Comments by "Babu" (@Babu-kr3cr) on "Cash Jordan" channel.

  1. Who wants to visit a place where you can't find parking, can't sit when you are tired of walking, can't find a public bathroom, and everything is expensive?
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  2. Wow over a million dollars to buy a regular three-bedroom apartment. It is so unaffordable there.
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  3. If someone is homeless and camps in your yard, do you have to invite them into your house and feed and take care of them? Why not let them find their way out the same way they found their way in before the city goes bankrupt?
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  4. Someone years ago, told me that he moved out of either Guatemala or El Salvador because of these gangs on the mopeds. He said they would go as far as pulling up next to cars in traffic and demanding possessions at gunpoint. He said he felt safer in the USA, but apparently, they are being given free rein to do that here now. Adams is completely mismanaging the city and should be recalled. If police can't arrest criminals but they can arrest protestors and the homeless, something is backwards. NYC used to have a very cool vibe that is vanishing. It looks very dark, dead and depressing now. No one seems to be out enjoying life any more except the very rich in their fancy restaurants. The homeless have vanished into thin air.
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  5. They have free food boxes in NJ where you can leave dry and canned goods. If you want to help, why not just reach in and throw out the bad food in the trash right next to it? If you have extra food you don't like, won't eat, put it in there. People seem to appreciate it. It is better than digging through garbage cans. That store can put their day-old food in the fridge. There was one in NJ that was refrigerated but they weren't maintaining it. If you left food in it, it would be there months later. I don't think many people were taking from it. I saw one that was just a pantry box outside a church with a lot of good gourmet items in it. I think it is a win win that you can donate anonymously on your own schedule, and people can pick up the same way. The number one thing NYers need is low-cost housing. You simply cannot find another place for $500 a month. If they lost that place, they would be homeless if they needed another at that price.
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  6.  @Countcho  It is a crazy, crowded city. I don't see why it should be so unaffordable.
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  7. That also makes the poor prisoners where they are living and can still afford it. It is causing a lot of them to become homeless. Half of the current homeless are over 50 years of age, just run out of their homes in retirement. I wonder if the locals could choose to take less money to help out a neighbor. Money isn't everything. When neighborhoods disappear, so does the quality of life in general.
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  8. He also declared a garbage revolution.
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  9. Meanwhile Americans are migrating south of the border to afford housing, health care, and a lower cost of living. The USA is a very rough place. It doesn't have the same opportunity it used to seem to. Even Americans struggle to figure out a way to make it here. There are US homeless that haven't showered in years. People very readily forget about each other and their neighbors. The people they consider worth dealing with are a narrow selection. These migrants come from more communal places.
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  10.  @konagirl805  Curtis Sliwa from Curtis and Kuby on WABC radio was running against him. He is the founder of the Guardian Angels. He should have won. He has a heart for the city and common sense.
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  11. That is ridiculously expensive for what is essentially a junky apartment. You could fit 8 homeless people in the 1,400 square foot one and 6 in the 900 square foot one. There is nowhere for those people to go. This will be rented by more rich people. Paying $3500-$45000 a month is not cheap rent at all. It may be stabilized, as all rent should be, but it is still for the upper income brackets. I like how all the unfinished touches are touted as quirky sell points. Normal properties have those pipes behind sheetrock. They didn't even bother with these stables and worker quarters. Having to walk down long alleyways and upstairs is touted as free from robbers. A yard full of potential rats is now a cat sanctuary. it is nuts what some people go through just to be in NYC which is a kind of nightmare in itself.
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  12. Maybe this is payback for this and what was done to Native Americans.
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  13. All those people who moved to the city for the convenience of stores are going to want to leave when all the stores leave. When there are no more stores to loot, will these criminal gangs resort to mugging people? What is Adams or Hochul doing about it other than saying it is bad? I always thought stores could physically stop you from stealing. They have to allow that again. Why are these stores being looted out of business while college students are locked up for protesting genocide? I feel like there is a criminal fascist take-over in the works. It is like Kristallnacht in Germany where thugs could have a free for all on stores and run them out of business for good. There used to be a strong neighborhood street culture in NYC that was run out. It was systematically destroyed by the right-wing dictatorial mayors. It has just turned soulless. There is no more culture or vibe. It is all sucked out by vampires trying to capitalize for themselves. They sit there oblivious on their cell phones sipping lattes and looking down their noses at the homeless while gangs are running wild. Where are the Ninja Turtles?
