“Damn girl, you are gorgeous… I could eat you for breakfast… Mmmmm” (8:45 am)
I know what you’re thinking, “Ha. Ha-ha. H-a-h-a-h-a.” I’d laugh too if I wasn’t the one listening to this kind of bullshit every morning on my way to work. I live in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn and this happens every morning before 9 AM. I mean, come on, I haven’t even had a coffee yet. Can you gimme a little time before you start describing what you want to do to my vagina while walking your two-year-old daughter to school? Jesus Christ.
It’s considered cool to say, “I miss old New York.” I guess it means higher crime rates made us tougher and now “whitewashed” places like Williamsburg are a Disneyland version of what New York used to be. Well, at a murder a day, I think New York is doing just fine for crime.
If you pay less than a thousand dollars a month in Brooklyn you’re a few blocks away from suped-up streets like Bedford and North 6th, and in New York, a few blocks is a long, long way.
I might feel more guilty if I hadn’t been followed into my building on my birthday, thrown down stairs, stabbed and almost raped (I didn’t know I wasn’t raped until after the rape kit because I passed out during the stabbing – the worst part of the whole thing was I had to take AIDS pills for a month and that meant no drinking – some guy attacks ME and I can’t party as PUNISHMENT – huh?).
Then, a few months later, I was attacked and chased into my building by a cab driver because I refused to pay his made-up fare (he turned off the box before I could see it and wanted $20 to come from Bowery Ballroom which is a ten-dollar fare). He only stopped when my tiny lesbian roommate ran outside yelling that she called the cops. A few days later I was “walked home” (he said he was protecting me from the rain… I had my own umbrella thanks) by a gang member who told me he’d be checking in and would smash the face and / or kill anyone who said or did anything to me. Sorry to look a gift horse in the grill but I don’t want that kind of protection.
By the way, where were any of the white people responsible for the gentrification during these times? If I live in such a gated community can’t one of these WASPs in golf pants call the police? I called the police myself after both attacks and they laughed. What are they supposed to do, find the guy?
You miss old New York while I watch the scars on my face and neck and hope they continue to fade. You miss old New York while the gigantic purple bruise on my leg where the cabby slammed me into his door, stays huge. You miss old New York while I stare at the gigantic scars on my leg where 9 stitches did their best to hold it together. As far as mental damage goes the only serious scar is a short temper when I’m preached to about the salad days.
I don’t feel guilty for being one of those white people responsible for pushing the whores and gangsters out, because in all honesty I wish I was (by the way, the guy who stabbed me was white, the cab driver was Pakistani, and the gangster dude was Puerto Rican).
If I could make actual gentrification happen I’d do it. Most rational human beings would agree the pros outweigh the cons. My laundry would no longer be cheap and a forty would cost more than a dollar but I’d be able to walk home without my hand jammed into my purse.
So, if you see me walking home late at night and you want to talk about this, do yourself a favor and get lost. The next person who mentions how great things used to be is going to get a face full of pepper spray.
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You look great! Keep AWAY FROM ME!!!
04.09.08 at 7:41 am
yay more whining. it’s so refreshing
04.09.08 at 8:20 am
maybe she could try parts of montreal for a change……just not the BAD PARTS
04.09.08 at 8:57 am
who talked you in to moving to SOUTH Williamsburg? dummy.
04.09.08 at 10:22 am
go and live in new zealand, only old people and kiwi’s live there so I guess it’s safe…
04.09.08 at 10:25 am
I’m sure ’south Williamsburg’ here means next to Marcy. Just like my ‘east Williamsburg’ apartment was across the street from the Bushwick pjs.
04.09.08 at 10:44 am
Us New Yorkers miss old NY because it wasn’t filled with out-of-towner whinos like you, sporting potato sacks like it’s in style with your “if I could actually make gentrification happen I would” attitudes. Go back to Columbus Ohio (or wherever the fuck corny city you’re from) and stop acting like you own shit.
04.09.08 at 11:26 am
Ditto to the guy before me. Stay wherever the fuck you’re from. It’s not like you can’t a shrill dickpig in Nebraska.
