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| DATE | 2023-11-28 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] New job at Columbia
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Which is also in Brooklyn when you actually know the city welll enough
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 11:26:35AM -0500, Lee Horowitz wrote:
>
> IT was six men of Indostan
> To learning much inclined,
> Who went to see the Elephant
> (Though all of them were blind),
> That each by observation
> Might satisfy his mind.
>
> Also:
>
> California is a garden of Eden
> A paradise to live in or see
> But believe it or not
> You won't find it so hot
> If you ain't got that old do-re-mi
>
> As with California and Elephants, so it is with the Island at the Center
> of the World...glorious and terrible, [I make weal and I make woe, I am
> the lord and I do all these things ] contradictory, multifarious, and
> surprise! Better if you have money.
>
> So let's not clutter up the airwaves with all this katzenyammerei, OK?
>
>
>
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 09:57:08PM -0500, Matthew Simon Ryan Cavalletto
> > wrote:
> >> On Nov 27, 2023, at 9:37 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> >>
> >> > Are you living on a different planet?
> >>
> >> Yes, I'm living on the planet where we have reasonably-objective
> >> measurements and we can remember things that happened more than three
> >> years ago.
> >>
> >> And I am disinclined to be convinced by anecdotal reports by some random
> >> guy with an unreadable website full of stuff about how "Black Men are
> >> dangerous."
> >>
> >> Really dude — let it go...
> >>
> >
> > I am just one of the "dreadful" people born in NYC to a family that has
> > lived continually in NYC since 1834 so we wouldn't know much of what we
> > talk about.
> >
> > I am sure you also grew up in East New York, so you are very familiar
> > with growing up is a city where you could stand on the subway platform
> > of New Lotts Avenue and look up in all directions and see nothing but
> > rubble.
> >
> > I'm sure you've had the common experience of being surrounded by 15+
> > black young men and pounded and beaten to steal 15 cents.
> >
> > Or grew up in a High School which was afraid to open its cafeteria
> > because the last time it did so it ended up with a violent riot with
> > several students and faculty ending up at Brookdale hospital.
> >
> > You are a REAL expert on the City of New York.
> >
> > You grew up playing softball on an empty lot on Wall Street where the
> > Bear Stearns (whatever it is now) bluilding now stands. You remember a
> > choke ful onuts on nearly every street in Midtown and the hard working
> > black women who ran them befire Fred Black died. You remember school
> > hours being cut back to 10AM to 2:30 because of a lack of funds, and
> > syringes splatters all about Times Square and the call girls hanging out
> > at Nathans on Bway and 45 and the Howard Johnsons.
> >
> > You rember the Biltmore hotel and the shows at GCT, and watch repair
> > place secretedly hidden in the Rooservelt Hotel passage. You remeber
> > Penn Station and the Pennsylvania and Stanton hotel, and the Conrad.
> >
> > Because your an expert on NYC.
> >
> >
> >
> > Here are facts for you to chew on:
> >
> > https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/nyregion/mta-nyc-budget.html
> > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-17/ny-mta-budget-deficits-through-2027-eliminated-by-revenue-boost
> >
> >
> > https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/24/opinion/eric-adams-nyc-budget.html
> >
> >
> > Unemployment in New York City is 5.4%—more than three times higher than
> > in Miami... and that is seriously undercounted.
> >
> > Nearly 160 Wall Street firms with nearly $1 trillion
> > in assets have moved their headquarters out of the state since the end
> > of 2019.
> >
> > New York state and local tax revenue for the first seven months of this
> > fiscal year is running $9 billion lower than last year...
> >
> > according to the WSJ
> >
> >
> > https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/albany-watch/2023/10/31/ny-budget-deficit-estimate-cut-in-half-what-that-means-for-2024/71392544007/
> >
> > https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/bond-investors-largely-ignore-nyc-s-7-billion-deficit-1.2001749
> >
> > https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/nyregion/mta-fare-evasion.html
> > (that is laughable there is in ZERO enforcement since the DAs office
> > said they wouldn't pursue fare beaters)
> >
> > https://nypost.com/2023/07/22/nearly-half-of-fare-beaters-caught-this-year-have-had-active-warrants/
> >
> >
> > https://nypost.com/2023/11/27/metro/nyc-schools-chief-tries-to-diffuse-unrest-at-radicalized-high-school/
> >
> >
> > https://nypost.com/2023/11/25/metro/93-of-nyc-grocers-have-been-hit-by-shoplifters-this-year/
> >
> > This is a case of UNDERREPORTING if ever there was..
> >
> > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-15/nyc-budget-deficits-forecast-to-be-bigger-than-mayor-s-estimate
> >
> > https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/new-york-city-second-round-budget-cuts-nypd-fdny-dsny/
> >
> > https://nypost.com/2023/11/09/metro/ny-state-comptroller-rings-alarm-bells-over-big-apples-dire-financial-situation/
> >
> > https://nypost.com/2023/02/10/we-cant-stop-them-shoplifting-hit-record-highs-in-nyc-last-year/
> >
> > Let me know if you need more because I haven't even tapped the
> > Universities reposoitories of Government data and I haven't evena
> > addressed the mentally ill dumped onto the subway, or the sanitation
> > problem, graffiti, etc etc.
> >
> > https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2023/11/12/why-so-many-people-are-fleeing-new-york-city-and-where-they-are-going/
> >
> > Of all the families I raised my children with TWO remain in NYC since
> > 2007 and almost none of the next genration.
> >
> > My family that has been in NYC for 180 years, I have 6 children and ONE
> > is still in NYC because it is dirty, expensive, overtaxed and DANGEROUS.
> >
> >
> >
> >> -Simon
> >>
> >> ———
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
> > that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
> > proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> > http://www.mrbrklyn.com
> >
> > DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
> > http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
> > http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive
> > http://www.coinhangout.com - coins!
> > http://www.brooklyn-living.com
> >
> > Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
> > but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
> >
> >
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--
So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
http://www.mrbrklyn.com
DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive
http://www.coinhangout.com - coins!
http://www.brooklyn-living.com
Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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