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  14. They want to destroy any sense of community. People look down on the poor, humble, and genuinely sociable. People hanging around means a culture and community forming. It means people interreacting with each other and sharing a space and purpose.
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  15. The radiators look old and dingy. That looks like an area that could be high crime. I don't think it is worth so much money. It is a small one-bedroom apartment with not-so-great views. That looks like it should be low-income housing. The furniture is what makes it look upscale, but that probably doesn't come with it. NYC is very unaffordable now. If it weren't, I would say that place is worth about $180,000.
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  16. The one bedroom was totally livable. It just needed to be repainted and caulked. Someone would probably even rent it as is. The whole low-income business is rigged for spite. They don't want those poor people having prime real estate in Chelsea. If they tear down Chelsea Towers, those poor people will never get back in. There is nothing wrong with metal cabinets or radiator heat. Put a new knob on the radiator. The whole thing could be done for $800. Then they could rent it affordable and still make money. They could easily get $2,000 a month. Say it was actually low income affordable though, like $1,000 a month? I think it is better than nothing, but they must be getting tax breaks.
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  17. Watch your back. You are exposing them hard. The whole thing is a racket with DIRTY players.
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  18. They created a disaster. If they are not regulating the crimes these people commit, then don't regulate them at all. Don't give them anything, don't bother them about where they live or if they have a registered motor bike. Just let them do whatever. That would cause less damage to the city than what is being done now. They worry about the dorm making $300 a head because they aren't making that money. Let people live where they want. Stop offering tickets and money and shelter and food and let them figure out if they want to be here. Most likely they will make it or go home.
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  19. It used to be on 8th Ave. when you walked from the Port Authority to Penn Station, it was filled with single room occupancy hotels that were cheap but used for nefarious things like prostitution. It was still a place for the poor to stay if they had to. There were cheap places to get a slice of pizza for a dollar or so all up and down there, small businesses selling electronics and cheap clothes, etc. Now everything is like a fancy shopping mall and ordinary and poor people have nowhere to go. Obviously when you kick a dog out of the house, he is going to be lurking in the yard after. It isn't bad enough that they do this to people, but they resent them for it. How about someone is sleeping outside, you say prayer for them and go about your business? If they aren't yelling at you or chasing you, go in your store, spend your money, and stop complaining about having to look at other people suffering. That is the height of entitlement.
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  20. What it comes down to is judging people by how they look which is wrong. The whole place can't look like Disneyworld so that it is good enough for the police commissioner's sons to look upon. This is elitism posing as compassion. If the system wasn't broken, people wouldn't be living in the subways. Most likely, they are just doing it for a night out of desperation. Maybe someone even missed the last train home and needs to sleep on the train until the next one out comes in the morning. They aren't bothering people if they are sleeping. To be honest, being stared down by soldiers with machine guns and hyper cops is going to keep people from wanting to browse in a shop. I think the rents in that billion-dollar subway mall were too high and that is how they lost tenants. I doubt bands of homeless were marauding in there. I never saw it. It was a very snobby mall.
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  21. It is a complete societal breakdown. If you can't even eat outside or do your laundry or buy toiletries without opening a safe, the whole quality of life is shot. Not to mention the rent is too high and then the food prices look high also. I think it is a deliberate destruction of the city. You can't have this go on. All the small shops will be run out of business. If it is not illegal to steal, if you can't stop thieves or call police on them, how can you run a business? If people then can't do laundry because there are no laundromats left, what then? Landlords don't allow portable washers dryers even if you can afford to buy them. What will these people have to do? I think the whole city is grossly mismanaged. There are gangs that are illegals that are carrying on their criminal enterprises here now that they have a refuge from being imprisoned in their own countries. NYC is turning into a vary dangerous and lawless place at the hands of a former police commissioner.
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  22. This is a ham fisted approach that is harming communities, endangering businesses, breaking up families, and ruining lives. Arresting people at work certainly is not making things better for anyone. Sneaking in to work is not the same as running human trafficking rings. We only see one side getting arrested and deported though.