04.09.08 at 11:36 am
you’re as plain as the day is long, girl. any girl who grew up in NY knows that if she doesn’t button up her dress (even if it’s as ugly and shapeless as that one is), she’s asking for it. gentrification doesn’t help anything, btw, if you dress like a ho and think you’re still at a house party in your sleepy college town.
04.09.08 at 12:13 pm
how many times have you four been stabbed?
04.09.08 at 12:14 pm
Ugh. Now I really miss old New York. You ever have to keep mugging money on you? We didn’t whine back in the early 90’s, we dealt with it. It’s what gave the city it’s edge. If you don’t like it, you can move to boston.
04.09.08 at 12:34 pm
pitty party!!!!
04.09.08 at 12:42 pm
As a man, who loves women of all shapes and sizes and and varying degrees of intellectual capacity I think this woman from Williamsburg is entitled to her opinion- and she’s smart and very well put together despite what the rest of us have to say about it. if anyone is listening to what she’s saying, it’s, Quit treating me and others like me like garbage and pieces of meat, that’s all.
04.09.08 at 12:57 pm
You should move to DC, gentrification is in full swing. The Chocolate city is turning and no longer the murder capital.
04.09.08 at 12:59 pm
Yeah, great. Anonymous hatred and spite for somebody who was injured. You are all spineless, enjoy your mediocre lives.
04.09.08 at 1:07 pm
shes beautiful.
i want to tell her shes beautiful.
04.09.08 at 1:09 pm
This girl gets stabbed and raped and everyone calls her a pussy.
Fuck New York and LA. Big cities are filled with transplants and posers. Stick to your hometown and show it love.
04.09.08 at 1:13 pm
“It seems unrealistic to unbutton your dress halfway and not expect hungry urban primates to try and suckle a bit.”
“there are a lot of things you can do before it gets to the pushed-in-yr-apt stage, joan. first of all, you’re not the picture of some drunk, coked up williamsburg transplant when you’re on your way home”
y”ou’re as plain as the day is long, girl. any girl who grew up in NY knows that if she doesn’t button up her dress (even if it’s as ugly and shapeless as that one is), she’s asking for it. gentrification doesn’t help anything, btw, if you dress like a ho and think you’re still at a house party in your sleepy college town.”
uhhh, what the fuck?
you realize how problematic this sort of ‘”blame-the-victim” mentality is, don’t you? a woman has every right to wear whatever she wants (even dress like ‘a ho’- whatever that means) with out being assaulted.
no one deserves to be almost-raped and stabbed, and she certainly wasn’t asking for it.
04.09.08 at 1:20 pm
of course every woman has the right to wear whatever she wants without being assaulted, but every woman has to grow up and realize that she’s not living in candyland, and that if you wear a shirt unbuttoned to your navel, neanderthals are going to notice. why go out of your way to wear something that attracts attention when you’re too drunk or stoned to walk home without noticing someone coming up behind you in the stairwell? put a sweater in your bag or button that top button, and sober up before getting out yr apt. keys.
04.09.08 at 1:39 pm
She assaults my eyes when I walk by. So I’m going to try and lay the mack down. I think you’ll always be safe in one of those muslim things.
04.09.08 at 1:43 pm
of course, of course, a woman should be aware of her surroundings- esp. living in an unsafe neighborhood. but you dont have any evidence of how she was dressed, or if she was drunk or stoned.
and she still didn’t deserve it.
04.09.08 at 1:45 pm
-you realize how problematic this sort of ‘”blame-the-victim” mentality is, don’t you? a woman has every right to wear whatever she wants (even dress like ‘a ho’- whatever that means) with out being assaulted.
you also have the right to look up the violent crime rates in your neighborhood before moving in. After that if you still want to express your right of wearing whatever you want even if it means increasing your visibility in a high risk area then yes you are asking for it
04.09.08 at 2:00 pm
All girls secretly resent being called gorgeous.
04.09.08 at 2:14 pm
What kind of shitty attitude is this, where you want to keep crime in your city because it makes it “edgy” and you don’t care about your girls getting stabbed? Whatever made old new york cool I’m pretty sure it wasn’t getting mugged on your way home
04.09.08 at 2:26 pm
This whole “women should watch what they wear, or they might get raped” line of thinking strikes me as much more insulting toward males than females because it implies the poor donkeys have absolutely no control over their actions.
