R50/53 Damn Squeegee people!
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Originally Posted by Jersey_Bill
Rudy was well on his way to being one of the least successful mayors in NYC history before 9/11 - and no matter what you think of his leadership after that time, there were plenty of challenges to it before. My favorite campaign of his was his crusade to have an exhibition at a Brooklyn art museum shut down because he disagreed with the incendiary art being exhibited there. Highly intolerant episode.
His success in reducing crime is wildly overstated. There was a general decline in criminal activity across the nation during the period of his mayorality - due primarily to the thriving economy in the 1990s and the record low rates of unemployment, expecially at lower ends of employment scale. He took unique credit for this but it was a widespread thing. In NYC, his era brought many more complaints of police abuse and mistreatment - and a comensurate decline in the tolerance that the city always prided itself in. Have an open can of beer on a public sidewalk - you were going to jail (I have friends who faced that).
Unfortunately his legacy is having beaten out of New York so much of what made the city a special place. I work in Times Square - and it used to be wonderfully edgy where there was just enough danger to be exciting and enough illicit opportunities to titilate visitors - even if you never went to the adult entertainment. Now, it is wall-to-wall Disney, McDonalds, shoe stores and Red Lobsters. In effect, it has become a mirror of suburban America and no longer a one-of-a-kind place.
The squeegee guys were a pain but were part of the mosaic of the city that gave you wonderful cocktail hour talk. I miss them. [Emphasis added.]
Bill
His success in reducing crime is wildly overstated. There was a general decline in criminal activity across the nation during the period of his mayorality - due primarily to the thriving economy in the 1990s and the record low rates of unemployment, expecially at lower ends of employment scale. He took unique credit for this but it was a widespread thing. In NYC, his era brought many more complaints of police abuse and mistreatment - and a comensurate decline in the tolerance that the city always prided itself in. Have an open can of beer on a public sidewalk - you were going to jail (I have friends who faced that).
Unfortunately his legacy is having beaten out of New York so much of what made the city a special place. I work in Times Square - and it used to be wonderfully edgy where there was just enough danger to be exciting and enough illicit opportunities to titilate visitors - even if you never went to the adult entertainment. Now, it is wall-to-wall Disney, McDonalds, shoe stores and Red Lobsters. In effect, it has become a mirror of suburban America and no longer a one-of-a-kind place.
The squeegee guys were a pain but were part of the mosaic of the city that gave you wonderful cocktail hour talk. I miss them. [Emphasis added.]
Bill
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From: Long Beach, CA
Big Apples and...
...no, not Oranges.
The Rolling Stones' GREAT song ("Shattered") says it best (from the late '70's). ON the one hand, "Love and hope and sex and dreams are still surviving on the street," and on the other: "Go ahead, bite the big apple, don't mind the maggots, huh."
Check out the song history and lyrics at:
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=593
A product of NYC, "pre-Giulliani." I guess most folks don't want bugs and parasites in their food, and had had enough when they voted him in?
Originally Posted by RIVAL
oh, in many ways gulliani did good for the city. ... only problem was he removed alot of what made the city great.
... if you speak to anyone that has grown up in nyc and remember the city before that guy they will tell you the city had so much life in it. ... he really stole the life out of this place...
... if you speak to anyone that has grown up in nyc and remember the city before that guy they will tell you the city had so much life in it. ... he really stole the life out of this place...
Check out the song history and lyrics at:
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=593
A product of NYC, "pre-Giulliani." I guess most folks don't want bugs and parasites in their food, and had had enough when they voted him in?
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Oh great...
...something else to worry about in our progressive community (i.e. race to grow faster into a city).
All we have now is the occassional beggar at the stoplight. The ones smoking really tic me off.
Mexico has been doing this forever. Bad idea to have a clean car, they splash the recycled puddle water on the windshield and then ask.
Someone must have a Tesla Coil that would work.
All we have now is the occassional beggar at the stoplight. The ones smoking really tic me off.
Mexico has been doing this forever. Bad idea to have a clean car, they splash the recycled puddle water on the windshield and then ask.
Someone must have a Tesla Coil that would work.
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Originally Posted by Gromit801
How about a paintball gun filled with frozen paintballs?
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I've never run into any squeegee people as of yet....I'm a very sheltered person. Seriously though, why not roll down the window and give the guy a blast from a spray bottle of windex in return for his "thoughtfulness".
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