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  23. The people kicked out of the shelters are probably trafficked. There is no way that 60% suddenly find housing or people to move in with. All these mothers with children are prime for the traffickers. That is the type of people who led them here in the first place. The migrant crisis serves a dual purpose. One, provide trafficking victims. Two, to create a Trojan Horse of dangerous gang members and criminals who know how to survive through criminal activity and will resort to that when there is no other way to live. These people are being victimized. Very few are going to make it and rise to the top as a result of the assistance.
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  24. If the USA can't help their own citizens, how are they going to help a bunch of foreigners who can't speak English? Those people are on their own. This is a hard country to make it in. It is a hard country to find your way in. Most foreigners just come here, earn money and leave fast. The culture is no good. It isn't friendly or helpful. They would be better off staying where they were. People who grew up her are struggling to figure out how to keep going. If you come from a place where you can survive, stay there. This place is a meat grinder going downhill.
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  25. Some people can't move up to a better job. Some people are good at cleaning parks. Why should their jobs be eliminated? If the parks aren't clean, no one is going to enjoy going to them. That is a productive thing that is being cut in favor of wasting money.
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  26. Let the store owners defend themselves without fear of prosecution. They were defending themselves. There were violent thieves in the store. The gun went off by accident. He was trying to scare them. If the father gets indicted, the prosecutor should be disbarred. This is not the spirit of the law. They twist laws to work against people instead of for them. You have a right to self defense.
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  27. You broke this down really well ... how incompetent Mayor Eric Adams is. Curtis Sliwa Says the funniest things about him and they are true. He said he is pompous at a rally. I think they should remove him and put in Curtis. Adams is bankrupting the city and now interstate bus companies. Curtis says to take the migrants out of the tents and schools and put them in the armory in Park Slope. Problem is that Park Slope is where the rich elitist yuppies are. That is too high end for migrant housing.
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  28. Two wrongs don't make a right.
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  29. How about a guaranteed job with the city when you get out of prison, doing park maintenance, building maintenance, etc.? They would be like under the trustee system in prison but getting a wage like everyone else. I am sure there are a lot of useful odd jobs they could be doing instead of just throwing money at people. They have dignity too and want to earn their money.
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  30. These people need to find their way back out. The city can't manage its own people let alone an influx of foreigners. It will collapse the whole system for everyone. Meanwhile the American homeless are being rounded up and placed in mental hospitals since May, over a hundred per month. Why aren't they allowed congregate housing in a tent? If you are homeless and mentally ill, they take you away and lock you up.
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  31.  @snarkyjoe3556  NY, NJ are just way too expensive now. People are being told to run for the hills to escape crime and taxes and lack of resources. They have their culture, and then the locals have another. People have to learn to respect each other and their differences. Like I said, if you lose your place in a state like that, you can't find another. You have to look long and far to find another one that you can afford.
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  32. I am afraid to go there any longer. The last few times I went I got deathly ill from something a couple of times. The trains are so crowded you feel like you are in a cattle car. I saw the article in the paper about how the subways get an F for safety. If you ride a bus, you are there for a long time to get anywhere. There are the most snobby entitled obnoxious tourists all over who wreck the vibe. People are terrible to the poor and homeless where they confront you for making a donation. I don't get the same sense of neighborhood and community that I used to. Now it is like a transient spot for rich thrill seekers. It used to be unique and cool and wild and free. Now it is like a corporate shopping mall with a bunch of greedy consumers carousing for their next fix.
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  33. It is so miserable there now. If you take a bus in, they have hostile architecture while you wait. You might get a metal seat with holes in it. They used to just have a little plastic butt rest. There aren't enough benches for everyone to sit. You can stand there half an hour trying to hold your place in line. If you aren't in shape, after a long day, it is too much. Anything that was making NYC interesting, or fun was taken away by making it unlivable. The train station is very confusing. You sit in a pen watching a board and when your train arrives, everyone jumps and runs and charges down the stairs like a herd of cattle in a chute. If you don't get at the head of the pack, you have to stand on the train, or they might not even let you on. You have to walk really far to find a rest room in the train station and weave your way among a lot of people standing shoulder to shoulder. The food in there is expensive also.
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  34. NYC used to be unique and fun. Now it is just expensive and boring. People used to be accepting and you could do whatever you wanted. Now you feel judged everywhere and people are just out to take advantage. The culture was ripped out bit by bit until it was just a big shopping mall for the rich. You can see the plan to bankrupt it in the public policy, first socially and now economically. They won't even provide basic services or protect basic rights like to feed the homeless or keep rent stabilized. Babylon the Great is falling. It is turning into a post-apocalyptic mess.
