Remember when everyone sang, “I Love New York” and now everyone is crying about New York. Our attorney, Bobbie Anne Cox describes in her Substack below what has happened to our great state and why we need to #TakeBackNY. We need help from all New Yorkers. Make sure to continue reading the full article.
There used to be a different state here, but it is now gone. Sadly, there are hardly any remnants of it left any longer, and yet millions of us New Yorkers know that it existed, because we lived in it. Once a bastion of life, vitality, excitement and hope, the State of New York is now a crumbling shell of its once great self.”
In that New York, we almost never locked our car doors in our driveways or on our streets, we rarely locked our front doors before retiring to bed for the night, and we always slept with our windows wide open to catch a midsummer night breeze. In that New York, gentlemen smiled and tipped their hats at the ladies as they passed on the sidewalk in a show of respect, shops and offices never locked their doors during working hours, and cars hardly ever double-parked or turned left on a red light. In that New York, parents let their children bike ride unattended or roam their neighborhood for hours with friends until dusk without a second thought that their children wouldn’t return home safely in time for dinner. In that New York, you didn’t just know who your neighbors were, you actually interacted with them, had a chat over the fence, waved as you mowed your lawn, and probably even swapped spare house keys in case of an emergency. People knew their mailman’s name, their bus driver’s name, their priest or rabbi’s name, and had their State representatives’ phone number written down in their phonebook. We were a community. We were proud to call ourselves New Yorkers. Not too long ago.
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