matrix.to/#/#rossmannrepair:matrix.org NYC is in the process of "reopening" - but will the businesses come back? Many were on the way out long before COVID-19, and the rate of closures & vacancies does not appear to be going down.
No joke, I work in IT and one of our clients is a road construction signs business and for Western colorado they are raking it in. City favorite is the classic "road closed" sign.
“That's incredible. Imagine seven million people all wanting to live together. Yeah, New York must be the friendliest place on earth.” -Crocodile Dundee
@@OneAdam12Adam hilarious amount of bitterness in your voice. resorting to personal attacks so easily lmao. Did your family kick you out early for your bitterness?
@@kelvin1316 no wonder, i live in Finland and last time i personally visited some store was 2 years ago, even my groceries come by delivery truck. So i bet sales has gone down bit on stores.
@@kelvin1316 it's also business rates, towns charge more tax on retail space in a town centre, despite high streets having died to out of town competition (where the rates are cheaper), it's a death spiral.
NYC landlords have gone without payment for the last year...same with landlords in all democrat cities. they are the LAST people to blame for what you see here...
People want to hide their renovation work from the city bureaucracy. If the Department of Buildings gets their way, nothing will ever get done. The cost of doing business in NY is as insane as the cost of renting business space
Living in East Texas, this completely blows my mind. I understand that there's a "NYC way of life" people love, but I live in a 4/2 on .8 acres, anything I could ever want to do is within an hour's drive, my mortgage is $432 a month, and my neighbors are cows.
My neighbors are also cows, but I figured it's impolite for me to refer to John & Corinne that way. and here they tell me new yorkers are the mean ones....
$432/month only gets you a room to rent here in the DC area. All the really coat minded people buy land in West Virginia or Pennsylvania and commute down. Plenty even drive down to DC on a daily basis.
$432 won't even get you a room for rent in the shittest part of Portland. I feel lucky I pay just under 700 for my apartment. But the program that keeps my rent that low is coming to an end within next few years.
I really don't know what he is complaining about. The owners of the buildings are the ones who are losing. Multi-millionaires who own the buildings are not getting any rent from ANYONE if they remain vacant. Good luck making the $500K mortgage payment on your $100 mil building with no tenants. Math is math. So they are leaving? So what? That the problem for the multi-millionaires, not a problem for the homeless people on the street. If it was that bad, why build more housing if no one will live there? All that empty retail space needs to be converted INTO SOMETHING ELSE. That is the responsibility of the multi-millionaire (who owns the building) to figure that one out, not the guy roaming around with the camera looking to cause trouble. He can just leave NYC if he is that upset about it. Just leave. Ex-patriate yourself from the city sir. No need for all the f-bombs or complaints. It isn't politics that Amazon.com has ended retail in NYC.
@@paulcolburn3855 I think he is talking about the people who leased the spaces to make a living having a business. Hundreds of entrepeneurs who tried to build a dream and were crushed during the pandemic, and will now have to live with the debt left behind. And also the employees, to some extent. I'm pretty sure Louis is not concerned about the building owners.
@@leonardodenardi3884 I agree he is not concerned about the building owners. But the business owners, they didn't lose their business because of covid. Retail was dead LONG BEFORE covid. Amazon killed retail, not covid. This is just Amazon and the information age defeating any reason for living an urban lifestyle. Small business owners do not open retail shops in NYC. The small business owner hasn't opened retail in the city in 4 or 5 decades. The small business owner opens a conveinence store, restaurant, or a coffee shop, not retail. All the retail shops closed, they were just a small branch of a huge retail chain that is now dying or dead. That is corporate money (H&M, Del Sol, Big Dogs, etc) being crushed/eaten by other corporate money (Amazon.) For the restaurants and bars and coffee shops closing, well, yeah that is also too bad. But I'm not sure covid is to blame for that. Restaurants in my part of the country are doing so well, that there is a help wanted sign in every window. Pizza delivery guys are getting $250 sign on bonuses. Its nuts out there. Covid didn't ruin them. They've recovered. Honestly, I think he's just p1ssed that he spends so much money to live in NYC and now (for whatever reason) the many places he took for granted in living there, those places are gone and he has no where to go. So he's just angry and ranting. There are probably very logical reasons why the restaurants and coffee shops closed (I'm thinking crime more than covid.) We have a law enforcement shortage at the moment, particularly in the inner cities. I wouldn't open a restaurant in NYC either.