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  35. When laws are ridiculous and made against you, it is time to stop obeying them. The people are stealing your house. Squat them out back and make them pay your bills. These stupid laws don't help. The police are scared and won't do their jobs. This is trespassing, illegal entry, burglary, intimidation, etc. Just arrest the squatters. The landlords have the proof they are telling the truth. Let the criminal court judge figure it out, not some tenancy court. Someone with a lease being harassed by a landlord can show their lease. Someone with a deed can show that. Then the police need to do what is right and not what is convenient for them. You notice it is mild mannered, elderly, ultra law-abiding people who are the targets. No one is squatting in the Hell's Angel's clubhouse. Can you imagine putting an old granny in prison for five years for not paying for the water for the people who stole her house? She will say that when they ask her what she is doing time for.
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  36. The rich man let Lazarus lie under his table to eat scraps of food that fell with the dogs. NYC and Eric Adams won't even let the homeless have a scrap of space to sit as they live out in the cold.
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  37. How? They took the wood or the land also?
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  38. The Ukrainian migrants blended right in. They are given social security and full SNAP and who knows what else?
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  39. I think they voted for Curtis. He is super popular there. The voting machines can be manipulated.
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  40. I don't think they would try that in Little Italy or they would find out. They know where it is super touristy and all about money. Some people really won't fight back, but some will.
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  41. Isn't this looting? Isn't this what people starving after a hurricane do when the police and residents shoot them for it? How come if it is criminals doing it, they get away with it? The USA is lawless, and right is wrong and wrong is right. Macy's was full of expensive gems right off the street. I think the thieves ran in there and looted that. It is easy to hide lots of expensive jewelry. Funny how when a cop becomes mayor, the city is completely crime-filled. That shows you what kind of police department NYPD is.
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  42. Holdover means you have a written lease and a legitimate grievance. It doesn't mean you get in and won't leave. That is trespassing. They need to be removed as trespassers if they can't provide a written lease and answer to a written summons. How about if there is an apartment registry where once you sign a lease, it goes into a registry? Then the police can find out if this person ever legitimately was a tenant. Being in an Air B&B doesn't count. Your tenancy ends when your contract ends which is online. They are not stepping up to protect landlords. When a house is sold, the sheriff should be there as part of the closing to remove whoever is still in the property. The system is geared to make a wreck of small private landlords and private rentals. All that is left is corporate housing which can absorb most squatter costs. I am so sick of seeing corporate luxury housing taking over so many towns. It all looks the same and is the same. It is cheap tacky luxury with off gassing construction materials.
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  43. Regular family homes from the sixties that were bought for $35,000 are now selling for $625,000. Little 1,400 square foot homes on a half an acre. A mansion would be over a million dollars.
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  44. They shouldn't invite more people in when there isn't enough room for the people already there. If it is a luxury island only, then where will the workers stay? There has to be quotas on luxury building. There shouldn't be more than a certain number allowed per year and you need a permit to build them.
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  45. Human trafficking? Maybe they are taken to DUMBS and fed to reptilians.
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  46. NYC is unlivable. The police are insane. They are afraid of the criminals and want to be hipsters not law enforcers or protectors of human rights. They arrested an old woman who was shoved out of her doorway to let in squatters instead of the big, slick talking squatters. Then this Hector guy looks like a model. I guess they are so impressed with him and his business skills, they just want him lurking around the community. What was he doing with a small child with that bunch of criminals? They are selling drugs and guns and just have a child around too? That sounds suspicious also. To me squatting is you fixed up an abandoned building, made it livable, and want to stay. This is house stealing.
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  47. It is a pay to play, play to live city. If you have nothing to spend, you are not welcome. You can't use a bathroom, you can't sit on a bench, you can't lean on a wall, you can't stay near heat to get warm. If you walk around a lot and get tired, you had better have money to stop in here and there and pay to sit down. It makes it very unappealing to visit. I doubt that there are more people in the train terminals now. Who would want to go there when there are no benches, toilets, nor water fountains, and miserable dying people all around with nowhere to rest?
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  48. They buy up row houses and then the one who won't sell doesn't have a supporting wall and their house collapses.
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  49. NYC isn't a fun place to hang out anymore.
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  50. They will wind up on the sidewalk where people are trying to walk instead.
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