NYC: A documentary of urban decay

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NYC is in the process of "reopening" - but will the businesses come back? Many were on the way out long before COVID-19, and the rate of closures & vacancies does not appear to be going down.

[@CerealOnWheels]

More videos!

[@rossmanngroup]

Can't! I don't live there or have a business there anymore!

[@blacina9036]

Next time you visit ....if you ever do....

[@MaxSixty-Three]

@@blacina9036I'd like to see him visit

[@EEVblog]

When Louis says "in the $40,000 range" I still have to wrap my head around that he means PER MONTH

[@AnthonyGoodley]

Right if it was per year it would be much easier to swallow instead of choking on the absurdly high prices.

[@orange_cat]

And we'll sell $10 cups of coffee every minute. The math works out.

[@varsityathlete9927]

I was wondering about prices in Oz, its not CBD: Park St, Sydney, NSW 2000, Retail Lease $230,000 per Year Plus GST (AUD) = 173,000USD + 10%

[@BenChilds]

In Yankee bucks!

[@zaz6463]

No joke. That literally is around my annual income.

[@agavehokage]

It's like a real life video game. Lots of buildings but nothing to enter or interact with.

[@thecatdaddy1981]

Cyberpunk ay

[@cristofersiech4692]

best comment in a while! : ]

[@choke-]

@@ThatWasPrettyFunny yet gta is more lively

[@murica7095]

@@choke- that probably has to do with the brain dead disappearing when you look away npcs LMAO

[@_jazzypants7321]

Just wait until Winter. Then NYC will be almost exactly like Division 1.

[@mws3779]

The companies that print the "For Lease" sign's business must be booming.

[@tycho_m]

during a gold rush, the people who sell shovels and pickaxes get the best return on investment

[@Ozaron]

Probably still earning nothing due to their lease agreement

[@Wahinies]

No joke, I work in IT and one of our clients is a road construction signs business and for Western colorado they are raking it in. City favorite is the classic "road closed" sign.

[@JG1995WPG]

Thank you for the laugh ♥️

[@bryanmartinez6600]

@@Wahinies Seriously Colorado road repairs are a joke. Takes months for a pothole to be fixed not sure how they want an entire railway built today.

[@matthew8153]

“That's incredible. Imagine seven million people all wanting to live together. Yeah, New York must be the friendliest place on earth.” -Crocodile Dundee

[@ittechmedicsagent4281]

Friends

[@OneAdam12Adam]

What's your point? At least our neighbors and roommates aren't our mom and dad like in your case.

[@matthew8153]

@@OneAdam12Adam I have my own house because I live in a place where land is affordable.

[@scout360pyroz]

@@OneAdam12Adam hilarious amount of bitterness in your voice. resorting to personal attacks so easily lmao. Did your family kick you out early for your bitterness?

[@andrewsartwork]

8 million now

[@Dont_13link85]

Living in East Texas, this completely blows my mind. I understand that there's a "NYC way of life" people love, but I live in a 4/2 on .8 acres, anything I could ever want to do is within an hour's drive, my mortgage is $432 a month, and my neighbors are cows.

[@rossmanngroup]

My neighbors are also cows, but I figured it's impolite for me to refer to John & Corinne that way. and here they tell me new yorkers are the mean ones....

[@SkylineFTW97]

$432/month only gets you a room to rent here in the DC area. All the really coat minded people buy land in West Virginia or Pennsylvania and commute down. Plenty even drive down to DC on a daily basis.

[@dmtenor]

@@rossmanngroup In general we refrain from calling them cows to their faces in Texas, since an armed society is a polite society.

[@nightwalkerscrypt]

$432 won't even get you a room for rent in the shittest part of Portland. I feel lucky I pay just under 700 for my apartment. But the program that keeps my rent that low is coming to an end within next few years.

[@iHaveTheDocuments]

@@nightwalkerscrypt every part of Portland is shitt. Because it's Portland.

[@leonidas14775]

This is called price stickiness. Demand has fallen but those with the supply haven't gotten desperate enough yet.

[@kraven4444]

Especially Now with things opening up. I bet they are real hopeful that things will pick up and people will start new businesses. Reality is going to set in hard when we are fully open but still no one wants these places.

[@ReivecS]

I have a feeling the siege will last long enough that prices will eventually fall. I assume there is a lot of pressure from those that do have tenets to keep the prices high so they don't have to negotiate lower prices for those businesses that never closed, otherwise they would just move.

[@alexipestov7002]

@@ReivecS Although once the prices do fall, there might be so much momentum moving in the other direction that there are flat out not enough people to even take those prices either and prevent a collapse.

[@simonausmus]

As long as the companies that own the buildings are turning a profit overall they won't relent on the prices(empty commercial real estate is a great tax write off) they will just keep them artificially inflated.

[@davidjameswales]

Yeah you might find a lot of these building literally can't lower the asked rent without huge repocusions even if they want to.

[@bigtimetimmyjim6486]

NYC landlords: The properties aren't expensive, they are priced to demand! The Demand:

[@kelvin1316]

Not just NYC, in the UK seems lots of stores are closing because of the amount being charged for rent etc.