Especially Now with things opening up. I bet they are real hopeful that things will pick up and people will start new businesses. Reality is going to set in hard when we are fully open but still no one wants these places.
I have a feeling the siege will last long enough that prices will eventually fall. I assume there is a lot of pressure from those that do have tenets to keep the prices high so they don't have to negotiate lower prices for those businesses that never closed, otherwise they would just move.
@@ReivecS Although once the prices do fall, there might be so much momentum moving in the other direction that there are flat out not enough people to even take those prices either and prevent a collapse.
As long as the companies that own the buildings are turning a profit overall they won't relent on the prices(empty commercial real estate is a great tax write off) they will just keep them artificially inflated.
@@brettdelawyer3593 I think they are talking about his New York real estate videos where Louis is trying to find somewhere to move his business into. He films the realtors and talks shit it's a good one.
I mean, some of the graffiti textures are pretty nice, but other than that the palette is terrible - it looks like when CoD started being all in shades of brown except even more depressing.
I used to find it funny that Glasgow is used as a filming location substitute for NYC. Watching Louis' video really made it clear why, they both seem to have the same level of dirt and grime, homelessness, graffiti, and have grid based layouts. They are a good match for each other and both have their own unique identity.
Please keep doing these videos Louis, documenting this stuff is important. And of course you know that a huge part of your audience love to see it even though most of us don't live in NY, or even the US.
I think it's important too, showing this stuff shows a different perspective on how the economy is really doing. I don't even live in NYC, but it's valuable to get insight into these things instead of reading numbers and stats in a news article or something.
I think he does the kind of poverty porn that is ethically defensible. I imagine his videos with the song "Was ist hier los" from Eisbrecher playing in the back ground.
News flash - much of NYC has been a shithole for much of its long history. (Long by American standards). Think of the hovels of the early 1900’s with immigrants fresh off the boat from every corner of the planet. Think 1970s Harlem. Think ‘gangs of New York’. Louis may have thought that the Bloomberg years were the norm and this year is the outlier, but in fact it’s the opposite, especially with a hundred year pandemic just (hopefully) winding down.
NYC, like all mega-cities, is constantly in flux. It was far, far worse in the 70's-80's, started picking up in early 90's and has been going downhill for the last dozen or so years. The thing is, NYC has deep DEEP pockets of wealth. Those individuals, LLC's and corporations that actually own the properties which Louis has been looking at have what I call "more money than god" wealth. It came from boom real-estate and also investment banks and other finance sources that have done well since greedy 80's. These entities can probably burn money in their furnaces to stay warm in the winter and still gain wealth. The best thing that can happen is for small businesses to quit NYC (like Louis seems to be doing). Eventually there will be economic pressure to decrease rent. How long will that be? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But it _will_ change. Eventually the great gatsby's will get bored playing with NYC like it's a giant Monopoly boardgame and start selling properties to others that are more apt to lower rent and keep buildings occupied.
@@funnyarc You cant be forthright with that one you need to softball the owner, you cant haggle as well if they know you know its valuable especially if they dont know its true value
Historians love a particular kind of person. Those who document EVERYTHING. I'm talkin daily meals, daily grind, average tasks, all that good stuff. If you want to leave a footprint on history, document your shit and protect it well. Someone'll find it eventually
The "protect" part is very important, as there are many people who dont like the average person knowing the truth. I mean, they keep saying that New York is "doing great" when it clearly isnt. These are the same people that complain about gun crime, yet completely ignore places like Chicago and Detroit where its an _actual_ problem. But, because its politically inconvenient, it gets swept under the rug and memory holed.
@@i-never-look-at-replies-lol I know you are making a joke, but it's still important. Historians are interested in finding out about life in all subsets of society, including silly out of touch rich families, because you can never truly understand a society by looking at just one aspect of it.
