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New Yorkers Won’t Stop Complaining About Dogs

New Yorkers Won’t Stop Complaining About Dogs

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This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. “Dogs are so numerous in New York, indeed, that they have already become a nuisance,” the journalist Charles Dawson Shanly wrote in The Atlantic in 1872. He was annoyed by “all the barking … and there is a good deal of it.” Other New Yorkers feared that the dogs roaming the streets were “deleterious to health” (a reasonable concern, given the risk of rabies at the time). Eventually, Shanly wrote, anxieties escalated to the point that “weakminded people began to look upon Ponto’s kennel in the back yard as a very Pandora’s box of maladies too numerous and appalling to be contemplated without terror.” Some 150 years later, the city’s canine population is rabies free, and you’re unlikely to see any feral dogs running around. But New Yorkers haven’t stopped complaining. “I’m sorry, dog lovers. There are too many of you,” Chloë Sevigny told Rolling Stone in January. “Why Does Everyone …

New Yorkers Silently Worrying Over Ramifications Of Trump Ruling

New Yorkers Silently Worrying Over Ramifications Of Trump Ruling

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Authored by Janice Hisle and Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images) Monday’s dramatic bond reduction for former President Donald Trump did nothing to dissipate the dark cloud that his civil-fraud case has cast over New York business deals. Although investors won’t publicly admit it, the case is having a chilling effect, said Charles Trzcinka, professor of finance at Indiana University-Bloomington. “If you talk to people in this market, they are very, very upset … and these are people who are neutral or even opposed to Trump,” Mr. Trzcinka told The Epoch Times. “They’re just angry about it.” In his role at the university, Mr. Trzcinka said he places students in the corporate lending market in New York, making him aware of trends in that sphere. An appeals court’s decision to slash the bond by about 60 percent, reducing it to $175 million, still left a massive penalty intact while President Trump continues a legal challenge of Justice Arthur Engoron’s ruling. Judge Engoron ruled that President Trump …

Half of New Yorkers ready to abandon the city over the next 5 years

Half of New Yorkers ready to abandon the city over the next 5 years

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New York City seen through a hole in metal wire fence ” data-image-caption=”New York City Credit: Matteo Catanese/unsplash.com ” data-medium-file=”https://i2.wp.com/openthewordblog.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/new-york-city-matteo-catanese-unsplash.jpg?w=500&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i2.wp.com/openthewordblog.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/new-york-city-matteo-catanese-unsplash.jpg?w=500&ssl=1″ width=”500″ height=”333″ fifu-data-src=”https://i2.wp.com/openthewordblog.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/new-york-city-matteo-catanese-unsplash.jpg?w=500&ssl=1″ alt=”New York City seen through a hole in metal wire fence” class=”wp-image-66784″ srcset=”https://i2.wp.com/openthewordblog.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/new-york-city-matteo-catanese-unsplash.jpg?w=500&ssl=1 500w, https://openthewordblog.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/new-york-city-matteo-catanese-unsplash.jpg?w=1000 1000w, https://openthewordblog.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/new-york-city-matteo-catanese-unsplash.jpg?w=768 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px”/>New York City Credit: Matteo Catanese/unsplash.com A recent survey of New Yorkers by The Citizens Budget Commission found that half of the city’s residents are planning to leave the city over the next five years, the New York Post reports. One of the major reasons that people are ready to pack their bags is because many no longer feel safe in the city, due largely to politicians and other elected officials who have gone soft on crime. When asked about the safety of the communities, only 37% stated that it was good or excellent. Five years ago, nearly 60% felt their communities were safe. Only half of those surveyed said they felt that it was safe to use the city’s subway system during the day. When asked the same question …

New Yorkers rail against luxury tower blocking Empire State Building: ‘The mighty dollar rules the sky’ | New York

New Yorkers rail against luxury tower blocking Empire State Building: ‘The mighty dollar rules the sky’ | New York

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Tom Clark’s Lower East Side apartment comes with a prime view of the Empire State Building. “I can see it from my couch,” he said. Well, he used to be able to catch a glance – before an ultra-thin luxury tower dubbed 262 Fifth Avenue came along. Now the 860ft residential tower, which is still under construction, blocks the Empire State Building from most vantage points south of 28th street. Many New Yorkers (and tourists) can no longer catch a glimpse of the celebrated landmark, all because of some poorly placed – and incredibly expensive – condos. “It really pisses me off,” Clark said while standing in the plaza in front of the Flatiron Building on Fifth Avenue, a few blocks south of the dueling skyscrapers. “The whole New York skyline has been destroyed. When I moved here I was thrilled with it, and now it’s just getting disgusting. These new buildings have no identity, no design to them. We’ve lost the character of New York, and it breaks my heart.” Over 4 million people …

Digested week: New Yorkers mourn death of Flaco, America’s first ‘celebrity owl’ | Emma Brockes

Digested week: New Yorkers mourn death of Flaco, America’s first ‘celebrity owl’ | Emma Brockes

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Monday The death of Flaco the owl, erstwhile symbol of New York, beloved avian icon, and brief good news item in a sea of grim tidings, continues to reverberate two days after he suffered the most urban of fates and flew into the side of a building on the city’s Upper West Side. He was found late on Friday night, dead on the sidewalk, a few blocks from Central Park. New York, a sentimental town, has not under-reacted to this event. In the year since escaping from Central Park Zoo after a random act of vandalism breached his cage, Flaco, who was 13, had what seemed to many to be the quintessential New York career, rising from his small-time origins in the zoo enclosure to become America’s first “celebrity owl”. In keeping with every ascent up that particular greasy pole, Flaco’s journey entailed learning to identify and kill rats, charm observers, and outfox those who would put him back in his pen. And like all homegrown celebrities, his death made the front page of the …

We’re not stupid or more racist: “Daily Show’s” Dulcé Sloan says New Yorkers get Southerners wrong

We’re not stupid or more racist: “Daily Show’s” Dulcé Sloan says New Yorkers get Southerners wrong

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You know Dulcé Sloan from “The Daily Show,” where she delivers witty commentary from the desk as a correspondent and plays hilarious characters like Black Karen. You can also catch her on Fox’s animated series “The Great North,” where she voices the beloved character of Honeybee. When I talked to Sloan recently about New York (where the “The Daily Show” is based), she said, “It’s cold, and I hate it!” But in all seriousness, one thing Sloan shared is why she thinks America’s idea of racism is incorrect. “New York was one of the [most] racist places I’ve ever lived in my life,” Sloan said when I asked her about the biggest misconceptions about the South. Sloan, who grew up in Atlanta, says there’s an idea that “we’re stupid and that Southern Black people are more docile than Northern Black people. That we are somehow lesser, that we’re more racist. There’s so many things.” Sloan’s new memoir “Hello, Friends!: Stories of Dating, Destiny, and Day Jobs” tells her story, including the uncountable amount of jobs she had before …