'2020....I am....forgotten....'

After 911

NYC isn´t that dangerous anymore.

WTF are you talking about Gossip Girl was peak NYC is cool among normies

Friends was in New York too.

NYC's cultural power as the "capital of the world", shit people use to unironically say, ended with 9/11 and the tv show friends. I should know, I lived through it.

>gossip girl
It was never as big as the OC was amongst normies.

A few years ago it was briefly safer than London. Really, for all of NYC's faults crime is not one of them.

Wrong, London is still the most important city in the world, followed by NYC, and then Shanghai.

Its the home of
>The largest stock market (The street its on is literally synonymous with stonks
>The UN
>The tallest building in the western hemisphere (could've been taller but we chose to stop it at 1776 ft because 1776 was the year the country is said to have been founded. yes I'm serious)
>The largest metropolitan area (not by population or land area but by total usable urban landscape. Yes technically larger than Tokyo in this respect anyways)
So dunno where this is coming from

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>Shanghai more important than HK
"No".

Oh yeah, its also the wealthiest city on Earth

yes, but all of these things were started/set up decades ago, when NYC was cool

what new stuff is happening there?

It became a place that was too fucking expensive to live in.

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the late 1990s were warm up... then 9/11 definitely damaged its image.. I would say somewhere mid 2000s and then again in the early to mid 2010s when Brooklyn turned from hipster into thoroughly yuppie territory, combined with really a general decline of the cultural importance of cities here and everywhere thanks to increasing globalization, the growing influence of the Internet, most of all a gentrification that made that city unlivable in a different way than rats and crime. I think its global media dominance is still there though, in the states you don't have to flip too many cable channels to find a show set there
get a load of this retard

I guess you really are living in the late 90s.
NYC isn't cool anymore. No aspiring artist, intellectual or tech expert moves there anymore to make it big as a nobody. That's what California has become for people. It's populated entirely by rich yuppies working at stocks or banks that their dad had/has a position in.

It's not that NYC is no longer cool, but America as a whole is no longer cool.

>what new stuff is happening there?
I mean there are multiple major urban development projects going on I guess

It is not because of that. It is still the most important city in the world. You think like that because american propoganda machine doesn't make good stuff like they used to make. American media become too liberal and peaceful and they started to show only bad sides of murica.

uhh not really, the golden state's time has been up for just as long. Californians like most other unitedstatians have now turned towards colonizing Colorado, the rocky time zone belt of tech states next to it, and above all Texas. California is like NYC prices the state

>decline of the cultural importance of cities here and everywhere thanks to increasing globalization
I doubt this. In Canada, Toronto is still the centre of the universe as far as making it big. With Montreal being a closed second for artistic output and Vancouver for tech. I feel like California the state made NYC redundant/ obsolete outside of Wall Street.

When I mean liberal I mean liberal left. Liberal right doesn't care about morality they only care about money.

You are shockingly disconnected from reality

what do you mean by obsolete then? NYC is definitely not obsolete, if it was then you could actually buy living space there. it's simply no longer cool like how it was

How so? All the tech heads and artists that don't want to stick around in Canada have a "cali or bust" mentality. The ones who do stick around go to Toronto by and large. If im wrong please feel free to elaborate, because that's reality here.

People can't keep the pretense that it's not a soulless upper class corporate hellscape so no one defends it anymore

By obsolete I mean everything that people though was cool about NYC shifted to California.

Any cool cosmopolitan city is like that.

Its the headquarters of the United Nations and the most important stock exchange. There are single buildings there that cost more than the entire GDP of multiple countries

And there is the problem. NYC died when it became the HQ of the globalist elite. It lost its roots so it basically became a theme park version of itself

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LCD Soundsystem perfectly summed it up
youtube.com/watch?v=c5kM3iwYVi0

At least in the US no city even comes close to the level of Dubaification of NYC, San Francisco would be the closest but even glorified yuppie colonies like Boston have more character than NYC has now.

I feel like GTA IV also used satire to show why NYC was no longer a fun city to live in as well.