“The purpose of history, as I see it, is to uncover the forces which move the pawns on the chess board of the world. This and only this is real history, and anything else, in the final analysis, is of no intrinsic value.” -Willis A. Carto "I had a strong suspicion there was some mysterious power at work behind the scenes controlling the actions of the figures visibly taking part in the Govt. I discovered later its source is the Judeo-Masonic combination" -Admiral Barry Domvile
Imagine the game of Monopoly where the winner of the game gets to keep all their money and property for the next game, and you have no choice but to play.
The results will be nobody is going to play! *I have no problems cutting off greed.* This is the results of Conservatives' "Free Trade Agreements". Shipping Jobs Out Of The Country Due To Racism And Profits, Greed. NO JOBS? NO WORKERS! NO WORKERS? NOBODY TO SPEND MONEY IN THOSE STOREFRONTS! You can't sell fast-food to fast-food workers. We also have the underlying genocidal conspiracy among Europeans And Their Allies. People who think they're entitled to all the world's resources, and have the right to enslave other people. *They thought they was still in the 15th and 16th century!* *That The People Are The Same As They Were 500 To 600 Years Ago!* That the world is the same as many years ago. The more the vacancies? The more worthless they become. The cash flow is not there anymore. No real middle class incomes. No surplus 3rd Class Incomes. $30,000 - $100,000.
@AntiCringe thats what capitalism becomes. Humans simply cannot be trusted with managing any system of distribution. Imagine we play monopoly and I owned the monetary system and you start with nothing. If you dont play, you go to jail. If you do play, you lose.
As a kid, I wanted to move to NYC. I always thought I was just too stupid to make enough money to live there, now I'm wondering if I'm just a poor genius who dodged a bullet.
Nothing good in NYC , only getting worse. I guess NYC is nice if youre from like Nuckitaw Tennessee or som shit Yeah dodged a bullet? You basically put the gun down from your temple LOL 😂 sources: 22yrs TOO long here
@@bigpoppahonch As someone from bumfuck nowhere Tennessee myself, this video opened my eyes to just how dilapidated and mismanaged it looks. I'd still choose it over LA, but as poverty stricken as we are down here, I still think I'd prefer it where I am.
NO, Sounds like you need a welcome wagon and a coupon book. NYC aint like that. Go to a Jesus state for the welcome wagon and church brochures. You gotta make your own apartment door sign, nobody is going to do it for you. Maybe you are not man enough to handle it.
@@TremereTT Lino (Linoleum) or cardboard. Rubber ? Dude, we needed to spin on that stuff, not burn our skin off trying to ! ;) Anyone interested in the nostalgia of those films, check out the movie that spread the culture worldwide, Wildstyle which shows the culture jus before it exploded told by and with the people who made it and Beat Street which was made as more people were aware of Rap and Hip Hop culture. Both set in NY. NOT Breakin ! Although the soundtrack is great, that's a pure Hollywood movie. Fun Factoid: Beat Street was produced by the guy who started the 420 smoking movement).
That is really funny because I always remembered it as Taco Bell too , but I recently rewatched the movie and to my surprise it was actually another YUM brand , Pizza Hut
My "almost" third world Eastern European country, where a third of the population lives below poverty line, looks livelier than that. NYC looks straight out of a post apocalyptic movie.
So much is now owned by such a small group of people & companies (vulture funds) that the empty space doesn't bother them, it's just a tax write off. The only thing they care about is keeping the yield high and that means that they will not drop prices. If a building starts to decay because it's been vacant for so long it's the perfect opportunity to knock it down and build some fish bowls (luxury apartments in the heart of the city)
It’s funny. The leasers are willing to let a spot go without a lease for years at a time because if they drop the price the whole house of cards will start to implode.
Dropping the price wont change anything. Black Lives Matter made it clear they don't want commerce. Too much liability to run a business in the dystopian hell hole
Probably because of laws that make it difficult to raise prices back again after the pandemic ends and/or evict people who can't afford the new rent once they eventually raise them back up. Just speculation, I don't know if those laws exist. I also ain't saying it's not greedy.
@@almond5560 I believe it is because the high rent prices are the only thing justifying the high property values. If they lower the rents they “lose value” in the property, of which they’re probably mortgaged on which might result in them going upside down in the mortgage - i.e. they bought a building for $15 mil but now it is only worth $10m. So they’d rather lose money, they think “temporarily”, than risk lowering rent prices which they suspect might never return to their previous levels.
