(disclaimer: I live in a private house 10000 miles from N. York. I have a garden shed in the back yard, where I (used to) store extra bags of cat food. (you can see where this is going…). One day I found a hole nibbled in the cat food on the top shelf…And the exterminator said that ain’t no mouse…you’ve got rats.
EWWW…
Took two days to kill 'em all.
Kinda unpleasant.
Well, actually, it was very unpleasant.
Me , I ain’t goin’ noplace where they warn me in advance that there are going to be rats.
But people -wise, Manhattan is probably pretty safe
Just want to point out that the answer to “Is it (Manhattan) safe?” is always proportional to the number of coffee cans full of diamonds you’re collecting.
Sorry about that, if you go to Manhattan even occasionally, you know about the Elmos and the Naked Cowboy, but I kind of forgot they’re far from common knowledge outside the area.
I spent a few years in Philly. There are areas where I wouldn’t feel safe in broad daylight and other areas that were totally fine.
A friend lived in west Philadelphia and had two cars stolen and was mugged once. I lived just a few blocks west of her, across 63rd (Landsdowne) and never encountered any crime.
You should tell your relatives that the media they are consuming is lying to them.
Manhattan is one of the safest or maybe the safest big city in America. Someone joked about rats, but I work in the city and it’s not like you really see rats every day – if you take the subway and look at the tracks every time you take it, you might see a rat or a mouse or something.
As someone else posted, it’s safer than rural America. And, midtown is even safer than the average NYC area. I suppose you might fall victim to white collar crime, but you don’t even be in the area for that to happen to you.
When I went to NYC for the first time, it was in August, and I remember being surprised by the heat in the subway…that got hotter as you went down a level. Shouldn’t have surprised me, but I was used to a/c in most public areas. I felt like I was descending into hell.
Woo hoo! We’re (L.A.) number two! Actually some of the areas with the most rats are some of the more desirable areas, like in the canyons. And beach rats can be absolutely enormous.
You’re not avoiding crime by avoiding empty subway cars–you’re avoiding the worst stink that’s ever stunk. It’s empty (or nearly so) because a homeless person who hasn’t bathed (except in his own excrement) in years has set up camp in there,
