How To Escape from New York

Guest Post by Yuri Bezmenov

EXCLUSIVE: A bittersweet farewell to NYC – chronicling a historical decade of demoralization in my longest, spiciest, and most heartfelt post yet

Comrades: I am getting out of the city.

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Next month, I will be moving away from the Karenland FUPAZ (Federation of Urban Progressive Autonomous Zone) that I have called home for my entire adult life. Let me start with the positives before diving into the demoralization. My parents landed at JFK with nothing but $20 and a pocket full of dreams. I was born in the Bronx. I have lived in 6 neighborhoods across Manhattan and Brooklyn. I met Mrs. Bezmenov here. Baby Yulia was born here. I have made lifelong friends here like Rooftop K, Arthur Kwon Lee, P Lux, and many others from every walk of life and every corner of the world. I have accrued a lifetime’s worth of happy memories here, stories that I will tell my grandkids one day. My birth certificate, my wife’s birth certificate, our marriage license, and our child’s birth certificate all say NEW YORK, NEW YORK. We are real New Yorkers who leave with our hearts full of joy and broken in despair at its accelerating decline.

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Yuri Bezmenov wrote a love letter to America. This is my love letter to New York. Ironically, this Substack would not exist without my immersion in and inspiration from NYC’s daily clown show. I describe it as the based written version of “How To with John Wilson”, which itself is a hilarious visual tribute. Today I will chronicle the city’s demoralization over the past decade, layered with anecdotes of what I have witnessed.

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The world needs to know how wokeness and incompetence destroyed its greatest city. Please share this piece with anyone you know who cares about NYC and urban life. If it can happen here, it can happen anywhere. Our shining cities on a hill have plunged into darkness. Only by exposing the rot can we hope to heal; sunlight is the best disinfectant. This is written in the style of a war correspondent reflecting on one of the last choppers out of Saigon.

****Tweet this Substack link, tag @yuribzemenov22, and use the hashtags #EscapefromNewYork #YuriTriedToWarnUs.

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Budget 15 minutes to read in full and another 5-10 for each link you follow. On Tuesday, I will publish How To Escape from New York (Part 2): a list of my favorite hidden gems in NYC and invitation to farewell drinks (for paid subscribers only). For background reading, How To Visit Karenland FUPAZ (Part 2) described the unspoken caste system of every city and How To Visit Karenland FUPAZ (Part 3) documented what the “gun-free zone” in midtown Manhattan NYC looks like.

Housewarming gifts are greatly appreciated:


2011: Occupy Wall Street

Following the financial crisis earthquake, OWS was the first political aftershock. At the time, I was getting crushed as a banking analyst near the encampment. My colleagues made snide remarks about the protestors as we walked by during lunch breaks. Little did I know that a decade later, I would find so much in common with them. In retrospect, OWS was more MAGA/TeaParty than Antifa/BLM. The horseshoe theory is real. OWS wanted accountability from corporations, while MAGA/TeaParty wanted accountability from government; now corporations and government have merged and BLM/Antifa/Greta are their shock troops. Identity politics tore apart a genuine populist movement.

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pls fix thx – add the Pfizer, Moderna, Blackrock, and WEF logos to this sign:

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2012: Hurricane Sandy

Like 9/11, disaster brought out the best in New York. People looked out for each other. When my apartment lost power for a week, I couch surfed at friends’ apartments. The city defiantly kept calm and carried on. No looting, no rioting. My neighbors and I bought coffee and donuts for police, who patrolled around the clock for weeks until power was restored. My building’s super stationed himself in the lobby with a baseball bat and flashlight to protect us. He was an old school New Yorker, a dying breed. Gruff grizzly bear on the outside, sweet teddy bear on the inside. I’ll never forget his accent and attitude: “I ain’t fuckin’ around with this shit. Where I come from, we take care of our people. I’ll be here night, so sleep good. If anyone who don’t live here comes through them doors, me and my bat will say how ya doin’.” I doubt the city will be this resilient against the next real disaster, but I hope its residents will prove us wrong as they have in the past. Ever since Hurricane Sandy, I have kept a go-bag with survival essentials fully packed just in case.

