This Is What We Do Now

Thursday, February 09, 2006

I am from Manhattan, and therefore better than you

I don't know what shit-encrusted rock you crawled out from under, but unless you were born and raised in New York City like me, I don't have the time to contemplate your existence.

What exactly do you bring to the table by not being from Manhattan? Southern charm? West Coast laziness? Long Island feelings of entitlement? I've lived in this Goddamn city my entire life and have left twice, neither of which was of my own volition. Don't fuck with me.

I don't know how to get to JFK or Laguardia.

I can only name three states, and two of them start with the same adjective.

You identify your hometown as New York, but live "10 minutes away from the City," do you? How quaint. The homeless crackhead on the 6 is more New York than you'll ever be.

I laugh when I meet people who aren't from the City, especially when they don't know why Third Avenue divests itself of southbound traffic at 24th Street.

Cabs are for tourists. Real New Yorkers walk to their destinations. You haven't lived in this city until you've conquered the East River during rush hour.

I have never been in a drinking establishment whose name contained less than two syllables. You have automatically lost the privilege of attempting to call yourself a New Yorker if you have spent any amount of time at venues named Quo, Hush and Spray.

Contrary to what you may have seen or heard, Murray Hill is not technically part of Long Island.

You call yourself a "New York blogger"? Did you take the subway to high school every day when you were 14 years old? Exactly. You are not a "New York blogger." Go back to the Midwest, hippie.

Moving here after college does not make you a New Yorker. You could live here for the next 50 years and you will still never be a New Yorker.

There used to be a hole where the Virgin Megastore in Union Square is, and that's where I buried your parents for giving birth to you.

Believe it or not, 14th Street is not the northernmost border of Manhattan.

I smoke in whatever bar I please. Bloomberg calls me for permission to take a shit.

Not only do criminals not mug me, they ask me to point out the easiest targets. Guess who gets a free pass?

I eat, sleep, breathe and bleed New York. I am better than you.

95 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am from NJ..and apparently the only one reading your blog.

2/09/2006 11:32 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hell no - I am from NY, read it, and loved it

2/09/2006 11:46 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am madly in love with you. Please marry me.

2/09/2006 11:48 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm from NYC. So? Honestly I'm sick of the self righteous bullshit you and other NYers seem to have. We are no better than anyone else. Why? Because we pay more for real estate and can point out a crackhead or two on the subway? I love NYC but why are you so damn evil about your adoration? Get over yourself.

2/09/2006 11:51 AM  
Blogger The Assimilated Negro said...

"so ny my heart pumps concrete and pain..."

You really nail this voice/style. If you pitch a column, this and the I have a blog piece shold be the templates. might be forgetting others ...

waddup with Tang's son?

2/09/2006 11:58 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love it when 20-somethings talk about "the way it used to be" or "how it is" like some old salt. That said, this is dead-on balls accurate. Bravo!

2/09/2006 11:58 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

way to not use the airport and travel, your just like any other dumbfuck who hasnt left home, try going somewhere where you cant check your email every 3 minutes, it might be easier for you to walk around with another crutch, maybe a religion or something?

2/09/2006 12:05 PM  
Blogger fairest said...

Oh this is great, man. (or woman) -- it's like all those people in the train who don't move to the damm center. None of them should be allowed to blog about a bar on Ave. A.

2/09/2006 12:07 PM  
Anonymous rr said...

I'm from Lowell Mass. People are always trying to say 'oh yeah, i'm a Lowellian' when you know those bitches only moved there to go to UMASS Lowell.

I was there when that shit was just U-Lowell, folks. When the Wang Towers stood tall. Before there was a Kerouac Memorial Park. We just had to sit on the dead man's grave in the Edson Cemetary!

So, Mr. NYC, I hear you. People have tried to ride my hometown jock and I rage back at them with an angry fist and a loud "Shove it!"

Stand tall, homes.

2/09/2006 12:18 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm from Brooklyn. How do you think I feel now that Bklyn is cool as shit?

