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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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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
>
> ———
>
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