Death of a Once Great City - The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence

[DGUtley]

The Death of a Once Great City - The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence. As New York enters the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is in imminent danger of becoming something it has never been before: unremarkable. It is approaching a state where it is no longer a significant cultural entity but the world’s largest gated community, with a few cupcake shops here and there. For the first time in its history, New York is, well, boring.

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Photo: Construction on 57th Street, Billionaires’ Row, by Fred R. Conrad


https://harpers.org/archive/2018/07/...entrification/

[MMC]

Awww my heart bleeds purple peanut butter for them. At least they aren't going bankrupt like Chicago and actually are unremarkable, yet.

[midcan5]

Interesting and good to see another Harper's Magazine fan. It may be that NY is what too much money does to a place. My wife watches 'Million Dollar Listings' which is kinda unreal as they spend more on a small apartment than most people will ever see in their life. But then visit the rust belt cities or the cities in the south that I95 bypassed sometime, and while picturesque they are dead in another sense. I am reading 'Deep South' and you get a real sense of what happens when everything is made in China. While New Yorkers live way above the norm, the rural regions live way below. If NY fell, rural America sank.

"Human beings will be happier, not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie, but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia." Kurt Vonnegut

[DGUtley]

Interesting and good to see another Harper's Magazine fan. It may be that NY is what too much money does to a place. My wife watches 'Million Dollar Listings' which is kinda unreal as they spend more on a small apartment than most people will ever see in their life. But then visit the rust belt cities or the cities in the south that I95 bypassed sometime, and while picturesque they are dead in another sense. I am reading 'Deep South' and you get a real sense of what happens when everything is made in China. While New Yorkers live way above the norm, the rural regions live way below. If NY fell, rural America sank. "Human beings will be happier, not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie, but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia." Kurt Vonnegut

Rural Medina, Ohio is doing quite well, thank you.

[Common]

NYC is nothing what it was when I was a kid and young man but thats my perception, others may have another view

[MMC]

Empire State of Mind.

[Captdon]

Interesting and good to see another Harper's Magazine fan. It may be that NY is what too much money does to a place. My wife watches 'Million Dollar Listings' which is kinda unreal as they spend more on a small apartment than most people will ever see in their life. But then visit the rust belt cities or the cities in the south that I95 bypassed sometime, and while picturesque they are dead in another sense. I am reading 'Deep South' and you get a real sense of what happens when everything is made in China. While New Yorkers live way above the norm, the rural regions live way below. If NY fell, rural America sank.

"Human beings will be happier, not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie, but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia." Kurt Vonnegut

I live and travel in the Deep South. Don't see what you see.

[Captdon]

Rural Medina, Ohio is doing quite well, thank you.

I used to live on Stone Road in Medina.

[MMC]

Medina on a Stone Rd once.

[DGUtley]

I used to live on Stone Road in Medina.

That's out towards Erhart isn't it? I live near 71/18 in Montville Twp -- about 7 miles from Lebron James.