Impressions Anyone? Cam of Walking In New York City

[JRDelirious]

@Ann_Hedonia

I would estimate masking on the train at 60%-70%, easily more than half, but not so much that I felt like an ass for not wearing one (I didn’t even have one with me, I’ve gotten so used to being maskless).

It was much less outdoors on the street, possibly because it was outdoors.

Yep, did a recent weekend up in NYC and similar observations.

I’ve noticed a phenomenon that the general “heartland” public sort of expects NYC and life therein to be like whatever was the last big news they heard of it. In reality it adapts and catches up with whatever is the new norm damn fast.

@LSLGuy

And the accumulated filth of 150 years times umpteen million hands and feet.

As I once said in reference to the NY Subway: of course it looks rode hard and put away wet… because it has been, for a century, 24/7, except in moments of direst calamity and then only until people caught their breath, picked themselves off the floor and got their bearings back. Same for much of the city itself.

[TRC4941]

I’ve never been to NYC. I expected it to look more “New York”! It didn’t look any different than any other downtown. I expected to see more whacky outfits or more polished dressing. But it was no different than what I see every day up here in MN. It might be because of the area the footage was taken in.

[PastTense]

It covers lots of different areas–you just need to check at different times.

[ekedolphin]

Surprisingly peaceful and relaxing to watch.

[Maserschmidt]

Yes, I find them soothing as well. I went looking for other cities, but I’m a little confused by the “LIVE” label - many of them have been streaming for days or even months, but they’re clearly not “live” as of this moment…Tokyo, for example, had a nightime view (when it was early afternoon their time) on one stream, and the other was also night and had lots of Christmas decorations. I think that means they were live when filmed, but of course they were. ETA: ah, I see - they were livestreamed at one time, and they don’t lose the label later. Never mind.

In any case, I just tuned into NYC again and they were in Bryant Park, one of my favorite places there, so I’m not complaining.

[JRDelirious]

Well there has been a lot of bitching and moaning for the past 30 years about how much of it has gotten “genericizied” and lost the old “character”. But the reality is that much of NYC is and always was first of all, a big bustling commercial urban center where most people are up to business, and the same things will happen to the buildings and infrastructure and styles as anywhere else, only perhaps a year or two ahead of everywhere else. The greater part of NYC does not look particularly iconic, or glamorous, until you place it in the larger context that makes it iconic or glamorous.

[Voyager]

@WildaBeast

And there are sections of Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx where there are actual single family houses. Albeit narrow houses set close together, with maybe space for a driveway between them at most. I can only imagine the astronomical sum such houses sell for.

I grew up in Queens in a semi-attached house, with a backyard and plenty of room. We had some row houses on the next block (parking in an alley behind the house) and I delivered mail in another section of Queens one summer. Not that much different from suburban California where I live now.
The segment I just watched seemed to be in Soho or something - you could see the new WTC in one shot in the distance. Definitely not very crowded.

[Alessan]

@JRDelirious

Well there has been a lot of bitching and moaning for the past 30 years about how much of it has gotten “genericizied” and lost the old “character”. But the reality is that much of NYC is and always was first of all, a big bustling commercial urban center where most people are up to business, and the same things will happen to the buildings and infrastructure and styles as anywhere else, only perhaps a year or two ahead of everywhere else. The greater part of NYC does not look particularly iconic, or glamorous, until you place it in the larger context that makes it iconic or glamorous.

I’ve always considered the indigenous flora of New York City to be the scaffolding. The city is constantly rebuilding and renewing itself - that’s part of what makes it so special.