2/09/2006 12:34 PM  
Anonymous MITZY from O.D. said...

you- fool, can
take your pretentious island and stick it.

NYC sucks now anyway. Why would I
want to live with a whole bunch of rich white people?

Portland is better, cheaper and a
much better city.Unlike New York, it is not GENTRIFIED. It is
full of artists and muscians who can afford to live there because it's cheap. Again, unlike New York.

San Francisco also is cool. It's still interesting and gritty like New York was in the Seventies although rich white people did their best to destroy it but failed and fled eventually, thank God.

NYC is so 20th Century, please.

So you and all the the other rich white fools can have it.

please have it. and stay there. forever.

thank you.

2/09/2006 12:42 PM  
Blogger dancing at gunpoint said...

You're a good writer. Let's get married!

2/09/2006 12:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have been to NYC, and I'm as happy to say I'm from Denver as you are to say you're from Manhattan.
I almost feel sorry for you for not having experienced anything else.

2/09/2006 12:49 PM  
Anonymous Larry said...

TAN - if you have any connections or know somewhere I can pitch a column, I'm all ears. Additionally, we will have to get Tang's soon. My bad on that.

For everyone else, I hate to rain on your parade, but this post is what's commonly referred to as satire. Check out Blagg Blogg if you want to see how it's really done.

I'm actually making fun of people like myself who occasionally get on their high-horse about being from New York. Sure, some of the sentiments ring true, but who really thinks like this?

"I smoke in whatever bar I please. Bloomberg calls me for permission to take a shit."

"Not only do criminals not mug me, they ask me to point out the easiest targets."

If these two sentiments alone weren't dead giveaways that I was being sarcastic, you probably shouldn't be reading this blog.

2/09/2006 1:07 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Shit, I didn't even really like it-- tiptoeing along the line between irony and take-me-serious-- but I have to call out whoever said Manhattan is filled with rich, white people and then inward-singing-style said Portland isn't gentrified. And I won't even say anything about Portland's demographics... Christ on a bike, Mitzy, you're fucked.

2/09/2006 1:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

only rich white people get to live in Manhattan, everyone else has to commute there from queens to basically serve the rich people.

2/09/2006 1:11 PM  
Anonymous Mitzy from O.D. said...

sure, now he calls it satire. also, whatever about Portland--all i know is that anyone can afford to live there. go check out the rents on Craigslist if you don't believe me. and i know that Portland is full of working and middle class white people and the northwest in general is demographically mostly white. duh. that's where all the white-supremecy groups, militias and creepy cults are. but they aren't rich and pretentious like in New York, so that makes it better.

and what the hell does Christ on a bike mean?

I never heard that expression before.

2/09/2006 1:19 PM  
Blogger Ace Cowboy said...

"only rich white people get to live in Manhattan, everyone else has to commute there from queens to basically serve the rich people."

This is what we in the rich, young white kid business call "The way it should be."

Sho'nuff.

2/09/2006 1:19 PM  
Anonymous Leland said...

I hope that you're one of the last of your breed. You're the opposite of what makes this a great city, although you're a small part of the bigger picture. Someone in your family wasn't born here at some point, and "here" would be nowhere without immigrants and transports.

The Ramones were from Queens and Andy Warhol was from Pittsburgh. Ella Fitzgerald was from Yonkers. What exactly do you contribute--as a Manhattanite--except stereotypical snobbishness?

At least you're clever, so I'll keep reading.

2/09/2006 1:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh Larry. You're one big bad satire. You turn me on. I'd ride you like a donkey

2/09/2006 1:59 PM  
Anonymous ParenthetiGal said...

as krucoff the great once said, somewhere in young manhattanite comments long since deleted, the best way to ruin a joke is to explain it. and "new england" isn't a state.

2/09/2006 2:02 PM  
Anonymous Larry said...

PG - I was debating the merits of explaining or keeping silent, and I know I went against rule #1 of humor, but it continues to boggle my mind that some people come here and still don't get it.