I am an architect and used to live at 26th and 6th Ave. My rent was insane. I used to do commercial white box interior alterations for landlords, and knew the kind of money they made. My wife and I escaped NYC on March 11, 2020 because we could see the lockdowns coming. We moved to a large western state and have never been happier. We came back in June 2020 after the riots to check on the state of things, and we were happy with our decision to leave. I’ll never move back to NYC. The happy and fun times are over. Now we can afford a house, and can start a family. Leaving NYC was the best thing to ever happen to us.
Yes maybe but there are so many levels of gov down to condo and block associations. Someone shows up and says it’s oppressive to enforce noise restrictions after 10. After all noise doesn’t hurt anyone, right? Remember the urine stink on every street in NY before Giuliani? The broken windows? And when he said no more ? After all who are broken windows and urine hurting (?). Yes this was said and it enraged some. I’m sorry and not at all implying anything about you but one would hope that the everything goes mentality would stay where it is or learn from the past.
This is actually so tragic and shows the system imploding on itself in real time. This will be precious documentation of the impacts of the pandemic in the future. Thanks for the footage Ross!
These problems existed long before the pandemic. They may be worse now. Just remember: the pandemic did nothing by itself. The government overreaction to the pandemic caused all the damage.
@@bbgun061 The pandemic was vastly overreacted and overblown. I did not get my shot until just last week and I never once got sick, and I was out in stores 3 times a week.
@@arieson7715 Because you have to, to be able to get into the stores and get the shit done that I need to get done. A lot of stores around here want vax proof to get into the store without a mask. That's the only reason I got it. And yes I did get sick from it. I had a sore throat and mucousy type throat and nose issues as well as a sore and totally weak arm for 2 days.
This isn't normal btw. The entire area has gone drastically downhill in the last decade. All of those stores used to be open and empty storefronts were a rarity. It's very sad what has happened to Manhattan recently.
normally that should be countered by owners dropping rent prices, but as mentioned in an earlier video, that's often not possible because of how the loans are structured. (basicly reducing the rent, forces the owners to pay the bank a lot of money)
@@Robbedem That's not a good reason, just an excuse. Landlords can always seek restructuring if they are becoming insolvent. Banks don't want to write off such massive amounts of their outstanding loans.
Someone told me a few years ago, that most of the scaffolding you see in New York isn't there for building work. It's there too stop people being injured by bits falling off the buildings, because they're in such poor shape!
@@DouglasTimes several of our buildings are being evacuated now after that initial collapse. People have been complaining here for years about the deteriorating state of buildings, but all the owners would say is "Yeah okay, we'll look into it!" And do nothing. It took the death of a bunch of innocent people to get laws changed quickly, and passed. It's why I tell people not to come to Miami, our infrastructure has been deteriorating and no one's doing anything about it. Such a drastic change from what it was shown to be on the back at my home country where I was from.
you get a temporary power-up that makes you go faster, an e-bike. it's a temporary power-up, because at some point the battery in it decides to explode
As I was thinking to myself "What a shithole..." Louis goes ahead and says the exact word. I know NY isn't exactly known for being cleanly and pristine but the stuff you show is fucking depressing.
Yeah, why do people pay 5K a month to life in New York ? Just because of the name ? Wouldn't life there for free. I pay 600 a month and live in The Netherlands with beautifull scenery and water around me and a lot of green and places to walk with the dog.... LoL.
I'm not sure you realize how important documenting this with footage really is. Please go back and do more, in depth and take a count & provide stats. You're uncovering something many people are ignorant to.
This whole city looks like the shopping mall in the next town over. There are maybe 4 or 5 stores in the mall that haven't closed yet, only 2 restaurants in the food court. It's just depressing walking through there now
I guess we're seeing very, very different echoes, then. People dropping graffiti on abandoned property like it's open canvas, property leasers who will lie about a place's market demand and desirability to rush people into purchases for overpriced properties, trash openly left on sidewalks because their owners can't be arsed to find a trash can, people unable to film dogs because the women who are walking them will accuse them of being perverts trying to catch them on film... these do not "echo" an "amazing" city, they echo a reason I will actively avoid ever working in D.C. if possible. Cities have a fantastic way of cultivating the spoiled, the corrupt, pretentious, the manipulative, and the just plain _mean_ and somehow excusing all of it as just "part of the culture." NY can fucking writhe in it, and their pizza's shit, too.
