Besides people, rats and cockroaches, NYC has a lot of buildings, or rather, crumblings.
This is due to many buildings being so old that were grandfathered into existing building codes, the proximity to the ocean that allows for a decent amount of salt to be in the air and the carelessness of property owners who refuse to [...]
Very few people who live in NYC make enough money to buy a home within a liveable NYC neighborhood and are unlucky enough to not have inherited some large stash money at the age of 35 to buy that $800,000 apartment.
This means that the majority of the residents of NYC live in rental units owned by people with [...]
For most New Yorkers Times Square is probably the absolute very last place they would want to find themselves, ever!
This is because Times Square is a necessary evil.
The fact that it kindly passes through the traffic of Broadway and 7th Avenue is about the only thing that is good about it.
That one good fact aside Times Square attracts people from [...]
As already discussed in previous editions of I Hate NYC, taking the subway is just about the most effective way to get from point A to B in the city.
Unfortunately anyone with two dollars or a bit of quickness can get on the subway, there’s no math, no reading comprehension and no common sense testing required to [...]
If any city in the U.S. is close to being paved with gold it’s NYC - only in NYC you the streets are nowhere near gold.
The gold streets were probably earmarked at one point in time, and the money paid out for gold paving, but somewhere along the line everyone turned the other way and [...]
People living in NYC tend to let everything be out in the open while out in public, especially parents with underage children.
Bad parenting comes in many shapes and sizes - but the worst kind to have to deal with are the bad parents who zone out to the point that they don’t hear or see [...]
NYC is a fast paced city where people live and die by the clock. Most want to get to and from places as fast as can be simply because there is so much to see and do all over the place.
In order to get the most out of the day, one needs to warp through [...]
NYC is a very festive place that loves even the tiniest excuse to throw the spectacle of a good parade - and thankfully for NYC, everyone under the sun is here and they all seem to get their parade.
[photo: DaveyWilson on Flickr]
Sure most everyone loves a good parade, but when there are so many parades [...]
If you want to make it as a stand up comic, NYC is one of the best and only places to do it.
Unfortunately that means that there’s a lot of bad comedy floating around city and because of this, most people equate watching unknown stand up comics to being worse than a visit to the [...]
One of the places that everyone who either lives in or visits NYC tends to go to is Central Park.
They go there because it is a beautifully landscaped park that is conveniently located in the center of Manhattan with “lots of open space” for everyone to enjoy - and this is exactly what is wrong [...]
People in NYC love to eat outside. This is most probably due to the lack of indoor space inside of most apartments, along with the feeling of the air outside being “fresh” - no matter how cold the temperature.
This was the temperature in Fahrenheit on Sunday afternoon and guess what, we ate outdoors (Mike, don’t [...]
Living in NYC means that you cause more trucks to be on the road - that’s just a plain fact.
Each day trucks zig and zag many a maze all throughout the city, dropping off deliveries to the stores, restaurants and homes along the way.
Unfortunately all of the good truck drivers are overshadowed by the few [...]