2/09/2006 2:19 PM  
Anonymous Larry said...

Good point David - momentary lapse in judgement on my part.

2/09/2006 2:20 PM  
Blogger David said...

I have to agree with parenthetigal; fuck 'em if they can't take a joke. Never explain yourself. That's so bridge and tunnel.

2/09/2006 2:22 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was born and raised in manhattan and I have hardly ever left it. I think the things this column said.

Satire comes from truth.

And everyone not from here just has to take that, suck it, and pity me.

2/09/2006 2:25 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He wasn't writing this as a satire. He meant it. Just because he back-peddled calling it a satire doesn't mean it was.

2/09/2006 2:30 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

NY is a Blue State, third-world immigrant infested hell-hole. Always was an immigrant city, and still is to this day. it's also the world headquarters of worldwide jewry and that's the reason the "USA" (not) got attacked on 9-11. The day a "terrorist" hits Denver, Colorado is the day zionist get off the hook, in my book.

You share your New Yorkness with lieflong Pakis, PRs, Chinese, Jamaicans, Haitians, and all the rest.

Not impressed buddy.

2/09/2006 3:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the above anon noter is wrong. except for chinese people that live within the confines of C-town,which btw--has been over-run by yups too-- all the immigrants live in the outer boroughs.

2/09/2006 3:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

To the anonymous fuckface above:

Yes NYC may have been a target for the 9-11 attacks...because the people in NYC are important enough that hitting them makes a significant impact on the world. The day that Colorado gets hit is the day no one would give a fuck because Denver sucks. Additionally, Colorado doesn't need terrorists to attack it because it has enough insane 14 yr old trenchcoat mafia children to do it themselves.

-j

2/09/2006 3:13 PM  
Anonymous Trevor said...

Hey, I'm from Queens. How do you think I feel now that Queens is, is, well, errr, ummm, is...oh hell. Well, there's always the Mets. Oh, no, I did NOT just say that!

2/09/2006 3:17 PM  
Anonymous MC said...

I'm from NYC and have been for ages... while I agree that it is the center of the universe, I don't agree with the idiots that walk around this place thinking THEY'RE the center of the universe. You're not, you're just living in it.

2/09/2006 3:29 PM  
Anonymous ParenthetiGal said...

it's cool, larry. anyone who gets equal numbers of sex/marriage proposals and death threats in response to a post that may or may not be satire is doing something right.

2/09/2006 4:30 PM  
Anonymous rokey said...

Mitzi? Ever been to the West Hills of Portland or NW 23rd? How about The Pearl? IF you can find a job you MIGHT be able to afford a room in someone's house in SE.

2/09/2006 4:38 PM  
Anonymous heather said...

oh, Larry. you're such an asshole.

looking forward to you not having any time to ponder my existance. see you saturday.

2/09/2006 4:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fuck y'all, I'm from Texas.


Privelege? Try again.

2/09/2006 5:16 PM  
Blogger spinachdip said...

Oh Larry, you were whoring for Gawker but alas, only got Curbed. Keep on keeping on, dude.

Also, you're such an asshole.

2/09/2006 6:04 PM  
Anonymous Larry said...

Fuck, that's what I get for not using spellchecker. I HATE misspelling shit. Thanks, person from Texas.

Suki - Getting linked by Gawker is so 2005.

2/09/2006 6:32 PM  
Blogger White Dade said...

Whoever couldn't figure out Larry was joking by the eighth word of this post should stick to reading Family Circus for their comedic entertainment. Nicely done, sir.

And I still insist there is nothing special about New York one way or the other. Jacksonville with taller buildings and no beach was prety much my impresison.

2/09/2006 6:39 PM  
Blogger Stroll said...

So THAT'S what happened to my parents!

It was funny. Jeez...lighten up people.

2/09/2006 7:22 PM  
Blogger Scott said...

It never fails to boggle my mind that some people are so dumb that they can't tell satire and sarcasm from their own asshole.

