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Some people find the neighborhood depressing because of the amount of nursing homes and the lack of bars, but I have never heard the area called depressing because of accusations of racism which the OP says he can't prove. That is a new one for me.
What's depressing is very subjective. Although for me Riverdale is not depressing, I can understand that it might be depressing to someone else. So that post made sense.
the Fashion District of manhattan is generally depressing. in looks and vibe. not sure why. jmho. some parts there are so fugly (ironic, considering it's the fashion district) they're most definitely depressing to be around
Ugliness to me comes from people's attitudes and actions. Like when a couple of young people trash a pretty new apartment building on their second day there by inviting 50 of their friends over to dance on the roof to a DJ, slop around in a kiddie swimming pool of Pabst, and trash the halls until they look like a building that should be razed. (This happened in our building, which has always been a "family building on a family block," so the tenants are banding together to take action.) Or when someone who doesn't care about his neighborhood takes all his trash and throws it around the front yard. Or when someone drops food or trash while eating out and about, or on the train. Or when someone decided to be rude because they learned NY'ers are rude from some guidebook from 1993, and so he treats the guy at the deli like crap, and then gets angry when the deli guy remembers me and my husband by name, but pretends not to know Mr. No-Manners.
You can find this kind of ugliness anywhere. It can infest any pocket of beauty in NYC, and people who do it aren't well liked. It can spoil a beautiful moment in the prettiest patch of springtime sun in Ditmas Park or Astoria, but the true beauty of NYC, in any neighborhood, on any train, in most any establishment, is that there's always a friendly face around the corner.
But there is also something depressing about the various pockets of Midtown and Downtown Manhattan that boast a Starbucks, Duane Reade/Walgreen's, and America Apparel everywhere. You have to work harder to find shops and restaurants that are locally owned, longtime staples of the city than I remember having to on my many trips to NYC before I moved here for work. Sadly, this is not just NYC...this is all of America. It's happening in Philly, Atlanta, San Francisco and LA, and it's even happening across the Midwest. It seems more pronounced and therefore depressing here because we are the largest city in the country, and one of the largest in the world, and NYC has always been unique in that you could experience literally any culture or experience you cared to with little effort.
Ugliness to me comes from people's attitudes and actions. Like when a couple of young people trash a pretty new apartment building on their second day there by inviting 50 of their friends over to dance on the roof to a DJ, slop around in a kiddie swimming pool of Pabst, and trash the halls until they look like a building that should be razed. (This happened in our building, which has always been a "family building on a family block," so the tenants are banding together to take action.) Or when someone who doesn't care about his neighborhood takes all his trash and throws it around the front yard. Or when someone drops food or trash while eating out and about, or on the train. Or when someone decided to be rude because they learned NY'ers are rude from some guidebook from 1993, and so he treats the guy at the deli like crap, and then gets angry when the deli guy remembers me and my husband by name, but pretends not to know Mr. No-Manners.
You can find this kind of ugliness anywhere. It can infest any pocket of beauty in NYC, and people who do it aren't well liked. It can spoil a beautiful moment in the prettiest patch of springtime sun in Ditmas Park or Astoria, but the true beauty of NYC, in any neighborhood, on any train, in most any establishment, is that there's always a friendly face around the corner.
But there is also something depressing about the various pockets of Midtown and Downtown Manhattan that boast a Starbucks, Duane Reade/Walgreen's, and America Apparel everywhere. You have to work harder to find shops and restaurants that are locally owned, longtime staples of the city than I remember having to on my many trips to NYC before I moved here for work. Sadly, this is not just NYC...this is all of America. It's happening in Philly, Atlanta, San Francisco and LA, and it's even happening across the Midwest. It seems more pronounced and therefore depressing here because we are the largest city in the country, and one of the largest in the world, and NYC has always been unique in that you could experience literally any culture or experience you cared to with little effort.
It's happening globally in fact with the multi-national chains all about.
I wouldn't consider most ghetto areas to be depressing.
They tend to be much more lively and vivid than the more affluent suburban-like locations (which tend to be very drab, dull, dead, boring and depressing).
I would say that the industrial area near Liberty Avenue in Jamaica is the most depressing. Its just ugh!
Also further east on Linden past Eldert Lane by the Brooklyn/Queens border right before you hit the Conduit. The roads are barely even paved.
Yes, absolutely that part too.
I once hit a pothole just outside of Resorts World and blew two tires....by the time the tpm in my car went off and I realized what happened, I was rolling down Linden by Fountain Ave. Had to leave my car overnight and try to figure out the best way to get back to Bay Ridge. This was all around 2am. Worst experience ever lol.
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