Wasn't New York City More Grimey In The 80s & 90s In Constrast To Now

[ksteezy]

Is my first lease out of 4 new cars I've owned....obviously I lease by choice because I get tired of the same car after 3 years...

Lmao @ you claiming a lease to be remotely similar to a zip car

 

[ninjahood]

 

I never said you'll have a problem without it, in NYC you have huge train network so yes you'll get around...however people who don't drive also go to extreme to defend this claim...a car that's within your means is not a burden, it can be a messessity and a luxury to have one and it gives you far more options than a line of trains can...like I said if you are content staying within the City limits, you can ride a bike all through manhattan...if you can afford to live in the heart of manhattan where parking TRULY is a burden then I'm sure your last concern is an extra 300$ a month on a parking garage or a car insurance...but hey everyone is entitled to live their life as they see fit, but saying a car is a burden is a HUGE REACH if you are smart.

A car can be a burden if

A. You buy a used lemon sucking your pockets dry.

B . You live passed your means and finance a ridiculous luxury car you can't afford.

Only time I are a car being a burden...all this driving in the city sucks, parking sucks, I get tickets, blah blah...is just BS...I've owned cars for over 10 years of my life and lived in NY, drive all over the city and 90% of the time have no issues with parking.

at "it can be a messessity and a luxury". Those 2 things are similar to you?

Again, you're going to extremes to make a point. You're "pro-car". Ninja is "anti-car".

I have both and the reality is, for the use we get out of it, driving to Jersey or whatever, it's not even worth it. We don't go to Philly. Anything else we can hop a plane.

I don't know what parking in Manhattan you think you're getting for $300.

You missed my point entirely as well. Nowhere did I suggest the burden was financial. Yet you went that way. If she didn't need her car for work 2 days a week, we wouldn't have one.

I have a Hertz local location 2 blocks away from me and Avis/Enterprise and a few cheap local joints are within a mile. I can rent NO problem if I needed to.

not in da slightest..i actually know more about cars then da typical cat out here..da problem is people have these sensationalized views on owning

a car in NYC and i know like you know phillip that its FAR FROM da case...

steezy thinks im playing down owning a car because i prefer da trains... c'mon what kinda chump you take me as? i love

cars,and i love to drive. da trains is what they are, crowded

and for da common working dude..but da magic about em is they aren't glamorous...they just WORK, and thats all you can ever ask for in mass transit,

is for it to just WORK, so people like steezy can have detached opinions about it that takes em for granted to da point that he doesn't realizes that if

everyone in NYC owned a car his life would be a LIVING HELL going any and everywhere.

 

[ksteezy]

Currently driving from one job to another...making a little extra paper, something that would be impossible, had I followed your formula of a car being a burden...lmao

1 hour public commute reduced to 10
Minutes WITH traffic.... even got time to stop by DD for my coworker...lol

 

[ninjahood]

Insurance rates living in the city are ridiculous. That's the only thing holding me back right now.

and i commented on this..i know MAD DUDES who pay their relatives to have their cars registered in florida or PA

so they can cut their insurance cost down.

 

[ninjahood]

 

I'm sayin tho...dudes who don't drive in NY be like...

Preppin my winter gear



Meanwhile I can get away with just a leather all winter....ya can keep taking pride in public transport, that ***** sucks and can't EVER beat a car

 Winter is one of my favorite seasons in New York ...all the broke, aspiring fashionheads have to SPEND MONEY on REAL winter gear. 

I love strolling around the city in my warm coats, enjoying all the winter activities. 


I just can't spend my whole life in a car, I can't do it. You miss so much of the city driving around. Art, people, fashion, spontaneous phenomenons at parks and meeting places.

im all of this, as much as i love to drive, i also love to walk around and enjoy my city in all 4 seasons.

and if there's anything i would rather avoid is shoveling out your car after a winter storm...

naw...this isn't da wave b.

i've had to do it for my mom's car a couple of times when i absolutely NEEDED to go to queens for some ****, other then that? im good.

 

[ninjahood]

 

Have you ever had to shovel a car out of it's space? Cool little workout but I'd rather be doing something else.

Again, you're missing so much here. I don't have a garage in my crib. So it's either pay like $600-700 a month or park on the street.

I refuse to pay that for parking and so does she. That money is better spent elsewhere.

The distance from where we may park around my apt. is the same as the distance to the subway. I live in a nice neighborhood. People got money. But everyone still parks on the street. So it's a dogfight.

Still gotta do that alternate side of the street ****. In the cold. In the snow.

So it has it's disadvantages. And it's not as convenient as you think for EVERYONE. Again, if it works for you, cool.

Well that's understandable and has been brought up plenty of times....and if you read what I've written I completely understand that if you live in NYC and feel a car is an inconvenience, noone can argue that...this however excludes, north of 90th street...plenty of parking there...and definitely excludes the heights...lol

who lied to you b? ask anyone that clubs or lives in da heights da difficulty to find parking in da evening..its IMPOSSIBLE, and now that da street cleaning

laws only apply once a week its even WORSE.