And, like usual, without thinking, all the boosters came out of the woodwork. The retarded hippie boosting how Portland was for artists and musicians only, and the Texan telling us to fuck ourselves, and the idiot from Denver (DENVER! Are you fucking kidding me? Denver is where people from Nebraska go to take a shit!) applauding the September 11th attacks because New York is not the "real USA." Yeah, that Wal-Mart country, that's the America we should all be like. (That was also sarcastic, just to be clear.)

Unless those people were ALSO taking on the role of a clueless inbred idiot to keep the satire going, but if they were, they really didn't leave a clue that they were. But I don't think they were. Unless I'm the thick one. I am from New Jersey, you know.

2/10/2006 4:17 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

FUCKING HILARIOUS.

screw all these humorless freaks who don't get it and have to have it explained.

2/10/2006 9:11 AM  
Blogger spooky_girl said...

On any given day, a true New Yorker can endure and survive most shit than most of you non-New Yorkers will ever encounter in a lifetime. We live in the moment, we've seen it all, are more educated and open-minded than most Americans. We don't live in the suburban McHell most of you complacent, fat, lazy and ignorant citizens waddle in, and we're damn proud of being the center of the damn universe. And for you idiots that can't distinguish satire from real voice, look it up in the dictionary. If you know what that is.

2/10/2006 10:14 AM  
Anonymous mike_mad_man said...

I got the joke....good one at that...but like some one said up top there is always some truth behind the joke.
Since the topic has arisen let me emphasize my thoughts. There is no NYC without "BROOKLYN"!!
"so ny my heart pumps concrete and pain..."

If that isn't bklyn I don't know what is...

2/10/2006 10:21 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think anyone who did not think this was satirical is 1. uneducated and 2. not a native new yorker. I for one appreciated the sarcasm. For the rest of you clowns who posted ridiculous anti-manhattan comments and didn't get the sarcasm... well, real NYC people are from brooklyn, queens, the bronx, and manhattan...even staten island (technically)and their life experiences growing up in NYC are what make New Yorkers distinctive from the rest [interpret that as better if you want...that just makes you ignorant and oh, did i already say uneducated?]

2/10/2006 10:55 AM  
Anonymous eboracian said...

I applaud the celebration of what is special about being a native New Yorker, sarcastic or not. But do not give short shrift to the other four boroughs for the sake of Manhattan. New York City was not truly New York City until Brooklyn (reluctantly) agreed to merge with Manhattan in 1898.

A previous poster said that what was great about New Yorkers is that they go through ordeals on a daily basis that a non-New Yorker wouldn't experience in a lifetime, or something like that. That's a nice badge of honor, but what's more valiant is being someone who was born-and-raised in a not-so-glamorous community and enduring the tough times when Harlem, Fort Greene, or Williamsburg were the opposite of hot real estate markets, when Bushwick was a war zone.

Everyone praises New York for not being like other cities. Well, don't see it like other cities: downtowns with concentric rings of suburbs and exurbs. New York City is FIVE BOROUGHS. I don't care what you think of a Queens resident who lives in Flushing, where there are semi-detached homes, but takes the #7 subway into Midtown for work. He isn't a suburban commuter - he is a New Yorker, too!

2/10/2006 12:30 PM  
Blogger Z. Madison said...

Larry, once again, hats off to you. Hilarious, as are many of these comments. I especially liked "Denver is where Nebraskans go to take a shit." LOL.

When I was overseas recently, many of the people I met in Berlin, Prague and London had the same feelings regarding their city and all the new transplants.

And where did I say when they asked where I was from?....

Brooklyn.

No New York City. Just Brooklyn. :)

Even across The Pond, my borrough got respect and love.

2/10/2006 1:13 PM  
Anonymous mike_mad_man said...

Brooklyn stand up!!! (applause)

2/10/2006 1:59 PM  
Blogger spinachdip said...

spooky_girl,

I think I love you. I'd ask you to marry me if I didn't already have a standing offer from Larry. And who can say "No" to that pretty face?