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2013: The peak and end of a Golden Age

After 20 years under Giuliani and Bloomberg, NYC was thriving as the safest big city in the world. Strong men created good times. The energy was incomparable to how it is now. I never read the local news or followed local politics because everything was swell. During a fun night out, our crew bumped into legendary meme mayoral candidate Jimmy McNulty. He had the greatest beard and platform of any candidate in history: “The Rent is Too Damn High”.

2014: A Tale of Two Cities

Bolshevik Bill de Blasio needed only 300,000 votes in a city of 8 million to win the Democrat primary, which is the real election. Anthony Weiner was coasting to victory behind Huma and the Clintons, but he couldn’t keep his weiner in his pants so Sasquatch prevailed with his message of inequality. The tale of two cities that unfolded was how he took a thriving city and turned it into a shithole, worsening inequality and overall quality of life. That is the end game of equity. Weak men create hard times. I began seeing more homeless and addicts, one of whom defecated on my block in broad daylight. 2 NYPD cops were executed thanks to BDB, BLM, and Obama’s rhetoric. I still felt safe day to day, but these were ominous signs of what was to come.

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White pill miracle: Officer Wenjian Lu’s wife gave birth to a daughter named Angel several years after his death. The hospital was able to preserve his sperm and legislators passed “Angelina’s Law”, which allowed her to receive his benefits.

Pei Xia Chen holds her daughter Angelina, standing with a picture of her husband, slain NYPD officer Wenjian Liu.

2015: Bullets fly – I’M WALKIN HERE!

One night, we were awoken by loud popping sounds. Mrs. Bezmenov was terrified that they were gunshots, but I didn’t believe it was possible so I grumbled that she should relax and went back to sleep. She was proven right and will never let me forget about it. We learned the next morning that a drug dealer had been shot and killed in a drive by. As the city deteriorated, the assault on the senses amplified. Everything felt dirtier, ruder, more claustrophobic, more dangerous. My ears were pummeled by ambulance/police/firetruck sirens, blaring car horns, blasting personal speakers, and screeching subways. My nose was rubbed into hot garbage and human/dog shit. I began looking forward more to trips away from the city. Every time I left, my blood pressure dropped; every time I returned, my blood pressure rose. Why were we still hanging around when so many good people were leaving?

Me every day:

2016: Orange Man Bad – TDS epidemic

One iconic New Yorker’s wild ride from his golden escalator and into the White House triggered a TDS pandemic; many New Yorkers have terminal cases. He defeated carpetbagger Queen Clinton, who had never lived in New York until she ran for Senate. Her fellow artificial transplants loved her and hated him. Self proclaimed loving and tolerant people virtue signaled about how much they hated him and anyone who supported him. I learned the hard way that you will be attacked for blaspheming the NPC woke religion and that some NPCs are too demoralized to reason with. The wails from Javits Center could be heard around the world. The CEO of my company sent an email the day after the election offering grief counseling. I saw co-workers break down in tears. Sad!

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2017: Deadliest terror attack since 9/11, straight down the memory hole

A diversity lottery winner who pledged allegiance to ISIS ran over and killed 8 people on a Hudson River bike path, blocks away from the World Trade Center memorial. Like many similar attacks in Europe, the headlines said it was a truck and the story got memory holed. I often biked through the path where he struck and was shocked that NPC friends were more concerned about Trump’s mean Tweets than this slaughter. In response, the city erected ugly concrete barriers in pedestrian zones to shield us from the vibrancy of diversity. The perpetrator was quietly convicted just a few weeks ago. Ask any New Yorker on the street today and they probably don’t even know that it happened.

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2018: Demoralization hurricane alphabet soup – AOC, DSA, BLM, DEI, ESG, LGBTQ+,

20 years after Sex and the City, NYC fell to The Current Thing. A city that prided itself on originality and irreverence succumbed to woke cringe conformity. The Sanpaku eyed sociopaths, soy bugmen, karents, and Park Slope Panthers (Pansies) ascended to the throne. Fellow Bronx native AOC went from a casting couch to Congress. Her DSA comrades took over the city and state government. Bail reform sprung hardened criminals out of jail right after their arrests. A one-day pride parade became pride week, which then became Current Thing Month full of drag queens twerking for kids. BDB’s daughter was later arrested for attacking cops at a BLM riot.