 

[Peep Game]

Is my first lease out of 4 new cars I've owned....obviously I lease by choice because I get tired of the same car after 3 years...

Lmao @ you claiming a lease to be remotely similar to a zip car

Every 3 years? I remember another thread with you discussing that (which probably turned into a 20+ page cesspool like this one), but man, 3 years ain't long at all

 

[illphillip]

Is my first lease out of 4 new cars I've owned....obviously I lease by choice because I get tired of the same car after 3 years...

You need to get on that different car every month flow then....

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Not to mention Mustangs, Caddys, Volvos, convertibles. Whatever.

That's when I'm not in this. I mean....how can you not have a boat? Presents so many more options. Not a burden at all. 70% of the world is water. Parking is a breeze

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[ksteezy]

Shoveling your car is an awesome work out.

Lettuce be cereal tho...how many times do you really shovel a year?...buncha punks!...lol

Btw get yourself a Jeep and won't have to lift a shovel in your life

 

[ninjahood]

 

I am still puzzled as how a car can be a burden, unless you get financially strapped at some point.

Street cleaning in the morning, theft, bumper scars, parking in your neighborhood (ON YOUR OWN BLOCK), congested traffic, sitting in traffic, finding parking in the city $30+ dollars. Tunnels, gas station drama, pedestrians etc...

It's not about being strapped for cash, New York City has a public transportation system that WORKS. Why not take advantage of it? It's cheaper and more entertaining than being cramped in a car for hours. When you ride can take minutes.

this.

ksteezy wouldn't last a month with his car in my hood...i'd put anything on it.

 

[ksteezy]

Been thinking bout copping a boat...we can sail the Hudson together and pull up to La Marina on some baller ***** in the summer Phillip

 

[illphillip]

I'm not getting in your pedal/row boat homie.

 

[ksteezy]

this.

ksteezy wouldn't last a month with his car in my hood...i'd put anything on it.

What 184th and Audubon?...not THAT serious?...hit up Mia often and NEVER have trouble parking

 

[ninjahood]

 

Street cleaning in the morning, theft, bumper scars, parking in your neighborhood (ON YOUR OWN BLOCK), congested traffic, sitting in traffic, finding parking in the city $30+ dollars. Tunnels, gas station drama, pedestrians etc...

It's not about being strapped for cash, New York City has a public transportation system that WORKS. Why not take advantage of it? It's cheaper and more entertaining than being cramped in a car for hours. When you ride can take minutes.

Lies....besides traffic I have none of those issues...waiting for parking is equivalent to waiting for a delayed train...

 

[ninjahood]

 

 

Street cleaning in the morning, theft, bumper scars, parking in your neighborhood (ON YOUR OWN BLOCK), congested traffic, sitting in traffic, finding parking in the city $30+ dollars. Tunnels, gas station drama, pedestrians etc...

It's not about being strapped for cash, New York City has a public transportation system that WORKS. Why not take advantage of it? It's cheaper and more entertaining than being cramped in a car for hours. When you ride can take minutes.

waiting for parking is equivalent to waiting for a delayed train..

I don't know where you live, but this is ******g ridiculous to me

Hell no. I've never waited for a train for 45 min-1 hour. Are you waiting for a locomotive somewhere?

I already said it's taken that long to find a spot in our neighborhood.

You out here talking crazy

this. steezy wouldn't find a parking spot in da heights after 7-8pm in any sort of "delayed train time" to save his life..let's not even get to da 10pm and on time.

 

[mez 0ne]

I owned my car while living on 127th, had no issues.

 

[ksteezy]

Lmaoooooo bro...I deal with the hassles of parking every year during baseball season at my inlaws crib...Your hood midas well be an open parking lot with unlimited spaces compared to 157th and Gerard fam...it's so bad I used to sell my parking space to dudes coming to watch the game...

 

[ksteezy]

this. steezy wouldn't find a parking spot in da heights after 7-8pm in any sort of "delayed train time" to save his life..let's not even get to da 10pm and on time.

Challenge accepted...will record, give me a street and I'll record how long before I find a space..

 

[paulprince3730]

Loss of culture?


What culture is lost?


The crime? The drug use? The drug sales? The problems and issues it all creates


Obviously not everyone is like that but come on.


What culture is being lost

THIS


People are trying to justify why there aren't rich or can't afford to live in these neighborhoods. Truth is there was an excuse 50 years ago, even 30 years ago. TODAY with the wealth of FREE technology and education there is no excuse for the deterioration for prime real-estate.


People who renovate these areas, purchase them at CHEAP prices, and the appeal isn't in the property it's in the PEOPLE who NOW live in the property. Desirable individuals, from a far. It kills me how dudes will blow thousands or sneakers, gadgets, jewelry, rims, and other stuff but won't save for PROPERTY, defend the property with their own lives and create a safe environment for THEIR own people.