@@TheLegendInYou People are the soul of a building.When they exit, like the spirit leaving a body, the building becomes a corpse, prone to decay from low life.
Why anyone would want to live in what seems to becoming the city equivalent of a corpse in a trash can in such dense, overpacked areas is way beyond me. NYC is dying
As a Brit, I came over here with a friend in the summer of '99 to spend my 21st birthday in NY. Did it on the cheap, staying in youth hostels for a couple of weeks - mostly at the Chelsea International hostel. Back then it was such a vibrant place - people, traffic, street vendors, a deli on every corner, basically it delivered what every movie based around New York had been promising me for years. What a shame to see what it has become now. All I can say is that I'm glad we visited when we did.
Same story with me and Florida. Went in 2000 with my dad, mum and brother to visit some family we have over there. Wouldn't want to go now with the opiate epidemic and the effect it's had on people's mental health. One of my cousin's who lives over there has been swallowed up by it. It's tragic. Society is decaying and regular people like my cousin are falling victim to it.
Ya it's a great way to get a lot of people killed. How many NYC buildings are just as bad off as the one that fell in Florida do you think? I bet it's a huge number.
@@semosurvivalist as a nyc resident I'm honestly more worried about human failure than structural failure - being struck by an AC unit that some schmoe didn't instal correctly is a much more rational fear lol
he should call them back and say: hey i noticed that place has been vacant for like 18mts now so clearly seeing that no one wants it i'll offer you $4k
It’s like they took “supply and demand” and just said away with that, and made up their own fake demand to make it seem like everything is highly desired.
Banks have been doing it to houses for years. They own the houses but don't sell them so the other homes in the vicinity sell for higher. I suspect with the post-covid economy they'll play this game even harder.
Yeah, notice how many of the signs are from the same few companies/agencies. Then think on the fact that there is almost 40 times as many empty homes as their are homeless people, for almost a decade if not much much longer.
Damm, hearing him saying stuff like “this is smaller than my bathroom” or “half the size of my living room” really puts into perspective how poor I am when I pause to look at the space
@@esvegateban They're poor in our view. If my land were in NYC, thousands of people would live here instead of just me. I have five buildings I put up myself and I have never filed a single permit, no inspections, no codes, no zoning... complete freedom.
The permit thing is 100% accurate. My uncle had agreed to a price and filed for the super $$$ permits, it took 9 months and by then prices were doubled. Since then he moved his business to Long Island as there's at least some foot traffic.
Respect for not filming you donating some money to the homeless! Crazy that I should have to say that, but yeah it's almost the norm for youtubers to have to film them helping the homeless and make a whole song and dance about it. Truly tragic and very vexing situation in NYC... as that mayoral candidate said ~10 years ago : "The rent is too damn high!"
I'm a bit late to reply, but, I've lived in Phoenix, AZ for the last couple of years before deciding to move back to my hometown. I can honestly say that the symptoms of urban decay are happening in every major city, and that New York City is only the worst example of the lot. In Phoenix, during the short time I lived there, I watched my rent raise from $780 to $1,250 per month for a one bedroom apartment in one of the North valley ghettos. As soon as COVID-19 reached pandemic status, the two homeless people who lived in the park at night multiplied to over thirty in a month. Then, after enough people were fully vaccinated and everything began to return to normal, every other apartment complex closed their doors to new tenants so they could squeeze more money from desperate people who didn't want to be thrown onto the streets. Our economy and society are both broken and have been for at least 35 to 40 years, by now. When I was rehired at the factory when I came back home, I found a skeleton crew working there and only half of the familiar faces I knew remained, after last year's layoffs. And they can't keep new employees even after they've reinstated the pension program. That one blew my mind until I realized that being on unemployment is now more profitable than working for a living.
Basically only multinational corporations can afford such high rents. New York is soon going to resemble a suburban shopping mall filled with chains more so than it already was pre-covid. Most everyone else will just start businesses that don’t require brick and mortar storefronts.
