To be fair I have never been to NYC. But I have been to Paris, Rome, and Barcelona. I found Paris reasonably clean, but Rome and Barcelona to be absolutely filthy. Everything had a black tinge to it. I certainly wasn’t impressed with Barcelona when I saw an open drain of semi treated sewage running to the ocean. I can’t understand why everyone raves about the place. I imagine NY would be the same.
Bleecker Street — I saw a shadow touch a shadow’s hand (New York)
by slimboyfat 15 Replies latest jw experiences
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slimboyfat
In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is
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Anna Marina
Nice if they'd express more diversity of architecture. No mention of pyramids.
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onestepatatine
NYC is a craphole. The criminals are running it and its just like it was or getting very close to what it was in the 1980s. Time Square was full of seedy porn clubs, pimps, hookers and drug dealers and users. No one would go there unless it was to indulge in the above activities. It took a lot of work by hard on crime people to clean it up. Stop and frisk ect.
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slimboyfat
This Times Square, here in Koyaanisqatsi by Philip Glass?
I read that Philip Glass worked as a taxi cab driver in New York to support himself before his music made a living. You can hear an echo of the stop and start of the cars between lights at each block crossroad in his music.
Is New York too big to sustain, our entire culture for which it is a synecdoche, bloated, unwieldy, heading for the rocks.
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slimboyfat
Reports that New York has “died” already. I hope it isn’t so.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nyc-dead-forever-heres-why-james-altucher
It’s a long way to Canaan, on Bleecker Street.
Some great covers of Bleecker Street on YouTube