2/10/2006 3:57 PM  
Blogger spooky_girl said...

spinachdip: thank you for the love. Larry's baby-doll pretty face really does win over many hearts, 'tis true. I often have to shield myself of its powerful gleam :-P

eboracian: I like what you said about the outer boroughs. Queens, Brooklyn, The Bronx and Staten Island surround Manhattan geographically and population-wise — there's no escaping us! And where else would you get a 3-bedroom apartment for the same price of a Manhattan shoebox studio?

2/10/2006 4:51 PM  
Anonymous graham said...

great job, absolutely hilarious. It really saddens me that so many people just do not get it.

2/10/2006 11:13 PM  
Anonymous downtown only said...

only a native new york putz who has never earned enough dough to move out of mommy and daddy's mansion on the Upper East Side (how else would bloomberg know to call you for, um,... whatever it is he needs in the john) would think 3rd avenue loses southbound traffic at 24th.

stay uptown you petit bourgeois schmutz.

2/11/2006 6:27 PM  
Anonymous Larry said...

Hey, fucking idiot. Next time you try to mouth off at least attempt to be right.

Go to the intersection of 24th Street and 3rd Avenue. It turns one way, northbound traffic only. No one doesn't know this, except you apparently.

How you - who seems to be a native New Yorker, though I am quite embarassed that you're taking up space in my city - could not be aware of this fact makes you a fucking retard.

2/11/2006 7:25 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I like your post but NOT the title, you are not better than anyone else because you live in Manhattan. I've been there twice and believe me, it's not the center of the universe!
I've lived, worked, visited, and toured in hundreds of cities worldwide and Manhattan can't be compared to Praque, St. Petersburg, Russia, London, Istanbul, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Seattle, and even San Antonio, TX! I'm one of the very few americans who lived in Tehran, Iran, as a pre-teen in the early 70's during the reign of the Shah. My father was a consignment engineer. It was an unique experience that you, a manhattanite, who's never left the city would be able to understand or comprehend. You may be a new yorker but you have a narrow worldview, get over it!
Every city has its own identity and personality and they all fall into distinctive categories of prestige and notability, no place can call itself the world's esteemed capital of elitism.
You're a snob. NYC is an over-populated, over-hyped, over-rated, pretentious quagmire of urban drudge, poverty, and lacks an aesthetic integrity, so to speak. Personally, I don't know anyone who would visit there unless it's business related or spending a day or two just to see Spamalot or Lion King on Broadway.
NYC has a rich cultural identity, I'll admit but that's nothing for you to brag about personally, right?

2/11/2006 8:24 PM  
Blogger stantonandorchard said...

this just in: your post cured cancer. that's how serious this sh*t is. yeah

2/11/2006 8:48 PM  
Blogger Malatron said...

I once smoked a cigarette at the Boysroom, and attended a wedding reception at Tavern on the Green. Also, I have met Suki, Heather, and Larry. Does that count for anything?

In addition, my sister lives in Manhattan. My brother used to live there, in addition to my father. And lastly, when I saw Eric from the "Grind" (mtv) on the street in Soho, I did the running man, and told him he was the best character on the Real World.

I also spent two nights in jail in nyc.

Can I have an honorable citizenship?

2/11/2006 8:52 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ugh, i don't believe larry wrote this as a satire. i believe he meant i it. because just last summer he wrote about how fat people shouldn't sit down on the subway because they take up too much space.

was that "satire" too?

2/11/2006 10:24 PM  
Anonymous Oliver said...

But fat people shouldn't sit on the subway, really, I mean, come on... or they should pay extra (maybe have a scale at the turnstile?).

Larry, you're brilliant, and honestly, reading the comments to a piece like this makes it even better - I'm always amazed at how many people do not have a sense of humor at all.
And to the person who lived all over the world, it seems you really broadened your horizon at lot. I applaud your wisdom and your sense of humor.

