{"id":535862,"date":"2023-01-06T02:30:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T23:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dont-bet-against-new-york-he-says-hopefully\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T02:30:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T23:30:19","slug":"dont-bet-against-new-york-he-says-hopefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dont-bet-against-new-york-he-says-hopefully\/","title":{"rendered":"#Don&#8217;t bet against New York (he says hopefully)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4e2751d5a8b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4e2751d5a8b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dont-bet-against-new-york-he-says-hopefully\/#%E2%80%9CDont_bet_against_New_York_he_says_hopefully%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Don&#8217;t bet against New York (he says hopefully)&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dont-bet-against-new-york-he-says-hopefully\/#Adam_Schiff_enemy_of_freedom\" >Adam Schiff, enemy of freedom<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CDont_bet_against_New_York_he_says_hopefully%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Don&#8217;t bet against New York (he says hopefully)&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n            <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t bet against New York.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any phrase I\u2019ve said more often in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever friends come through town they list their worries to me. They tell me that they are amazed at the number of homeless people on our streets. I agree. They tell me that they are shocked at the fact you can see drug addicts shooting up almost anywhere in town. I agree. Some friends came through town with their young children this week. Wherever we walked \u2014 even in Central Park \u2014 there was the reek of marijuana. \u201cWhat is that smell,\u201d said the youngest, aged six. \u201cThe smell of a wasted day\u201d I told him.<\/p>\n<p>When you consider such things you do wonder whether New Yorkers haven\u2019t become the proverbial frog in the boiling pot. When people visit who haven\u2019t been to the city in a few years they always remark on the decline.<\/p>\n<p>And the stats are on the same side as their observations. When he was running for mayor, Eric Adams promised to be a law and order candidate. Many of the people who voted for him did so because he had been in the NYPD himself and they believed him. Of course you can\u2019t compare figures with the COVID years because those were strange and unusual times. But just compare Mayor Adams\u2019 record in the past year with the figures in pre-COVID times. Compare his record with that of De Blasio, say.<\/p>\n<p>Up to November last year there were 379 homicides in New York. Mayor Adams is keen to say that homicides were down 12% on the year before. More important is that they are 19% higher than in 2019 when de Blasio was mayor. It\u2019s the same with shootings. Down from the previous year, sure, but almost 50% higher than in 2019. In other words, it isn\u2019t a figment of the imagination of New Yorkers or visitors to this city that New York is more unsafe than it used to be.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/bet-new-york-03.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A homeless person sleeps in Penn Station\" class=\"wp-image-25255809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/bet-new-york-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/bet-new-york-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/bet-new-york-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Murray notes that people revisiting the city have been quick to note its decline. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We\u2019ve also had to get used to the love-boming \/ hate-bombing of Governor Hochul.<\/p>\n<p>It is only five months since she said that Republicans should \u201cjust jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong.\u201d As it h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens, a lot of New Yorkers didn\u2019t wait for this command from the governor. Plenty of them had already taken note of the tax hikes, lawlessness and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> mismanagement of the city as reason enough to leave. They didn\u2019t need the added bonus of the Governor actually instructing them to \u201cGet out of town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now Hochul is doing the classic \u201cI love you. I hate you\u201d more usually observed in a moody teenager. This week she acknowledged that people have been fleeing New York and said that New York must \u201creverse the trend of people leaving our state.\u201d Er, well, yes. Especially since many of the people that Hochul and company have pushed out are the ones who paid a disproportionate amount of the tax burden. It has been reported that around 10% of New Yorkers earning over $750K a year left the city in 2020. The number is much higher now. And that has consequences, leaving the state with a much reduced tax-yield at a time when it needs the money the most.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/bet-new-york-01.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"man smoking marijuana\" class=\"wp-image-25255802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/bet-new-york-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/bet-new-york-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/bet-new-york-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Visitors and New Yorkers alike see people openly using drugs on the streets. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Eduardo Munoz\/REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After all, people who can\u00b4t afford to move around don\u2019t. It is people those can afford to move \u2014 even to the dreaded Florida \u2014 who are the ones who do leave.<\/p>\n<p>I meet some of these people on my <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>s. In Florida over New Year I met some of those who have left this city and are utterly evangelical about their new place of residence. The weather is great, they say. They have good governance, and a much lower tax-burden. What\u2019s not to like? In fact, as a relatively recent New Yorker I become annoyed with these people. I have heard the same story from people in Tennessee, New Hampshire, Texas, and a number of other states across the country. <\/p>\n<p>All these people have the same reasons for leaving New York. And they recite them to me in turn, as though trying to convert me to their point of view. Some of them practically bring out the real estate catalogues.<\/p>\n<p>Still, my response is always the same. \u201cDon\u2019t bet against New York.\u201d Sure the city is horribly run at the present. Certainly there are lots of problems. But there always were, and they are still massively outweighed by the benefits.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/bet-new-york-04.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"dirty subway platform\" class=\"wp-image-25255813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/bet-new-york-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/bet-new-york-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/bet-new-york-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>People are leaving New York City in droves for a multitude of reasons. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The world doesn\u2019t seriously want to come to Miami, Austin or Nashville as it wants to come to New York. The returning tourists I mentioned last week are a reminder of that fact. Even in December and January people want to come to New York. Why? For the reasons they always have \u2014 for the same reason I have \u2014 because it is a center of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Sure there are a lot of reasons to be down about the city, but there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic about it too. It\u2019s a world hub, a city of genuine vibrancy, real energy \u2014 actual opportunity. If Hochul, Adams and co. could actually focus on that and work on the negatives we could be really be back in business again.<\/p>\n<p>We will be someday. But why not make it sooner rather than later, yes?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Adam_Schiff_enemy_of_freedom\"><\/span><strong>Adam Schiff, enemy of freedom<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Rep Adam Schiff recently said he wouldn\u2019t mind running to replace Diane Feinstein if she steps down from the Senate in 2024. But I\u2019m not so sure if the powers of the Senate will prove enough for Schiff.<\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> files reveal that Schiff\u2019s office made specific asks that Twitter suspend the accounts of journalists Schiff disagreed with. The demands were so extreme that even woke Twitter said that it wasn\u2019t feasible and said \u201cwe won\u2019t do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there\u00b4s some tinpot dictatorship where Schiff can try to get himself appointed King? Or chief censor at any rate? It\u00b4d be a much better fit for a man who clearly doesn\u2019t understand how a free press in a free country works.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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