I've been here 3 decades. New York has been on a steady decline for as long as I can remember, this shut down was the death blow and frankly, no one that has lived here actually cares enough about it's future for there to be a turnaround. The mass exodus is just the beginning and I only see the streets and living conditions becoming worse as time progresses.
Truthfully bro I see some bad shit POTENTIALLY happening for the US GEOPOLITICALLY in nxt 6 months to a year.. ECONOMICALLY in the next 2 to 5 months and socially in the next 3.. idk just a gut feeling
I wouldnt say so, since COVID hit/crime rose, everyone(who could afford it) started driving instead of using the subway... Traffic is a LOT worse than it used to be, NYC even beat LA for the worst traffic in the country for 2020 !
Wow this reminds me of early 80's NYC Mayor Dinkin's era. The store front that reeked of shit and piss use to be my favorite Irish Pub that was priced out of business due to rent in the mid 2000's.
This is extremely haunting because I used to live in CT, and visited NYC frequently, especially in 2019 it was very vibrant and happening, and now two years later it is so sad.
@@rainypath96 Haha sorry, this was an exaggeration. In Berlin, I notice many stores which never have customers, but are always open, so I assume these only launder money. In the videos, I didn't even see this kind of shops.
@@rayray7244 Maybe this is more apt on this particular video... New York New York. Melle Mel tellin like it is like he does. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lecfn2D9Y94.html
I used to go to school in this area-a block down from the ‘fishbowl’ building he was talking about earlier. It was just a few years ago but it’s depressing to see how much it’s changed.
It i the airbnb problem. These fake motels need to pay higher taxes because they increase the cost of services to people who actually live there who are getting squeezed out by the housing flippers.
This video showing the state of Manhattan, which was arguably the greatest city in the world, is symbolic of the terminal decline of the Unites States. It should be noted that Covid alone was not responsible for this. There has been a greater depression due in the US for a very long time.
@@dojocho1894 No, I disagree. The money was sitting overseas to avoid taxation, and should have stayed there. Now the outsourcing that began with Reagan was a real problem, but it was being pushed by dozens of people, not just the president.
Not enough regulation on landlords. They ran rampant raising prices to obscene levels and now no one can afford it Edit: If it were up to me it'd be illegal to raise rent by more than 2% a year and places like this where the landlord is charging obscene rents I'd give them 6 months to get it leased out or we'll open the doors and let the homeless move in I bet that rent would come down real fast 😂
@@rossmanngroup I was, my favorite was when the guy started saying we were all entitled to free land as Americans, but was also raving about us becoming a communist nation. Love it. Just like you said, they have some good ideas and then they take it beyond reason.
Landlords still have their minimum costs too. But something must be better than nothing I would think. Could have something to do w/ liabilities and getting rid of tenets if a full paying tenet comes along.
@@goosedeathable I agree. I would assume it would make sense to rent the space for cheap for short contracts. You'd have to accept pretty low rent compared to normal situation but things are not normal right now.
This looks like the dead downtowns of many Midwestern small cities. No people even at peak hours, lots of empty storefronts "under construction" or for lease, and graffiti everywhere.
in STL, can confirm lol. middle of the week day downtown theres barely cars on the roads. in the "financial" downtown area at dinner time, most restaurants are empty.
I live in Reno and life is really returning to normal. Most people are vaccinated, or pretend they are vaccinated, and stores are pretty busy, and the job market is slowly returning to normal....well at least for everyone but Amazon, and Urban Outfitters because they are so bad that Amazon is offering 1K bonus, and double overtime respectively because everyone willing to work there has already been fired, or quit.
Wow! Thanks for posting this Louis. I live in Brooklyn, but have hardly bothered going into Manhattan in the past year and four months. I maybe went in 6 times, which is crazy as I used to go in about 6 times a week. It looks bad. Brooklyn and Queens seem to have come back to a much greater degree of normalcy. But Manhattan is a rotting carcass of what it used to be. Something has to be done about the price to lease a square foot of Manhattan. It's been outrageous for far too many years. With most buyers and sellers content to do their business online, the city needs to incentivize brick and mortar businesses. $40,000 a month for the privilege of renting someone else's space is unsustainable, especially for unique mom & pop shops that make the city special, rather than the same old soulless corporate chains. Then you wonder why everything is so damn expensive, and why there are so many tourist traps. Well it's because you have to make $40,000 every month before you can even think about turning a profit.