The untimely passing of Anthony Bourdain is an allegory for the fall of NYC. Like the city he symbolized, he once oozed originality, authenticity, and charisma. Then he sold out to CNN and dated a toxic SJW, spiraling into substance abuse and self harm. Anyone who loves NYC hates to see what it has devolved to. Like an alcoholic, the ruling class can’t even admit the problems so there is little hope of any real solutions. Vito Corleone would despair:

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2019: Normalization and embarrassment

Yuri Bezmenov’s final stage of subversion is normalization, where the populace accepts socialism and its poor living conditions. Crime and decay were now can considered “part and parcel” of big city living. After backpacking through several “developing” countries, I was amazed that their cities were in much better condition than NYC. I never ride the subway because of how dirty it is, but marveled at other public transit systems. Russia in particular was an eye opening experience. NYC, London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Shanghai were always admired as the elite global cities. Over the past decade, they have all fallen in different ways. I used to be proud to say I was from New York, but at this point I was embarrassed.

Progressive, civilized NYC:

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Regressive, barbaric Moscow:

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2020: COVID lockdowns and BLM/Antifa riots put the nails in the coffin

A bodily virus and a mind virus did what terrorist attacks, hurricanes, and blizzards could not do. They gutted the soul of the city. Mass formation psychosis brought out the worst of the city’s Karens and their OCD neuroticism. NYC is like a cruise ship: you pay high prices tiny apartments because endless entertainment awaits on deck 24/7. Once the latter shuts down, you realize you are in an expensive prison. We spent most of 2020 out of the city to avoid the lockdowns and riots. Many good folks left permanently. That winter, I worked in an empty office where the lights shut off at 5PM. I walked home in apocalyptic emptiness and darkness. There were so many images and soundbites that I can never forget.

Obergrupenfuhrer William Wilhelm encouraged us to use a snitch hotline if we saw groups of Jews gathering:

Il Duce Andrew Cuomo ordered 10,000+senior citizens to their deaths, but was only forced to resign because he groped a few staffers:

Riots and anarchy took over the streets, forcing businesses to board up their windows. From now on, any policing incident would result in riots in NYC and FUPAZ around the country:

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Masked zombies waited in the freezing cold for hours to get tested:

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2021: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

New York had a chance to make meaningful course corrections in the gubernatorial and mayoral elections, but chose not to. The intersectional changing of the guard only made things worse. Stunning and brave first female Governor Kovid Karen Kathy Hochul preached in a church that the jab was from God and her apostles needed to spread the world, all while wearing a VAXXED necklace. Stunning and brave Black former cop Mayor Eric Instagram Adams talked a tough game about improving safety and education, but has done nothing other than take selfies.

Their vaccine and mask mandates further tore apart the social fabric of the city. Imagine how liberals would have reacted if Trump forced them to take the Trump vaccine, warned them he was losing his patients, then wished them a winter of death and disease. My employer and friends’ weddings mandated the jab. My building installed a key code on the gym because the unvaccinated were no longer allowed to use it. They will never apologize, much less admit they were wrong and were lied to. The most unforgivable sin is what they did to the powerless kids. Schools were kept closed longest in poor minority districts, jabs were mandated for extracurriculars, and toddlers were masked. I see a masked or trans kid almost every day when I walk around the neighborhood, and it radicalizes me further every time.

When you live in an area where parents pay small fortunes for their children to go to school here, then it’s an asylum. GTFO ASAP. These poor kids never had a chance:

2022: Stop Asian Hate

The demoralization accelerated. The 9/11 Memorial Museum shut down due to lack of funding. I grew numb at the zombified numbness of those around me and started this Substack to stay sane. Crimes became more frequent and gruesome. A mass shooter opened fire during a morning commute, hospitalizing 29 people. It got memory holed even harder than the ISIS truck attack.

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Then it got personal. A friend of a friend was pushed to her death in the subway. Another was stabbed to death after a vagrant followed her into her apartment. Stop Asian Hate rubbed salt in the wounds with its politicization. The entire movement is a disgusting astroturfed leftist gaslighting operation designed to whip Asians into intersectional victimhood, while ignoring the obvious pattern behind the perpetrators of the violence.