2/13/2006 10:29 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Terribly Bored 1: Portland is better, cheaper and a
much better city.Unlike New York, it is not GENTRIFIED. It is
full of artists and muscians who can afford to live there because it's cheap. Again, unlike New York.
I love this comment
did you write any of these?!

Terribly Bored 2: hahahahaha
no
did you think I wrote the portland one?

Terribly Bored 1: If these two sentiments alone weren't dead giveaways that I was being sarcastic, you probably shouldn't be reading this blog.

Terribly Bored 2: ugh
you know, I found this one slightly funny, but he always ruins it
and also, have you ever read Blaggblogg.blogspot.com? he is totally aping it
Sent at 4:27 PM on Monday

Terribly Bored 1: hold on
really?

Terribly Bored 2: well, read it

Terribly Bored 1: who is that?
someone else from wagner?

Terribly Bored 2: I don't know
noooo

Terribly Bored 1: ha

Terribly Bored 2: he says, take a look at blaggblogg to see how satire is done
so i did
and he's totally imitating him!
badly

Terribly Bored 1: interesting
well
that's how you learn
writing is a craft
ha

Terribly Bored 2: I can't believe we are talking about this

Terribly Bored 1: ha

Terribly Bored 2: I mean, we discuss this stupid TIWWDN every day

Terribly Bored 1: we should totally copy and paste our im conversation and comment

2/13/2006 4:49 PM  
Blogger himanshu suri said...

you elitist, rich, spoiled manhattanite fuckers make me sick. i want to vomit. like right now. because of YOU

2/13/2006 5:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

haha nicely done Terribly Bored 1 and 2

2/13/2006 8:35 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes Larry, we get that you were being satirical (nice job having to explain yourself, you've done it in other posts and only confirm that you're a brain-dead idiot who thinks he's smarter than he is every time you over-explain yourself in the comments). Good job repeatedly shooting yourself in the foot, because you're not only not skilled at humor, but you put up a big neon sign announcing it after the fact, to the amusement of people like me who know that you're a hack. Yeah, we get it. The problem is that your sarcasm sucks and you're just not very good at it. It was overkill by your last few points so it was clear you that you weren't being serious, but comments such as "I have only left the city twice" contain not a hint of sarcasm, or satire, and just make you look like a dumb fuck. The funny thing is that it's probably true that you've barely left New York, which would make it ironic that you think NYC is the best place in the world, idiot.

PS. The reason you can't get a decent girlfriend and have to contantly complain about it on this blog is because you're a shithead who goes to bars and picks up drunken loose sluts who end up dumping YOU (Haha, nice job that time), and then you wonder why you can't get any quality girls. Hint: You will NEVER get a high quality chick because they wouldn't be seen with a low-life like you for more than 10 seconds at a time. Get a clue.

Love,

Eric, a European fan of yours.

2/14/2006 5:42 PM  
Blogger Peggy Archer said...

Although I'd love to counter with "well, at least Los Angeles has cheaper rent than you, fucker", I'm afraid we're catching up.

At least we don't have subway muggings, since no one uses our subway.

2/14/2006 9:52 PM  
Blogger jay shail said...

The world needs more sex.

2/17/2006 4:58 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i've been thinking about this, larry, for the past week or so, and guess what? SATIRE is supposed to be funny...this was NOT funny at all. so eff you for trying to make me feel dumb for not knowing that this was an attempt at satire. THE ONION is satire, not this post!

2/22/2006 3:39 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi. I am from Texas. Wait, don't stop reading just yet. I never have understand why NY seems to be the center of everyone else's world. I've visited, and was not impressed. I know it's probably different to live there and be a native, but I just don't get it. There are so many places in the country that are better. Yeah, you have more people crammed into 1 city than anywhere else in the nation. Woopity-doo. You have Ethnic-Towns. So does every other major city in the universe. BTW, I'm not impressed with you taking the subway to school. What impresses me is kids who take busses 40 miles to school with no heat/a.c. in a state that has lows in the winter of 2 and highs in the summer 112. Sometimes in the same month. I'm just happy I live in the one state where people still don't buy the Hype. There's no such thing as Southern Charm, it just makes us look good when everyone else is a bunch of dicks.

