Here today & gone tomorrow! For the moment I am back. As I was sitting on the couch the other night, watching the idiot box, I realized something. I was watching a show about some Italian man who has a very fancy restaurant. The man was well known for his place and he was a success at it. Further into the show he closed it down to open a new one. His son is suppose to be the one running things now. Long story short, they dont see eye to eye on things and fight how it should be. This made me think about Old New York. The father is set in his ways off the boat from Italy & his son sees things in a different way. For me this was the connection I made that kept me watching. The father wanted to stick to what he knew for many reasons. Even with some failures in the past, he knew what he had to do. His way had to do with things that are dear in his heart & things that meant the world to him. Nostalgia was the ticket for this man, but his son thought things had to be done a different way. We have to do this & we have to do that his son says. Everything his son wanted to do had to deal with a new way of life & accommodating a newer group of people. What Im getting at and the connection for me was I feel the same way about New York. NYC has been changed around to fit the needs of others & not the Old New Yorkers that are here rightfully so. In the show, the father did things the way his son wanted to do them and they failed opening night. 1 star was the out come for its reviews. Months later, the father changed it all around to his likings & his way of life. The next review brought him 3 stars. I guess what Im getting at is not all of us want the changes that are being made to the city, Of course I dont want to live in a shit hole, but do I want Targets & Papa Johns all over NYC? HELL NO! I say change is not always good. Added security measures all over that is a joke and all that does for us is make life a living hell. Plus its really not making us safer. I love the fact that they think they are really doing all of us good. You could leave a bag on the train or anywhere, no one says shit. The other night as Im working at LGA airport, a car sat the wrong way in traffic, crashed into a pole for 45 minutes and no one did anything. At the same time a lady laid on the floor having a seizure and when help was called the cops came instead of a ambulance. Then the cops called the medics to come. So here you have a new post 911 system that has been implemented that fails us as New Yorkers. So for this to be put in place, we lose out in other area's because money is pulled away for all this post 911 crap. Then shit doesnt even work how it should. The new shit is they want to start charging High school & below to ride transit. People can barely afford to pay for them selves to get on the train and now you want to charge students too. Its not like they are losing money when a student gets on. May be the MTA isnt gaining, but they are not losing out. FUCK ALL THESE CHANGES. Us Old New Yorkers are the blood & guts of this city. We drive the trains & buses, we pick up the trash, we do all the shit that the rich will not do. So now if you keep making it harder for us to live here, who is going to do all these jobs that keep the city flowing? NO ONE! The shit that kills me is that no one sticks together any more. Transit wants to bull shit us? fuck it STRIKE! No one wants to stick together and do things the old way. Well now we have to pay the price for it all. Change is inevitable, but it doesnt mean I have to like it. Im sure people born in the 60's hated the 80's and so on. So give me back the Red Birds with lights that flicker on & off. Give me back undeveloped areas where kids would go play and get into the trouble that youth got into. Give me back the chance to have fist fights and when they are done, winner or loser walks away. There's so much that is gone, it sucks. Never the less I am here for good till the death of me no matter what. This is my New York so dont be fooled by the hipsters, art fags & imposter's. There are a lot of us Old New Yorkers left.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Change Does Not Always Work!
Here today & gone tomorrow! For the moment I am back. As I was sitting on the couch the other night, watching the idiot box, I realized something. I was watching a show about some Italian man who has a very fancy restaurant. The man was well known for his place and he was a success at it. Further into the show he closed it down to open a new one. His son is suppose to be the one running things now. Long story short, they dont see eye to eye on things and fight how it should be. This made me think about Old New York. The father is set in his ways off the boat from Italy & his son sees things in a different way. For me this was the connection I made that kept me watching. The father wanted to stick to what he knew for many reasons. Even with some failures in the past, he knew what he had to do. His way had to do with things that are dear in his heart & things that meant the world to him. Nostalgia was the ticket for this man, but his son thought things had to be done a different way. We have to do this & we have to do that his son says. Everything his son wanted to do had to deal with a new way of life & accommodating a newer group of people. What Im getting at and the connection for me was I feel the same way about New York. NYC has been changed around to fit the needs of others & not the Old New Yorkers that are here rightfully so. In the show, the father did things the way his son wanted to do them and they failed opening night. 1 star was the out come for its reviews. Months later, the father changed it all around to his likings & his way of life. The next review brought him 3 stars. I guess what Im getting at is not all of us want the changes that are being made to the city, Of course I dont want to live in a shit hole, but do I want Targets & Papa Johns all over NYC? HELL NO! I say change is not always good. Added security measures all over that is a joke and all that does for us is make life a living hell. Plus its really not making us safer. I love the fact that they think they are really doing all of us good. You could leave a bag on the train or anywhere, no one says shit. The other night as Im working at LGA airport, a car sat the wrong way in traffic, crashed into a pole for 45 minutes and no one did anything. At the same time a lady laid on the floor having a seizure and when help was called the cops came instead of a ambulance. Then the cops called the medics to come. So here you have a new post 911 system that has been implemented that fails us as New Yorkers. So for this to be put in place, we lose out in other area's because money is pulled away for all this post 911 crap. Then shit doesnt even work how it should. The new shit is they want to start charging High school & below to ride transit. People can barely afford to pay for them selves to get on the train and now you want to charge students too. Its not like they are losing money when a student gets on. May be the MTA isnt gaining, but they are not losing out. FUCK ALL THESE CHANGES. Us Old New Yorkers are the blood & guts of this city. We drive the trains & buses, we pick up the trash, we do all the shit that the rich will not do. So now if you keep making it harder for us to live here, who is going to do all these jobs that keep the city flowing? NO ONE! The shit that kills me is that no one sticks together any more. Transit wants to bull shit us? fuck it STRIKE! No one wants to stick together and do things the old way. Well now we have to pay the price for it all. Change is inevitable, but it doesnt mean I have to like it. Im sure people born in the 60's hated the 80's and so on. So give me back the Red Birds with lights that flicker on & off. Give me back undeveloped areas where kids would go play and get into the trouble that youth got into. Give me back the chance to have fist fights and when they are done, winner or loser walks away. There's so much that is gone, it sucks. Never the less I am here for good till the death of me no matter what. This is my New York so dont be fooled by the hipsters, art fags & imposter's. There are a lot of us Old New Yorkers left.
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