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Data never lies. ~3% of the population commits ~50% of the violent crime in the US, and that protected class votes ~90% Democrat. Asians are ~100x more likely to be on the receiving end of violence from the protected class than the other way around. ~90% of attacks on Jews in NYC have been perpetrated from the protected class, which plays the “knockout game” on them. To blame white supremacy is a farce. Asians and Jews are well aware of the patterns, which explains why their neighborhoods have become Republican bastions. The media is shocked that the gaslighting hasn’t worked.

2023: New York City has a brand

Nativist Mayor Adams proclaimed that unlike flyover country, New York City has a brand. The brand involves innocent civilians dying and suffering every day. In January, 3 heinous crimes in the span of 3 days epitomized the brand in 3 different ways.

A helpless old woman was butchered in her own home by a man who previously served 20 years for gutting a man. She lived blocks away from Central Park and the Museum of Natural History, whose removal of its iconic Teddy Roosevelt statue clearly solved everything. The Upper West Side is a nice neighborhood where a 1-bedroom box costs $4,000+/month to rent or $1M to buy. Its residents are zealous worshippers of The Current Thing, sipping on soy lattes and munching on lox bagels while pearl clutching their way through their Bible – The New York Times. They don’t know and don’t care that their neighbors are murdered because the NYT will never report it. The brahmans are too busy virtue signaling about saving the world to notice the carnage in their backyard. You’re the asshole if you bring it up. Jordan Peterson would consider this a pathological example of criticizing the world before cleaning up your own room.

In midtown, illegals stabbed each other while trashing a hotel that taxpayers pay $500/night for them to stay in. 40,000+ have poured to NYC over the past year, which will cost the city $2 billion this year. When single men were asked to move from The Watson Hotel near Central Park to other shelters in order to accommodate families, they refused and started camping outside it. Activist NGOs stepped in to block their evictions. Productive kulaks like me continue moving out, replaced by welfare recipients who will never pay a dime in taxes. The federal government and every American taxpayer will be forced to subsidize this unsustainable ponzi scheme. Wealth taxes and repurposing empty office buildings for slum housing are inevitable.

Like their Martha’s Vineyard hivemates, virtue signaling brownstone bugmen and Karens will never host a single illegal in their multi-million dollar homes:

Finally, a weatherman was beaten to a bloody pulp by feral teenagers. He dared to tell them to stop lighting an old man’s hair on fire. I used to live near the subway station where this surreal crime occurred.

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The NYC brand demands that the justice system and public art be fully demoralized:

The physiognomies of the artist and curator – demonic Karens:

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Studies have found that one of the main psychological differences between liberals and conservatives is disgust. I have seen firsthand that not only do liberals have less disgust or shame, but many view living in filth as a badge of honor. Chemical imbalances are the only way to explain such bizarre behavior. Deep down you can see they are kidding themselves. Most have thousand-mile stares, baggy eyes, and receding hairlines that come from working to the bone, substance abuse, and chasing status while chained to golden handcuffs. The rat race and hamster wheel never ends. Science experiments with rats have discovered that when they are subjected to repeated stress in cramped cages, they self-harm and gnaw at each other. Are FUPAZ residents any different?

 

How New Yorkers see the world:

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How the world sees New York:

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How New Yorkers think they live:

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How New Yorkers actually live:

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The US is in the midst of a Great Migration as sane people continue to flee from FUPAZ like NYC. Housing in non-demoralized areas continue to see strong demand, even as interest rates reach record highs. In 2021 alone, one million people moved away from California, New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts to Texas, Florida, Arizona, and the Carolinas. The blue states will get bluer and deteriorate further, while the red states will get redder and thrive. Every national election will come down to ballot harvesting, Dominion glitches, and other shenanigans affecting a few thousand votes in Phoenix/AZ, Atlanta/GA, Detroit/MI, Philadelphia/PA, Milwaukee/WI, and Vegas/NV. Election and riot seasons are gonna be lit!

I never liked the phrase “you get what you voted for”. Many upstanding citizens of FUPAZ like me didn’t vote for this unholy mess, but had to endure it. There are still so many good salt of the earth people here, unique characters who give the city its personality and edge. Many can’t leave due to family or finances. They don’t deserve it and we don’t have to live like this. Though it may not be as bad as the 70s and 80s, the fact that all cities are backsliding to the bad old days is an indictment on our society. The commissars who enthusiastically vote blue no matter who should not be allowed to complain or move out.