04.09.08 at 2:27 pm
I’ve been in Williamsburg since 1990 and, while I certainly enjoyed aspects of its rawness back in ye olde daye, when I hear my old ‘Burg cronies bitching about what it’s become I always think, “Motherfucker, please. There are PLENTY of abjectly shitty neighborhoods in every borough of New York City. If you miss violent lawlessness and urban blight so much, go snap up some hovel in one of them and drink ’til you’re full.” Me, after a hard day’s work I’d much rather walk home through a throng of iPhone-drunk trust-fund twerps than some pack of conscienceless psychopaths.
04.09.08 at 2:33 pm
I can’t believe the ducheness of some of you who are lacking compassion and understanding in this. if that’s too much to ask, at least think of this is a warning to thinking that “its not going to happen to me”, your sister, girlfriend or anyone that you actually care for. it’s easy to blame someone who you don’t know based on a photo, but the truth is that this girl’s story is sad and scary and REAL. and stop judging
04.09.08 at 3:00 pm
nyc 2.0…have you ever seen a woman? this girl is doing NOTHING wrong! a picture from halloween does not count. everyone is “sexy on that day
04.09.08 at 3:08 pm
Well, for all of you who think she was whining… have someone stab you and smash your face in and never speak of it. In fact i bet most of you whine over not getting tickets for shows or your gay rent. So assholes, lead by example, get yourselves stabbed and assaulted ASAP and keep it “ssshhhhh”
xo
04.09.08 at 3:08 pm
FYI to Tinyreena: The “What if it happened to your mother, wife, or daughter?” tactic doesn’t work on people who hate their mother, wife and daughter.
04.09.08 at 3:10 pm
tinyreena, that was Halloween? My mistake, I thought she had maybe fallen in with some of those whores and gangsters she was trying to push out. I take it back, she’s hilarious!
04.09.08 at 3:16 pm
Has it ever…and I’m talking about in world history…been considered sexual harassment when the woman finds the man who’s making unsolicited sexually suggestive comments to be attractive?
04.09.08 at 3:36 pm
just curious…how many of you assholes are really from new york…and not the upper east side. If you’re reading this you are probably one of those trust fund pbr drinking scensters with your only goal to be on cobrasnake or nickydigital. This girl got stabbed and all you care about is that she is “whining”….what is wrong with you all
04.09.08 at 3:39 pm
emily you’re really good looking and it has to suck to get yelled at like that. and fuck these people who say getting stabbed is a-ok i mean there’s no excuse for that kind of behavior. maybe carry some mace or a little .38? i guess they could take it away from you . . .
anywho, you have to admit that being so attractive has also served you quite well in the larger scheme of things. while definitely not the only reason, people pay attention to you in life and on the internet more than they would if you weren’t so cute. 10 years from now when you’ve gotten out of the shit neighborhood and away from the troglodites the uglies will still be trundling from their secured bad neighborhood hovels to their shit jobs. nobody tells them gross sexual shit but nobody gives them the good kind of attention either.
essentially what you’re saying is “it sucks to get fucked with and i deserve a right to go about my life just like anybody else, but i have chosen to move to new york city to get the maximum benefit from my appearance and lifestyle. unfortunately there is a trade-off.”
04.09.08 at 4:06 pm
It’s awful that these things happened to you, but this website is not your LJ.
04.09.08 at 4:25 pm
Excuse me, can someone tell me where Williamsburg is???
04.09.08 at 4:52 pm
You miss Old New York? What are you? 19? So you mean when you were like…10? Younger?
04.09.08 at 5:10 pm
new york blows the cock of awesome.
04.09.08 at 5:24 pm
I truly hope that any guy who feels that a woman who has been assaulted or raped “deserved” or “was asking for it” will someday be punchfucked in the ass by a huge, burly man with spiked brass knuckles. fuckers.
