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New York No Signs

March 10, 2006 on 2:51 pm by Thomas | In New York, Zoo York | 3 Comments

New York, they say, is one of the most liberal cities in the United States. Still, a lot of stuff is not allowed, either because the city’s administration introduced laws and reglementation (e.g. no smoking inside public buildings, no dancing without a proper license, etc) or because a lot of places are privately owned and the propietor does not want people to behave inadequately. But while e.g. UK-adminstrations or even those in California always stress the cooperative element in rules and orders (“thank you for your cooperation”) or have at least an educational approach (“we have to do this because of this”), in NYC sometimes all those signs transmitted an unfriendly or even suspicious mood to me.
I have a little collection of “No”-signs here, just to stress my observations. And if you do not agree with that perception of New York City life, feel free to discuss it here.

Maybe it has to do with 9/11 that apparently first turned all Nuyoricans in brothers and after that short phase into suspicious enemies and potential terrorists. You will find “If you see something – say something!” signs everywhere which intend to turn citizens into militia. While this seems logical for a nation that feels to be at war with a great part of the world, it is not really beneficial for a civil cooperation.

NYC No Sign

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oh wow,
a comment!
oh well, it is just your chica..

whatever.

new york would have been more fun if you weren’t all the f*cking time taking all these negatives pictures.

in any case, I am agree with you, let’s accept the fact new york is not oh so good, not oh so amazing, and I am still preferring London.
(always)

new york needs more visits,
maybe in spring of the 2007?

I despise their winter.
You won’t see me there in winter, never ever.
NEVAH EVAH.

oh well.
you never know.
I used to hate berlin the very first time.

and look at me,
all in love with the german capital.
visiting for already 6 or 7 times and even living there!

I must say though..
New York is way too far from my home.
that is something I cannot change.

it is 8,43pm here,
waiting for you to show up and spend our last weekend together.

I am going to miss you.
so much.
so much that my body will hurt.

Comment by Montse — 11/3/2006 #
hey thomas,
too bad the city was so tough on you. give it a second chance no matter what! last time i was there i ended up staying at a friend’s friend’s place who granted me asylum from a crappy 12 people men’s dorm. so i stayed in this shared appartment, the roommates being a barkeeper-but-actually-i’m-an-actor, a guy who promoted rockbands for charity and claimed that people from Georgia (the country, not the state) prefer to fuck goats, and a Georgian guy who also played in a rockband with his roommate, and who had a poster showing a goat in Georgia on his wall. Sounds weird, but it just felt very much like NYC. Urban in a nice&trashy way. And in the middle of the night you could walk a block or two to central park to go bob-sledding. new york’s just full of this kind of weird incidents, like you happen to land on a houseboat party crashing a wedding without even intending to. just stuff like that. could happen everywhere, but hardly as often as in new york. anyway, this is getting kinda long, so… but don’t give up on new york

see you back in berlin soon,
p.

Comment by pit — 15/3/2006 #
Yeah, NYC, you will see me once again, I am sure..

And I guess probability that those things happen is much bigger when you do not need to be inside all the time because outside your ears fall off.

Comment by Thomas — 15/3/2006 #