I am not anonymous. My name is Daniel. My email is dggiles@etmc.org
I would give out my cell #, but I like not having my voice mail blown up.

2/23/2006 4:10 PM  
Anonymous RobbedTourist said...

Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else. So, whatever.

Yeah the world needs more sex!

2/25/2006 7:27 PM  
Blogger Zach said...

Holy hell!

If everyone hates this blog so much, why do they know minute details of your personal life? I'd be terrified that my enemies take the time to research me so obsessively!

That was *perfect* satire!

-- Z

3/13/2006 7:57 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

all new yorkers do is constantly try to justify the $$$ they spend on rent. booooring.

3/15/2006 2:21 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I spend 500 a month for a studiop apartment in Journal Square, Jersey City...
Manhattan is soooo over...so 90's

4/03/2006 5:41 PM  
Anonymous Lunachicknyc said...

To all the non- NYers, until you live here shut the fuck up. I have tried to live in FLA, CA, and OH and a true NYer can't. Once you cross those borders people become incessantly slow, and want to be nice and polite, Fuck you! Who wants conversations with random strangers?
Outside of these borders its hard to find a bar/club open until past 2 am and after hours that rage til the next afternoon. But hey that's NY and everyplace else is not.
And why is our real estate more expensive? Because supply is low and demand is high because everyone wants to live here.
Our crime is down thanks to some great mayors so there's no reason for hicks to be afraid of NY anymore.
No. Better. Place. To. Live

4/17/2006 12:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

he has far to much time on his hands

4/22/2006 8:22 AM  
Anonymous James said...

Larry,

While I definitely can come close to appreciating what you're saying, don't even think that a 14 year old commuting intra-Manhattan is all that hardcore. Try doing it from outlying Queens. There are buses involved. Ain't no such thing as an outer borough no more anyway, it's expensive, crowded, and dirty everywhere people vote for/'gainst the Mayor.

5/02/2006 8:53 AM  
Blogger The Last Real New Yorker said...

Brooklyn aint cool. Brooklyn is full of rich white kids nowadays. Im leaving this disgusting fucking new suburb that is NYC as soon as I get a chance. Fuck this shit.

6/12/2006 12:31 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

New York has nothing on MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA, the best goddam city on the planet

6/17/2006 11:53 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I though only we Texans felt that way.

You can't be from Texas unless you were born here, preferably at least a 6th generation.

We could give a big ol' rats bee-hiney about NYC.

7/20/2006 3:48 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

it's insular, simple-minded thinking like yours that invites terrorism to our wonderful city. you're a jerk, and apparently not too aware of what's going on in the rest of the world, because you've never been there.

7/20/2006 5:25 PM  
Anonymous matt (moderately sheltered midwest wuss) said...

i am from a quiet suburb near cleveland, on lake erie.. which is trying to become a city over night.
i just dont understand any of this . . texas . . ny . . oh god . . oh god .
i just want to go to mcdonalds and listen to my iPod and talk to random strangers and nod and shit.
bye.

7/22/2006 4:02 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

clever piece of writing. spent quite some time in ny. i'm not a new yorker, not even an american. I personally think nobody can identify who a real new yorker is. when it comes to talk about the city, there is only the rich and the poor. simple.

7/27/2006 4:04 PM  
Anonymous Kalafan said...

I like the fact that NYC apparently lacks the "Have a nice day!" fakeass attitude that seems to dominate less-urbanized places. I'll take honest rudeness over fake politeness anyday, although honest politeness outranks them both. That aside, it's still the fucking epicenter of International Finance and cultural imperialism (although it shares the latter attribute with Hollywood). Also, it's more or less a fucking forest of cement&metal, and I can name a shitload of 3rd Worlders who wouldn't be all that broken up if it, along with Washington D.C., sank into the sea, taking all it's occupants with it.