04.09.08 at 5:32 pm
A couple of things. 1. old new york sucked I’ve lived in south Brooklyn for the majority of my life and its a terrible gritty ugly place with the type of pre-fab apartment buildings that remind you of soviet Russia. 2. girls shouldn’t have to fear being shoved into a dark alley and raped. This is fucking Victorian england for chrissake. That said if you do live in a shitty part of town and you are a very pretty girl know that Spanish dudes will holler constantly at you and some of the more ballsy ones are going to try to get to know you. which for them is blatantly letting you know that they would fuck you right there on the sidewalk. I guess the best prevention is to wear a semi-permanent ‘ I’ll fuck your ass up face’. Basically don’t be an easy target.
04.09.08 at 5:50 pm
Rather it isn’t Victorian England.
04.09.08 at 5:51 pm
This is why I’m gay. Women are too specific!
04.09.08 at 6:00 pm
YOU ARE CUTE..DEAL WITH IT AND JUST MOVE THE FUCK ON. IMMA DUDE I DONT SEE HOW A COMPLIMENT IS SUCH A PROBLEM.
04.09.08 at 6:18 pm
the comments section here is INTERESTING (normally they are fucking horrible)
this guy:
“…10 years from now when you’ve gotten out of the shit neighborhood and away from the troglodites the uglies will still be trundling from their secured bad neighborhood hovels to their shit jobs…”
thats some shit. those flicker photos put some perspective on the situation. the “me and my brother in our condo in boulder…” the author dressed up mocking the exact same kind of bitch she’s complaining about now…
i dont know what it all means, but i hope shes reading the comments on this.
i used to rob people and do nasty shit in a bad neighbourhood & now im on the internet listening to ‘belle and sebastian’ – thats progress. they gentrified MY BRAIN!
04.09.08 at 8:01 pm
ew god, cue the marine with the biggest violin in the world…
04.09.08 at 8:03 pm
bandini, marry me.
04.09.08 at 8:14 pm
Probably people don’t miss the crime, but that the crime kept out the twats.
04.09.08 at 8:29 pm
i love crime. it provides justification to carry a concealed weapon. and use it from time to time. old nyc is coming back in style – been waiting so long.
04.09.08 at 9:13 pm
go back home sweetheart.
btw. “old new york” aint about crime and edginess and all that yap. that’s what hipsters think bc they into “scenes”. its about neighborhood culture. something BK LES HK Harlem has a fucking hell of a lot less of. you can get shook down on any block baby. happens ALL the fucking time. Everywhere. You just think you too good for it to happen to your ass.
04.09.08 at 9:53 pm
I just checked horse’s IP and it says Herndon, VA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herndon,_Virginia
04.09.08 at 9:57 pm
Why don’t you IP me Gavin? It says Calabasas, CA–I live in this shithole and not my lov-ed NY because there’s no slack anymore for a musician to do his thing. It’s all for the “creative class” peeps like you and her–and who do you think gets all the waitering jobs, bartending jobs, friends, connections? All these pretty white girls, or male/female minorities?
OK sorry to whine too.
But yeah. That’s where all the poor people go. They live in NY their entire life, and then they’re life gets so shitty there that they move to random ass bumblefuck places like Tampa Florida, Herndon, VA, etc…
A bit of crime sucks but where there is safety, consider it paved for yuppies and developers. It’s the cycle of everything, everywhere, in every city.
People are kinda right. NYC aint nobody’s college campus. And if you’re not going to fuck any of the locals and you’re only going to move in and walk around half naked, well… You’re not giving back to the community. Why not take in a Puerto Rican and read him The New Yorker and take him to art exhibits and indie films?
04.09.08 at 10:34 pm
isn’t williamsburg that old tyme place where people dress up in costumes? yeah, back in the day was totally better then.
04.09.08 at 10:57 pm
& oh one more thing.
Jules….
“Why not take in a Puerto Rican and read him The New Yorker and take him to art exhibits and indie films?”
for all your bloviating about the locals and the past and the rough edges blah blah, the above line really shows that you are a true douche.
i’ll tell you what, i’ll take your sorry ugly musician ass under my wing and teach you things like how to be less of a bitch.
