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Although I’ve never actually been there, driving by Co-op City is the most depressing part of the city for me. It’s the ultimate manifestation of 20th century, Robert Moses-style social engineering. “Towers in the park” make my skin crawl. Stuy-Town is bad, but at least it’s in the city. Co-op City is in the middle of nowhere.
although i’ve never actually been there, driving by co-op city is the most depressing part of the city for me. It’s the ultimate manifestation of 20th century, robert moses-style social engineering. “towers in the park” make my skin crawl. Stuy-town is bad, but at least it’s in the city. Co-op city is in the middle of nowhere.
Hold your horses everyone!! I'm not being a "Debbie downer" here. I know some of you (especially people new to NYC) find it inconceivable to put depressing and NYC in the same category, same sentence. However, fact of the matter is that same areas of NYC are just down right depressing. Since its a gloomy day, I decided its a good topic to speak on some lame, uninteresting, boring, miserable parts of NYC.
I feel Wakefield area in the Bronx (especially 241st) wins "Most Miserable NYC" award. Its far away from Manhattan or anything cool for that matter and there's NO, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH redeeming value for being far away from Manhattan (or Brooklyn and Queens for that matter). There's no good eateries, parks, and forget about having any sense of art here. There's not even a sense of community. However, its a ghetto wonderland. Especially during the spring and summer. Prostitutes can be seen as early as 6am while kids are on their way to school, crack heads can be seen walking up and down the strip of 241st White Plains road OR in your apartment building lobby, hallway or stair case doing what they do best. The moment you step out the train station on 241st, you're hounded by low life scum trying to get you taxi service, whom are NOT even licensed and have the audacity to charge you as much as a regular cabbie or more!! Don't be surprised if they speak to a prostitute on the way.
You can also witness a bunch of hood rats and infidels who don't even live in your building loiter in front or i ittill the break of dawn. Fights, gun shots, everything a true "hood" is made out of defines that cesspool. It also borders the crap side of Mount Vernon so that's additional misery. Everyone is cold, unfriendly, and just plain rude.
There's just truly nothing to do in Wakefield at all unless you want to live out in a ghetto, cesspool, wonderland. Sometimes I wish the Cloverfield monster would eradicate that area and hopefully decent people can come back and start over.
I would not say Wakefield qualifies for most depressing..but it sure is a long and depressing commute by public transportation from Manhattan! I think the nabes in the running should include East New York, Brownsville, University Heights/Morris Heights/Tremont (they all kinda blend together as one giant tenement rotting neighborhood), the housing projects all around coney island...completely isolated, desolate and destitute.
The Financial District on a Saturday afternoon is kinda depressing. Dead except for tourists. Though narrow streets combined with skyscrapers are neat to look at.
Any of the corporate plaza type places as well.
I agree.
Also in Long Island City right by the Citi building on a weekend. What a ghost town
Speaking of Co op city, I was just researching and If is a private co-op how do they get away with Income limits and maximums?
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