Help wanted: NYC needs it
NYC’s rental market now? Soft. Florida already has more seniors than alligators. Wall Street has offices down there.
Our exits will next be to small burgs in the Carolinas, New Hampshire, Maine, states to which nobody’s previously rushed.
Once upon a Giuliani his good mayoral days ruled a livable city. Squeegee guys gone, crime down, baddies jailed.
Needed now is a new local City Council who knows housing, social services, draconian budget cuts. Types who’ll work the city daytime. What we got now is a nighttime mayor.
Globally, this planet is in chaos. Understood. But in what was once the richest city in the world, we, locally, have our own specific suffering.
Fear factors
Question: Where are NYC’s hotshot bankers, our multimillionaire business leaders, the revered clergy? Harlem people are killing their own people. Why’s there no panel of black clergymen? Anyone hear our rich big shots speaking out?
Some hide behind their portfolios and gated mansions in soft rich places like Greenwich. But IT, whatever IT is, has already crept east. Connecticut’s where cars are being stolen. Know why? No law enforcement to stop them.
NYC, where the whole world once wanted to come, now has: homeless, crime, rats, migrants, inflation, unemployment, hookers, marijuana, drugs, congestion, traffic, high taxes, bad schools, empty buildings, scary subways, zero parking, killing taxes, construction crews on every street, infrastructure crumbling, empty stores, and East Side/West Side/all around the town there’s always delivery guys on bicycles banging into you when you walk.
Where’s the love?
And squashed in this city that never sweeps are Seinfeld, Spielberg, De Niro, Madonna, Scorsese, D. Trump, Mariah, Sarah Jessica, Beyoncé. Also we got us society types like Rockefellers, Astors, Vanderbilts.
Plus billionaires who could relocate to the glories of maybe Cincinnati like Bloomberg, Koch, Lauder, Icahn, Len Blavatnik with his 29.9 billions.
Anyone putting up money for a private policing force?
Bazaar editor-in-chief gets bizarre
The city that never sleeps is crying.
Yesterday the Yankees invited me to Wollman Rink so I could view the new sports game padel they were sponsoring. Then came “Don’t go. Not safe.” Hamas pro rallies were out. Temperature on the street was hate.
It also corroded the indoors. Take fashion magazines which today are as much in demand as watching Biden do the polka. Advertising’s pooped, readers down.
Comes Samira Nasr. Father Lebanese. Mom Trinidadian. First woman of color in Harper’s Bazaar’s 153 years when she started in 2020. She immediately posted support of the terrorists. Nice. Should help subscriptions.
Valerie Salembier, Harper’s Bazaar’s former publisher, emailed Debi Chirichella, Hearst Magazines’ president, plus its former CEO Frank Bennack Jr.: “Appalled at those remarks supporting terrorist group Hamas. Fire Samira immediately! She’s a fashion editor, not a Hamas spokesperson. Shame on her and Hearst for allowing this.”
Samira’s post was removed. So far she wasn’t.
BE it known that in New York City’s world-famous Bronx Zoo, the animals are kept safe. Behind bars — for protection. It’s we — us — the living, breathing, tax-paying citizens who exist here, work here, live here, love here, survive here, procreate here — we’re the creatures with no protection.
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
