on real estate. Overpaying for real estate is a necessity for your egos.

Nice work #10 in shutting up #9. The fact that 9 compared NY to St. Louis means (1) they have never been to St. Louis and (2) they just want to complain about something.

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You can always live in Yorkville

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