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There are still some rays of light. Many heroes are doing yeoman’s work in NYC, fighting hard to turn the tide. First responders perform miracles every day. Gavin Wax has revamped the New York Young Republican Club to thousands of members. James O’Keefe and Project Veritas are exposing the depths of corruption. Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels have stepped up patrols. Miranda Devine and The New York Post break huge stories like Hunter Biden’s laptop. Although he didn’t win the governership, Lee Zeldin came within a few percentage points and helped swing several Congressional races that won the House. George Santos is a fraudulent idiot, but he should use this opportunity to call out every politician who is just as bad like Senator Karen Fauxahantas and Joe Biden. Every New York county shifted red in 2022:

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NYC remains the best city for young ambitious strivers because of its industry, energy, and density. There is nothing in the world like the buzz of the first nice spring day and the first fall breeze. Dolphins, whales, and oysters have returned to a cleaner harbor. The new East River ferry system is a well-run and fun way to get around. NYC has fallen far from its peak and may never recover to its former glory, but it’s nowhere near as bad as the other Karenland FUPAZ around the country.

Anyone with a functioning brain and a heart has to wrangle with the choice to stick it out or ship out. Like many FUPAZ, NYC’s 70/30 blue vote ruins a 60/40 red state. FUPAZ DMZs (Demoralization Zones) are the new Mason-Dixon Lines. You have to move far outside city limits to avoid the infected suburbs in the buffer zone, which have the same FUPAZ “values” that groom children and protect criminals. Newark, Elizabeth, and Paterson makes NYC look like a utopian paradise.

NYC FUPAZ DMZ:

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Escape from New York was released during our last nadir in 1981, right after Reagan took office. Perhaps another Ron will save the day this time:

My journey has come full circle. As the Wear Sunscreen speech advised: “Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard.” I moved in as a soft boy, I move out as a hard man. 40 years ago, my parents came to NYC escaping tyranny and seeking a better life, today we leave NYC escaping tyranny and seeking better life.

Despite the heaviness of this post, I am happier and more optimistic than ever. My family will enjoy a calmer, safer place where I can better protect them. I will no longer have to remind my wife to stand away from the subway platform edge and carry pepper spray. I will no longer have to check my daughter’s playground for needles and trash. I will no longer have to walk my mother-in-law to her car at night because she is scared of getting beaten up. I will no longer have to endure racial slurs from the homeless guy who roams our neighborhood. I will never take basic freedoms and societal functioning for granted again. Less of our money will be seized by the state. We are all refugees now. Perhaps I will appreciate the city more when I am not mired in it every day.

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When I watch the skyline recede in the rearview mirror of the UHaul truck, what will I feel? Nostalgia? Joy? Sadness? Relief? Hope? Everything all at once? Where are we moving to? This sums it up:

2023.

New York City

is a demoralized Karenland FUPAZ.

The crime rate has risen 44%.

Moving out is inevitable.

Moving in is insane.

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James
James

Like Snake,just remember to shut off the lights as you leave!

Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath

Congratulations of your ability to get out of the sinking ship known as New York Shitty!!!

Have been visiting there with family since the 70’s…it’s been a slow and steady decline over the decades.

It was always a great place to visit, but you sure didn’t want to live there.

“NYC? Get a rope!!”, these always summed up NYC best….

Oldtoad of Green Acres
Oldtoad of Green Acres

During the 60’s worked with my dad delivering furniture summers. We delivered to NYC, I think it was 6 or 7 flights up, about 4,000lbs, maybe 3500. We spiraled the couch up through the staircase, would not fit otherwise. Had an Italian helper Tony, great guy, knew my father well.
We went through Harlem, the old International tractor trailer had a tiny motor and a Rangemaster transmission with 15 or 20 speeds, he was always shifting. The locals were clinging to the sides attempting to break the locks off. He jerked the truck to shake them off. Eventually he just ran through the lights, would not stop. It was quite a sight through the mirrors, I was in the sleeper watching.
Been to NYC many times since.
Always the smell and the sticky under foot.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Had a cousin that lived in Tribeca from late 80’s to right after 9/11.
He worked for Cantor Fitzgerald…he was sick that day and didn’t go to work.
My wife and I visited him 5 times and had a fucking blast every single time.
The best way to visit (anywhere really) is if you know and can stay with a local.
We always went in the fall to avoid the smell of subways in the summer.
It was a great place to visit………..

