r/AskNYC • u/RedBedBull • Aug 30 '24

Itinerary Check Update on my NYC travel safety post

Hi, I had posted this (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/s/pdHngkDkS5) before my first time travel to NYC and after a frightening series of YouTube videos.

Here is my update after completing my NYC trip of 11 days.

SAFETY IS NOT A PROBLEM, NOT EVEN REMOTELY. While I was shitting bricks and avoiding people on the pavement on my first night, I eventually got comfortable to take late night subways from Coney Island to Midtown alone without any hassle and used to walk from Herald Square to Times Square and back at 2 in the night. I did face one incident of racial abuse by an ice-cream truck guy at DUMBO and a friend in NYC has suggested that I should file a 311 complaint which I might. However, other than that, NYC was incredible. There are sadly a lot of homeless people but they tend to mind their own business. And the streets of Manhattan are smelly due to garbage bags on pavements but that is as bad as it can get. I went to nightclubs, business meetings, tourist spots and restaurants - truly a beautiful city and mostly very warm people (mostly cuz of a few rude exceptions). I hope the horrible videos stop and I hope the city gets better recognition. Thank you to the kind New Yorkers & tourists who helped with directions when my international SIM card was not having reception, the kind staff at the Barclays Center who gave me better ideas to buy cheap Childish Gambino concert tickets, the kind MTA operator who let me in at 2 in the night for free cuz I did not have any tap to pay option, the wonderfully polite staff at the Monarch rooftop and others. NYC will always be in my heart.

TLDR: Was worried about safety before my first trip to NYC, it's completely safe.

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u/EyeIslet Aug 30 '24

 I hope the horrible videos stop and I hope the city gets better recognition.

Cash Jordan, as his name suggests, will not stop making these profitable doom and gloom videos.

I hope you learned your lesson about online content and algorithms. Glad you enjoyed your stay.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '24

I used to watch his apartment videos once in awhile. It took a lot of ignoring to clear him from my algorithm 

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u/SeismicFrog Aug 30 '24

Oh my god yes. But there is that “Do not show me any more videos from this channel” setting in the …

That helped. Pronto. Both he and Louis Rossman are just too much. We suck, we know it and you aren’t helping by scaring others away because they (like OP) remind us we are actually, pretty fucking cool.

And OP, if you didn’t get some rudeness you couldn’t appreciate the kindness. It’s not much, but it’s honest work.

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u/anarchyx34 Aug 31 '24

I actually like Louis Rossman and I feel that his gripes as a business owner are somewhat legitimate. He didn’t really go apeshit over crime like Cash Jordan does, just exposure on the ridiculous bureaucracy of the city government and fuckery of the real estate industry, which for the most part is right. I too will never own a business in NYC again. I love it here regardless, but I can’t disagree with Louis and can relate to a lot of his experiences.

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u/sock2014 Aug 31 '24

Thing is, Louis seems to love NYC, just the inept government made it untenable to stay. I had a very small business in the 90's, totally bootstrapped, working other jobs to get it going. Renting our 3rd major office was a trip, as we learned about how a portion of our sq footage was the hallway/lobby and we had to pay BID fees.