04.09.08 at 11:02 pm
That’s horrible, but what the fuck does being raped have to do with “old new york” (whatever that is)? Unless rape was invented in nyc in 1977 and people go around reminiscing “oh yeah, back in OLD NEW YORK you could rape whoever you wanted! It was great!!!1″
Really, if you didn’t live in new york back in the bad old days, please shut the fuck up about it. And even then, what is your old ass doing on the internet? Looking for porn? Go to show world if you’re so old school!
04.09.08 at 11:29 pm
All I’m sayin is that when my friend moved to Echo Park in LA he used to have all the mexicans gangsters over for barbecues along with his white friends, and it was all good.
Show your bones bitch. Let’s here one of your choruses.
04.10.08 at 12:09 am
WTF anyways. I think I agree with this girl. She’s cute. I love all the beautiful women in NY. Sucks she got stabbed. Old NY did suck. It’s just the grit, dirtyness, low rent, and lawlessness (minus the rapes and stabbings) that is missed I suppose.
I could’ve moved to Bedstuy, but I look 15 so every group of teenagers in every ghetto always tries to step to me.
Bedstuy seemed too fucked up, way east bushwick seemed the same. Plus who can fuck with a 40 minute commute? at 2am?
04.10.08 at 12:21 am
you new yorkers are the biggest wankers,
you all think your shit don’t stick
04.10.08 at 12:39 am
also i am gay, i love penis.
04.10.08 at 1:01 am
one murder a day!? Reno, Fuckin, Nevada has one murder a day, christ.
04.10.08 at 1:03 am
BK born n raised Gav. Go face the corner.
04.10.08 at 1:34 am
There’s nothing women like better than to be coinsidered a food source!!
04.10.08 at 4:30 am
she kinda looks like tracy gold…
04.10.08 at 5:45 am
Rad Rains Says:
04.10.08 at 1:03 am
“one murder a day!? Reno, Fuckin, Nevada has one murder a day, christ.”
According to city-data.com, Reno, NV has averaged 11 murders a year for the past eight years.
http://www.city-data.com/city/Reno-Nevada.html
04.10.08 at 7:28 am
Um, I was hoping people caught on with my sarcasm about calling the writer a bitch pussy simply because in the same paragraph I professed my love of mortar attacks and having my legs blown off so I can save alot of money buying chucks….
04.10.08 at 10:55 am
P.S. Come to think of it, I am also pretty white washed if you consider the fact that I didn’t look like a reject for a live action Final Fantasy movie in my highschool…. Williamsburg would be pretty awesome to live in if I had the money… I settled for Santa Monica….
04.10.08 at 11:01 am
You have a point it being safe-sy way-fsy now a days…but at the same time you have to admit NYC has lost ALOT of its original character/flavor thanks to lame marketing/development gimmicks aimed at tourist and elites. I’ll take scummy 70’s-80’s NYC anyday over your safe idealized brand haven of today.
04.10.08 at 11:06 am
I’m not ugly either: http://www.myspace.com/studentrevolt
04.10.08 at 12:49 pm
Yes you are, Jules.
04.10.08 at 2:08 pm
definitely ugly. and good job with the joe strummer hard-on. glad you don’t pollute NYC with your shit music.
04.10.08 at 5:01 pm
jules, your myspace is a great. your jam “heroin” is lyrically one of the most profound things i’ve heard an adolescent sing.
“heroin i want you so bad / i think i love you”
04.10.08 at 5:06 pm
Damn. NYC, the city that stings. You guys are a bunch of assholes.
04.10.08 at 7:17 pm
Taeil Kim, if you say ‘Iraq’ one more time the fairy god-mother of pain and suffering will come down and light a fire in your asshole as punishment for your relentless attempts to score points from your current situation.
I think the expression is “for shame!”
u not gonna get any medals this way, champ.
04.10.08 at 7:40 pm
I was raised Between Manhatten and Long Island, and when we hang out in the city, or even in williamsburg, people ask us what kind accents do guys have, we never heard and accent like yours before, we reply where from LONgisland, born and raised, close to the border of Queens, Bla,bla,blah. First and second generation, besides me born in ITaly with my only wish of geting my self deported…..