*It’s an extremely gross, dismal, and dangerous city. Don’t go there if you care about the USA. New Yorkers generally don’t give a shit about the USA or their fellow citizen - homelessness wouldn’t exist otherwise.*
At 11:15 when he says "so when you're paying six thousand or what ever the fuck to live in this shitty fishbowl". I lost it. That was truthful and hilarious.
I was watching "world trade center" on Netflix to waste time on the holiday.... I felt like early 2000's NYC was so vivid in my memory that I almost cried remembering those days.
@Mark Guerrera NYC had a rough time in the 70s and Ed Koch was able to turn the situation around (in a time when democrats weren't totally crazy), So in theory it can see better days in future. I have been to NYC a decade ago and it was an amazing city. I stayed in Harlem in a cheap B&B and I felt really safe there. It is amazing how much damage bad politics can do in so little time. I hope your are wrong, that the city will never recover. But it would take several years to get it back on track, if possible,
My Family owned a Brownstone with two Commercial Stores back in the 1970's. Although you could see the future despair when the City went bankrupt in 1975, the Stores on the Block WERE NEVER Vacant. Why you could see the future despair is that the greed was out of control but still nobody would believe rents for an Apartment would reach 6 thousand a month. So no surprise that the City is in the shape that it is in.
@@lpk6372 NJ. I'm just saying, the blocks of empty buildings and graffiti shown in this video reminds me of how NY was depicted on film in the 80's. It's interesting.
@@Proseless It does seem like NYC is going back to its "roots' as they say. I didn't grow up in NY but stayed with my aunt sometimes in the Bronx in late 90's. All I know is 80's and early 90's films seem to accurately depict NYC in that era from what I heard other people say who lived there. Could be wrong though.
To be honest, something really changed in the city after the collapse of 2008. So many empty retail spaces, and what came after was more boring chain stores and never ending gentrification and condos. You always hear from past generations that things were better in NY before, but a fundamental change happened after 2008.
every crisis allows the largest corporations and the wealthy to consolidate more and more, a ton of the small businesses that failed because of the pandemic will be replaced with more chain stores and the wealthy will keep getting wealthier while everyone else gets poorer
Louis might actually be in the Matrix. Some of the pedestrians made repeat appearances blocks apart e.g. 4:06 & 12:20 . That might explain the state of the city.
That's crazy because the person you are pointing out was walking in separate directions each time. In the first time stamp walking south, in the second time stamp walking north. That sent a chill up my spine
Former new yorker here. Moved back home to Wisconsin during the financial crisis and haven't missed living there, although happy to visit. Glad I didn't have to endure the Bill DiBlasio era of leadership.
I spent 3 years of my childhood in NYC, and have really fond memories of walking around the city in the 90s. One of my favorite places to go to was the 3 star diner on 1st ave. I recently looked it up again and it looks like they’ve permanently closed. It’s so incredibly sad and watching this video is very haunting🤧
When I was a kid I always wanted to visit nyc, eventually I managed to spend a week there and I totally loved the place, would have moved to live there in an instant. Now after seeing the riots and videos like this I have no desire to go back. It really is sad that a place as great as nyc can be totally ruined so quickly.
I’m so old, out of touch and unplugged from social media, I had to look up the term “thirst trap”. Thank you for widening my knowledge. I looked at seventh & 23rd/24th on Maps street view and the contrast between then and now is incredible. When I first visited NY in 1979, I remember walking through some areas that looked exactly like this.
I've been living in NYC for about 20 years, I'm leaving the country and returning back home, I dont recognize this city anymore, my flight is on September 12th and I'm not looking back.
@Cortez Not only that but the tourist attractions in Manhattan are even worse than what's shown here (still closed stores but many more people trying to harass you)
Cities are dystopians they pull you in with hyper consumerism... Only reason I almost moved to Chicago was for concerts but after last year I never want to move to a city ever and I am glad I stayed in Florida.
Louis is filming some important footage to inspire some video game developers so they can launch yet another post- apocalyptic open world game. Good stuff.
