Death Records Now

TV news coverage from New York is buzzing with the "peoples’ outrage" that Bloomberg and the "government" hasn’t come to "help us yet".

Pictures show NO ONE going out in front of their homes to shovel snow. They are inside just WAITING TO BE TAKEN CARE OF. Isn’t this what led to the death of fools in New Orleans, people sitting around doing nothing to take care of THEMSELVES?

We had record snow last year, and 3 neighbors and myself used our snow blowers to clear the majority if our street and sidewalks. How come the people in NYC aren’t doing anything?
Even if you live in an apartment, if everyone went out and shoveled the sidewalk in front of their building (only), then they could get around.

I’m also talking about the pictures where people dug around their cars, but not the street. I’m just saying… 3 days after the fact, it becomes APPARENT that you need to take some action yourself.

NYC had more snow than snowplows could manage, and the mayor apologized. Also, using your idea (rant?) of people shoveling the streets, where then, would they put the snow as they shovel it?

Your statement: "Isn’t this what led to the death of fools in New Orleans, people sitting around doing nothing to take care of THEMSELVES?", shows how extremely naive you are. There is nothing foolish about being trapped on your roof while sudden – and massive – torrents of water inundate your neighborhood.

Our records all show
You are filthy but fine

But they shuttered your stores
When you opened the doors
To the cops who were bored
Once they’d run out of crime

New York, you’re perfect
Don’t please don’t change a thing

Your mild billionaire mayor’s
Now convinced he’s a king

So the boring collect
I mean all disrespect

In the neighborhood bars
I’d once dreamt I would drink

New York, I Love You
But you’re freaking me out

There’s a ton of the twist
But we’re fresh out of shout

Like a death in the hall
That you hear through your wall

New York, I Love You
But you’re freaking me out

New York, I Love You
But you’re bringing me down

New York, I Love You
But you’re bringing me down

– i couldnt fit all the lyrics but i was just listening to this song by LCD Soundsytem.

And, now im only 15, so i never really got to experience this New York, that the song portrays. I love living here with all my heart, but did i miss out big time missing the "old" new york of the 70’s and 80’s?

Yeah you missed out big-time.

New York in the 80s was like living in Rome under Nero.

We had Queen Ed presiding from city hall, the East Village was Clubland, there were the Tompkins Square riots…

CBGBs was still open, you could eat Thai noodles, drink Russian vodka, listen to American punk on a Japanese stereo, and you didn’t have to be wealthy to live in Manhattan.