THe Old newyork nostaligia, not a newyork of crime people miss.. It was the charm and orignality of the time and the neighborhoods and the different ethnic groups, when there were still sicilians making the Pizza, and not every one was trying there hardest to be cool, it just was, what it was…
Now of course it’s different, everybody moved to florida where weather is nicer, and because of cost living and the quality of life is better. “I dont miss the weegi man under under qUEENSBIORO BRIDge, or the crack hoars in Alphabit city and Delancey, or leaving a sign written in magic marker, on the car window parked on east 73rd street, saying we do not have a stereo..
What i miss the most is the neighbor hood, and the writING was throughen up on the wall….
AN now it’s a Pretentious nitemare of want to be’s. A lot of these people perpetuate the rude NY stereotype, and as a New Yorker, let’s be honest you know none of the these people are local…
04.10.08 at 9:53 pm
I must apologize for my ill spelling and grammer, i hope the spelling nazis don’t get me!…
04.11.08 at 11:49 am
What the fuck?
04.11.08 at 12:15 pm
I left a fucking 200 wrd post here last night and you guys delete it? Please say you’re kidding. On the off chance you didn’t and it was a technical glitch I GUESS I will try again. here we go…
Old New York is still here. The reason people think it’s gone is there’s so many other New Yorks now they think the old one has been wiped out. Thing is, the old New York is just as big (if not bigger) and gets just as much press as it ever did. It’s about the volume of information these days.
04.11.08 at 12:17 pm
I’m doing this in pieces so you don’t delete it.
It’s like Starbucks. People think it ruined coffee but there wasn’t really coffee culture in America before Starbucks. Sure you could get a cappucino in an Italian neighborhood but ever corner? No way. Sure Bedford Ave has become hipster hell but that street used to be Polack dock workers and Puerto Rican kids running around at midnight.
Old New York is still as huge as it ever was. Want to get your ass kicked? Go to Manitoba’s and tell DMS they’re annoying you. Shit, bump into Lord Ezec and don’t say excuse me. Still the exact same scene it was 15 years ago and your broken nose will spill exactly the same amount of blood.
Old New York is still here. But now there’s New New York, Gay New York, Annoying Hipster New York, Yuppie New York etc. If you “miss” any particular kind of New York there’s PLENTY to go around.
04.11.08 at 12:23 pm
More “Old New York” spots
Go to fucking 14th street East of B and it is like a time capsule. Check out Blarney’s Cove it’s still a SHITHOLE. Actually all of Avenue D is unchanged. Bushwick, Flatbush, South Williamsburg, all just as dangerous as you want.
Nicole duFresne didn’t miss old New York. She got it in the chest. And died.
04.11.08 at 12:25 pm
i think its interesting that im so interesting
04.14.08 at 12:03 am
Coney Island getting shut down. I cried. I hadn’t cried since i was like 10. Old New York has nothing to do with violent crime. Sure you were more likely to get fucked with but I never was, and I lived in a fucked up neighborhood. Bottom Line – why are you here? You drive up the rents that you can’t hardly afford anyway. Developers get a hard-on and build pointless residences and office spaces that won’t ever be occupied. 30+ year neighborhood natives can’t afford to live in their own neighborhoods anymore. You come to NY for its culture and end up living in hoods where everyone looks exactly like you. Plus I can’t walk through my old neighborhood in Brooklyn without some yupster gas-facing like “a black person?”
04.14.08 at 2:06 pm
you mean you move into a fucked up neighborhood and then bitch about it being fucked up and wanting everybody who lives there to move out so a bunch of soft white pussies can move in? Hey fuck you… do what all the girls I knew did in the 80s and early 90s and carry a steak knife in your purse. And if you think mace is going to stop somebody think again. Unless you get that shit right in the eyes it just stings a little and pisses you off. You got to get the army mace in the big raid size bottle if you want to defend yourself with it. Those little keychain joints don’t do shit. But you’re better off with the big steak knife. Pull that out when someone’s following you and they will definitely think twice.
08.22.08 at 3:22 pm
[...] know if this kind of thing still goes on there. Is this urban chaos what people mean when they talk about people missing “the old New [...]