Klingon
Klingon

Reads like a manual on how to become the movie – ” Idiocracy ”

Re elect Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho

World War Zero
World War Zero

If only, Idiocracy was a practical utopia in comparison! Here we have that sci-fi dystopia Venn diagram “meme” of inevitable govt policy being birthed and unleashed faster than such a resulting film project could go straight to video. The worst is being scripted while we watch, shocked by ongoing, self-administered ruination. Final production in 2026?

NuGaza City, formerly NYC, the only place where NY state resident’s newly minted REGIONAL CBDCs work, as cash was made worthless by govt counterfeiting ops in all 50 Fed bankrupted states. One of 20 vast national prison slums, uh, Smart Cities, of corruption and misery, uh, Social Justice Reparations, managed by UN-FEMA Investments Inc. … you all know the rest.
Abandon Hope All Ye Who Woke Makes Free.

“Forget about it Snake, it’s Gaza Town.” — Ofc. Gaff

GNL

“This is written in the style of a war correspondent reflecting on one of the last choppers out of Saigon.”

First, my apologies for being rude. You’re on the last helicopter out because you ain’t so smart.

There is no fixing places like NY. It’s inhabitants are locusts.

Doug
Doug

Rats….

Your bldg. Super? Won't make iy here. Either
Your bldg. Super? Won't make iy here. Either

“war correspondent”?

PlEASE!

” At the time, I was getting crushed as a banking analyst near the encampment.”

” you realize you are in an expensive prison.”

“Impartial Observer”. @ best

Especially the ones trying to flee the sinking ship. 1st. The Gold Plating worn off’n da pussy? The genuine simulated Wood-Grain WORN to the Particle Board?

Suck it up Butter-cup.

Sweep Your own side of the street.

Sincerely. Stay There

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid

“NYC is like a cruise ship: you pay high prices tiny apartments because endless entertainment awaits on deck 24/7. Once the latter shuts down, you realize you are in an expensive prison. ”

except the Bronx. One can escape northward to Westchester and thee savage provinces beyond.

Gobsmacked by the analogy and imagery after this definitive photo essay on the decay and destruction of Western civilization as evidenced by the corruption, dissolution and hellish descent into totalitarianism of Babylon on the Hudson.

lamont cranston
lamont cranston

“Dated” a woman off & on who lived on E. 77th from 96-02. NYC was blast back then. Walked into Elaine’s one night w/ her & my older daughter, who was in college. It was around midnight.

The entire male Sopraons cast, minus Tony, was there. When they heard her Deep South accent, they laughed and we drank w/ them for 90 minutes. Their “security” guy was Charlie The Hat, wore a pith helmet. Gave me a card and said, “If anyone tries to f**k with you in the city, call The Hat. I’ll handle things.”

Empty
Empty

👍👍👍👍👍

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer

Brace yourself for culture shock!

ERISA
ERISA

I was born in NYC and lived there and the Jersey suburbs all of my life. I was able to retire early and moved 2000 miles away in 2011. Best decision of my life.

I lived in Jersey from 1994 to 2011. I commuted every day into Manhattan. In my opinion Jersey is good if you can insulate yourself . It’s expensive if you’re middle class. The taxes on my modest home was over $15,000. The woke virus has infiltrated even the most far flung suburbs.

I return to NYC and its suburbs often as I still have family in the area. The people get uglier and meaner with each visit. The best among them are just trying to keep their heads down. They’re like the dog in that cartoon. He’s in a burning building but everything is fine.

Pray for me as I’m returning to sell some property in Queens I own. It is my last tie to NYC. I’ll finally escape NYC for good.

mark
mark

“Pray for me”

Done.

Raised in NJ, left at 18 for the military, but came back (wonderful parents plus a HS first love).

Left again not long after the bloom fell off the HS rose (wandering) but came back (wonderful parents).

Left again not long after (wandering – had a job on an oil rig) but came back (wonderful parents & I now had a West Texas wife with baby on the way).