9/30/2006 2:52 PM  
Anonymous Alsee said...

I can only name three states, and two of them start with the same adjective.

What do you mean TWO start with the same adjective?
New York, New Jersey, New England.

10/28/2006 11:58 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Reading your post not only made me less intelligent but also wasted my time... thank you for your ignorant writing... If you are not really as ignorant as your portray yourself to be, then you are a looser with too much time on your hands. There are better places to live than a smog filled over populated city, but then again you would not know this as you have left twice.

11/02/2006 11:02 AM  
Anonymous Luke said...

Clearly, none of you have ever been to Berlin...
(from CT [NOT the rich part], livin' in Boston, I'm better than you, yadda yadda yadda)

12/11/2006 10:28 PM  
Anonymous Alex said...

You are mentally ill.

12/21/2006 9:55 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I too was born and raised in Manhattan and luckily did not turn out to be as arrogant as you. You're so hardcore.

12/21/2006 10:03 AM  
Blogger House of Suz said...

I hear ya. I'm from Shreveport and HATE those assholes who said they were from S'port but really grew up in Bossier City. Bossier City? Assholes, get a life I say.

1/19/2007 1:57 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

you are indeed not a real new yorker. ie you are comparing a crackhead to yourself. And B. you can not dance. New yorkers dance...you must dance you bitch. get out you faker.

2/02/2007 10:15 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

you are a fake .. the stentch is undeniable... kill yourself before you kill others.

2/02/2007 10:19 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

please someone disagre with me and i will personally remove you from this fine city

2/02/2007 10:22 PM  
Anonymous David said...

If there's one favor you Manhattaners can do for Brooklyn, is to keep your hipsters and yuppies out of Williamsburg and the rest of Brooklyn. I'm sick of seeing kids move to Brooklyn for the sake of trendiness. All the damn college and post college kids think there is a Bohemian lifestyle in Brooklyn, because of that crap Johnathan Larson wrote, and now everyone hip motherfucker wants to live "La Vie Boheme. It's your fault they're here. And it's your fault Brooklyn is getting gentrified to shit.

Stop it.


KEEP THEM OUT.

2/24/2007 5:28 PM  
Anonymous Clare said...

Americans are so amusing.. Perhaps all it takes is a little distance to understand that this is a rather entertaining blog. I don't live in NY, in fact, I don't even live in America, but thanks from Australia for the laugh!

3/28/2007 9:20 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i fucking love how everyone says brooklyn is gentrified. Get your fucking ass out of park slope and williamsburg and you might see that some of brooklyn isnt filled with "rich white kids". i hail from sheepshead bay motherfuckers. suck it.

4/01/2007 3:36 AM  
Anonymous LAisMUCHbetter said...

New Yorkers are the stupidest bunch of douchebags on earth. You are proof. I'm glad you live in NY, please stay there. The rest of the country does not want to hear about how cool you are because you are from NY. Nobody cares. In reality New York is a hellhole. If I wanted to sit on a crowded subway smelling piss all day next to some smelly bum I would move there too. I prefer sunshine and fresh air and gorgeous tan women that you get along the coast of California. You can keep your snow, rats, and pasty chicks bundled up not showing any skin. Once again, I'm glad you love NY, please stay there.

4/12/2007 9:52 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It is quite typical that you all seem to think that the US is the only place in this world. Look beyond you own shores. There is more to the worl than NY or the US.

4/17/2007 6:47 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ha. I can't believe you wrote this like you're bragging at everyone else. You, not leaving nyc except only twice is VERY sad. You're just a narrow-minded person who was unlucky enough to travel to anywhere else, oh, which is very NOT new york. I pity you.

4/27/2007 7:08 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, so concise and enlighting...i see why others should be impressed by someone like you...i imagine that you are from the social class
call "Jerkoff"

Thanks

5/22/2007 8:58 AM  

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