09.03.08 at 1:59 pm
I know– I’ve been followed home, too. The guy broke into my house– I’ve had my ass slapped on the subway, my breast grabbed– this was a few weeks ago. What was old New York like?
My mom lived here then– she’s told me some stories. Believe you me, it was much, much worse.
11.05.08 at 1:59 pm
“Unless you get that shit right in the eyes it just stings a little and pisses you off.”
and you know this because?
11.21.08 at 12:37 pm
MAN UP BITCH.
02.02.09 at 9:13 am
You should probably be a little more aware of your surroundings. I lived in the southside for years and now live in New Orleans. Williamsburg is a fucking cakewalk, it was six years ago too.
Oh, and whoever talked shit about Columbus, OH is silly, their crime rate is much higher than NY’s has been for years.
If you’re trying to judge a city’s tough factor by its crime rate then NY ranks up there with Burlington, VT.
02.03.09 at 5:04 pm
Really great post, well written, concise and comprehensive. Thank you.
02.27.09 at 10:04 pm
yo everyone needs to shut up…
this girl was assualted, thats totally horrible. girls get called out all the time on the street in the city– most girls know how to deal in tha city.
but seriously NYC is the best city in the world. stop trying to be badasses and complainers.
its a city…………………………………………..
04.15.09 at 1:08 pm
i feel like “we just manned up and dealt with it” most likely means “i never got fucked with and have zero compassion.”
Also, i love the anti-white people sentiment. Because black people have lived in the shitty parts of New York since it’s inception and thus have some kind of unfuckwithable dominion over them. It’s the most diverse city in the most diverse country in the world (i mean, more or less) you fucking cretins. Things have changed, are changing and will continue to change.
I get that you’re frustrated that the place you fondly remember (for whatever reason) is changing, but to channel that frustration into blaming a girl for almost getting raped makes you sound retarded.
06.07.09 at 9:02 pm
mace is stingingly annoying
06.17.09 at 3:37 am
I’m not saying she should get raped, that’s kind of luck of the draw in any city , I have fought off 3 rape attempts in various cities. But by the same token, if she cant stand the heat she should get out of the kitchen. Taxi drivers being assholes is nothing new,people get catcalled ALL THE F’N TIME in NYC if she doesn’t like it now she should wait 10 years until the catcalls stop, she can see how her overheated vanity fares then. And no I dont want this self pitying jerk to gentrify south williamsburg, thank you very much – where I have lived for 15 years without a problem. She should definitely GO HOME because the same way she cant deal with men on the street I dont like seeing entitled whiny self pitying stank eye creeps on my morning commute.
02.13.10 at 2:48 am
And yeah, actually, flashing the BLACK BRA in South Williamsburg at 9 am is an invitation to attention in that neighborhood. All she needs to do is button up one tiny button and her precious white ears wouldn’t have to be defiled by the imprecations of evil brown men. Heers a shocking insight- Whiny needs to adjust to the mores of the neighborhood she chose to move into , rather than expecting to do whatever she pleases wherever she pleases. Its called being a grownup in a multicultural multiclass multicultured city. Sheesh.
02.13.10 at 2:52 am
is she toms cruises wife?
10.02.10 at 4:39 pm
I’m late on this article, but this is really coll and refreshing. I was raised in a recently “gentrified” neighborhood in Boston and when I go back to my hometown, I can’t help but think that the place seems a lot more fun and prosperous..maybe not s “authentic’, but fuck authenticty, when you have the option of raising a family without worrying you kid will adopt some fucked up psychological issues just by stepping foot outdoors for longer than 30 minutes
03.28.11 at 6:28 pm
i lived in bedstuy brooklyn, the real hood. i would have loveeed to be a foot in williamsburg..but when i went home at night i was fully strapped with a knife and pepperspray.. if you grab me i will fight your ass on the floor,skank you and walk off.. i think i adjusted to new york pretty well that month
04.01.11 at 3:44 pm
if u hate new york so much then leave, or moveto upper west side
04.01.11 at 3:45 pm
‘if you grab me i will fight your ass on the floor,skank you and walk off.. ”
The term is “shank,” as any ex-con would know. How do you “skank” someone—by attacking them with your vagina?
04.01.11 at 5:05 pm