Left for good 7 years later (age 34 in 84 to West Texas) and never came back except for family visits.

One of the best moves I ever made.

Captain_Obviuos
Captain_Obviuos

Fun “Escape From New York” trivia: the opening voice-over is done by Jamie Lee Curtis.

Ivan
Ivan

Who the fuck cares, she’s a woke cunt.

Captain_Obviuos
Captain_Obviuos

Granted, also a childless dyke who married a beard (Christopher Guest, himself a prancer ofc).

In other words, she’s a Hollywood star.

WilliamtheResolute
WilliamtheResolute

I read the article, it was depressing but rang true. My take away from the article; I should start praying that the vax is as deadly as they claim. I realize that it isn’t very Christian but I keep telling myself that I can’t fathom the thought that God had anything to do with creating this plague of illiterate, Commie libtard sheep…therefore they were created by the other team and are truly expendable.

fujigm
fujigm

Remember, as Hochul says, the vax is from God…
If the vax is as deadly as promised,
maybe you’re being very Christian.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Did I miss where he said he is moving TO? That’s what I’m wondering.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Fuck new york left in 2004 . Nothing but fucking Jews niggers and spicks.

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid

Yew En?

Anonymous
Anonymous

The untimely passing of Anthony Bourdain is an allegory for the fall of NYC. Like the city he symbolized, he once oozed originality, authenticity, and charisma. Then he sold out to CNN and dated a toxic SJW, spiraling into substance abuse and self harm.

I felt this too. When he went to CNN all of a sudden he often parroted the MSM narrative. Watch the Libya episode to see just how much he had become a MSM mouthpiece.

I often wonder if he killed himself because of shame. Selling out your own values must destroy the soul.

New York city and the Blue-brainless have no shame so, unfortunately, will not hang themselves.

Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers

“I often wonder if he killed himself because of shame.”

Don’t be Silly! It’s because He…told a reporter this week that President Barack Obama is gay and that first lady Michelle Obama is “a transgender.”

Oh Wait…It Was old what’s her name that he said (anything) about.

my Bad!

Shotgun Trooper
Shotgun Trooper

Visited NY to do some work in the 90’s. Stopped for gas. Asked the guy for a receipt “for expenses”. He moved over to a different cash register with no money in it, and asked “how much do you want me to make it out for?”….. Saw that everywhere I went. Seemed OK at first, till I thought about it…

Anonymous
Anonymous
eraser
eraser

Well, “bye”.

Eddie
Eddie

We are going to have to agree to disagree.

New York has been a sh8t show for many years.

It isn’t anything that just happened recently………..

I lost a Family member who was swallowed up by the New York madness.

New York, you suck!

Anonymous
Anonymous

I only visited NYC once, in 1998. I was shocked at how nice it was during my brief 3-day visit. I was amazed at how friendly everyone was. The city was clean, orderly, and safe in my opinion. Prior to my visit, I remembered old TV scenes from the 70s. Dirty and dank. We walked everywhere all day and took cabs now and then. I even rode a subway once and it was fine. At night!! We hit as many sites and famous places as we could but with only 3 days we barely scratched the surface. After I got home I told all my friends how fun it was and that we should all go back. We never did and I never will. Especially now. I live way out in West Texas which is pretty safe and not expensive. I can go to many places if I choose to but NYC will not be one of them. Good post Yuri and I hope you find a nice new place to settle down and call home again.

m
m

When I visited in 1999, I wouldn’t have called it “nice”, but it was almost crime-free [to the normal tourist] which was a big plus in itself. (Due to mayor Guiliani, I was told.)

TN Patriot
TN Patriot

Visited NYC 3 times and had a blast each time. Last time was July 4 weekend in ’07. I always found the people quite friendly and as Lamont mentioned, once they heard the accent, they seemed to get even friendlier.

Guest
Guest

It’s on purpose. They have a plan to make cities ‘safe’ and it’s being implemented under (right now anyway) the 15 minute city 2030 plan.
As usual it sounds good but doesn’t end well.

Julie
Julie

Thank God you’re out! Good luck and bring the red to wherever you live.

eckbach
eckbach

Building the empire State Building. Sept 13, 1930 88th floor Carl Russel waves…
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