White flight, is a state of mind ...stop chasing those type of white people's ideologies of success. It's the reason they "explored" because they were bored with looking at each other all day. They got a taste of Native American Pocahontas yambs and were floating over here wearing stupid wigs in BOATLOADS, while wanting NOTHING to do with the people who inhabit the land....just the money and yambs.


That's the problem in a nutshell, everybody want to be in white people face all the time, get out their face if they don't want you around. Those aren't the type of white people you want in your life anyway.


The value of your neighborhood begins with YOU, stop killing your own people, stop being scared of them, treat your neighborhood with pride, guard it with your life, SPEND MONEY IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY (New Yorkers: the guy selling stuff merchandise on the corner, candles, sculptures, art, books etc).

This "elite" class of white people who are demonized for getting money, wouldn't even HAVE anything to define "success" or social class by if people just get out of their face and do their own thing. Think outside the box revolutionize the current way we define wealth and class. 


But truth is most people in these communities are lazy and stupid, too lazy to even THINK ...they'd rather complain about anyone who has a smile on their face and the money to shut them up and move them out.


That's the truth.


Gentrification = 



,,,cats forgetting Native Americas gentrified America before it was America within their own classes of people, so did Africans, and so did Native South Americans.




Stop being weak and stupid...period.



 

Washington Heights is next......

Ninjahood and all his sneakers gonna be out on the streets like: "what happened to Da Heights b?"

You foolin, your wife is white right? Didn't she have you makin a fool of yourself instead of having your back when those dudes were callin you a gorilla? Aren't you part of the problem you're talking about? And how did native Americans gentrify the new world???? You wildin but you ain't nick cannon

 

[ninjahood]

Is not that serious ninja

parking in the heights is not equivalent to hunting down unicorns like you making it seem...guys don't be fooled

oh yeah? i challenge you go to la marina one night BY CAR and look for parking..see how long its gonna take for you to get inside, there's a REASON

they have valet parking right on site, or else everyone would WALK there (alot of people already do)

go to da heights at 10pm and look for parking, just to get some dutches or someting...you not finding it, period.

now imagine someone doing that EVERY NIGHT...there's a reason people in NY say " yo i ain't taking you, i JUST FOUND parking, i aint moving it!"

 

[ksteezy]

Will do....if I find parking within a 2-3 block radius you render your NT login password.

 

[ninjahood]

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Parking in Wash Heights has never been an issue for me and I spend a good time out there on my free days....I love the heights....it doesn't compete with Yankee Stadium traffic I'm sure...

come park at night and see whats good, bet you wont find any, thats for sure.

ask anyone about parking in mahattan in a residential spot at night, its impossible.

there's like 3-4 garages in da heights within a 10 block radius and they're all making money because there is no parking

at night..when people get frustrated they just leave it in da lot and pay da joint.

 

[knowledgebones72]

this. steezy wouldn't find a parking spot in da heights after 7-8pm in any sort of "delayed train time" to save his life..let's not even get to da 10pm and on time.

Challenge accepted...will record, give me a street and I'll record how long before I find a space..

That could be a cool webseries. "K Steezy Parks Anywhere in NYC"

You are given a random address, and on the way you pick up some internet rapper/NT level celebrity like someone they'd mention in Complex and Nah Right but nowhere else.

Ya'll get in the car, and chop it up while you get there and try to find somewhere to park.

Ya'll can talk about the person's career, your own life, NYC living, and most of all the best ways to get around and whether the best route is driving or subway or whatever.

And you don't know what the address actually is, but when you get there it's some interesting thing that ya'll can either do or just decide not to do and hang out on the street nearby.

Even though it's just a young people version of "Comedians in Cars getting Coffee."

By the way I really do think the dude KSteezy could have some sort of Webseries somehow the dude knows how to be internet popular and seems to know how to interact with people and appears very hip no homer.

 

[ninjahood]

And I never been one to cry about a few bumper scratches...a car is a machine, not a piece of glass.

yea ITTTTTE...

you think thats what a owner of a brand new white BMW is gonna smile to when you tell him that as your hitting his bumper

as your coming out of a parallel parked spot in da heights or anywhere else in NYC?

my mother just had her side view mirror broken AGAIN, can't do nothing about it but fix it. when you park on da street you got no choice

but to suck it up.

 

[ksteezy]

come park at night and see whats good, bet you wont find any, thats for sure.

ask anyone about parking in mahattan in a residential spot at night, its impossible.

there's like 3-4 garages in da heights within a 10 block radius and they're all making money because there is no parking

at night..when people get frustrated they just leave it in da lot and pay da joint.

Bro you donot live in the city!...parking regulations in the heights are exactly like the ones in the Bronx...only difference is certain areas are over stocked with restaurant/lounge/club type of spots, reason why is a bit more of a challenge, no different than attempting to park up the block from Yankee stadium during baseball season....you talking as if you live in the heart of Times Square with all sorts of towing zones and red no Parking anytime signs..lmao