[@freezedeve3119]

@@kelvin1316 no wonder, i live in Finland and last time i personally visited some store was 2 years ago, even my groceries come by delivery truck. So i bet sales has gone down bit on stores.

[@NiftyKnot]

@@kelvin1316 it's also business rates, towns charge more tax on retail space in a town centre, despite high streets having died to out of town competition (where the rates are cheaper), it's a death spiral.

[@uwuster]

Chase bank

[@nikoc8968]

NYC landlords have gone without payment for the last year...same with landlords in all democrat cities. they are the LAST people to blame for what you see here...

[@FELONIOUSBOLUSS]

"8 million people used to live here....now it's a ghost town." -Louis Rossman, 2022 (probably)

[@Mr.Nobody_007]

Cod

[@drink.juice.]

habeas corpus

[@dojocho1894]

the middle class had to move out of Manhattan in the 80's

[@angelo3805]

@@drink.juice. you feel me?

[@Greatanotherchannel]

Remembering a year ago louis cycling down the streets filming saying this woupd happen

[@brettdelawyer3593]

Do y’all have a link? I’m trying to find that.

[@carljackson1831]

How I discovered his channel actually!

[@TheRickJames]

Same

[@samlarsen4804]

@@brettdelawyer3593 I think they are talking about his New York real estate videos where Louis is trying to find somewhere to move his business into. He films the realtors and talks shit it's a good one.

[@lexdunmon7345]

the brown paper store is apparently thriving.

[@coweatsman]

Brown paper futures - a good investment.

[@mikek9297]

You get : A failing city I receive : Quality Snoopy murals

[@NormanF62]

People want to hide their renovation work from the city bureaucracy. If the Department of Buildings gets their way, nothing will ever get done. The cost of doing business in NY is as insane as the cost of renting business space

[@bufordmaddogtannen5164]

Made in CHI-NAH

[@liamer88]

Historians love a particular kind of person. Those who document EVERYTHING. I'm talkin daily meals, daily grind, average tasks, all that good stuff. If you want to leave a footprint on history, document your shit and protect it well. Someone'll find it eventually

[@i-never-look-at-replies-lol]

Well then thank God we have the Kardashians documenting their lifestyles for future digital anthropologists!

[@SvendleBerries]

The "protect" part is very important, as there are many people who dont like the average person knowing the truth. I mean, they keep saying that New York is "doing great" when it clearly isnt. These are the same people that complain about gun crime, yet completely ignore places like Chicago and Detroit where its an _actual_ problem. But, because its politically inconvenient, it gets swept under the rug and memory holed.

[@georgesomething]

@@i-never-look-at-replies-lol I know you are making a joke, but it's still important. Historians are interested in finding out about life in all subsets of society, including silly out of touch rich families, because you can never truly understand a society by looking at just one aspect of it.

[@packrat-y7j]

Anthropologists love it too ;)

[@checktheplaylist101]

“The purpose of history, as I see it, is to uncover the forces which move the pawns on the chess board of the world. This and only this is real history, and anything else, in the final analysis, is of no intrinsic value.” -Willis A. Carto "I had a strong suspicion there was some mysterious power at work behind the scenes controlling the actions of the figures visibly taking part in the Govt. I discovered later its source is the Judeo-Masonic combination" -Admiral Barry Domvile

[@robertw1871]

If I’m living in NYC I’m definitely looking at getting in the spray paint business.

[@SNoCappidona]

fun fact: in NYC spraypaint is locked up in glass cases to prevent theft

[@criptin4075]

@@SNoCappidona such irony lol

[@vandalion]

I'd build a business that makes window coverings

[@theninjamaster67]

Just sell large paper sheets and spray paint and you'll be set lol

[@EEVblog]

Please keep doing these videos Louis, documenting this stuff is important. And of course you know that a huge part of your audience love to see it even though most of us don't live in NY, or even the US.

[@carbsncaffeine9254]

I think it's important too, showing this stuff shows a different perspective on how the economy is really doing. I don't even live in NYC, but it's valuable to get insight into these things instead of reading numbers and stats in a news article or something.

[@hanro7430]

Its interesting to see things from other parts of the world

[@TremereTT]

I think he does the kind of poverty porn that is ethically defensible. I imagine his videos with the song "Was ist hier los" from Eisbrecher playing in the back ground.

[@xiaoka]

News flash - much of NYC has been a shithole for much of its long history. (Long by American standards). Think of the hovels of the early 1900’s with immigrants fresh off the boat from every corner of the planet. Think 1970s Harlem. Think ‘gangs of New York’. Louis may have thought that the Bloomberg years were the norm and this year is the outlier, but in fact it’s the opposite, especially with a hundred year pandemic just (hopefully) winding down.

[@spuriustadius5034]

NYC, like all mega-cities, is constantly in flux. It was far, far worse in the 70's-80's, started picking up in early 90's and has been going downhill for the last dozen or so years. The thing is, NYC has deep DEEP pockets of wealth. Those individuals, LLC's and corporations that actually own the properties which Louis has been looking at have what I call "more money than god" wealth. It came from boom real-estate and also investment banks and other finance sources that have done well since greedy 80's. These entities can probably burn money in their furnaces to stay warm in the winter and still gain wealth. The best thing that can happen is for small businesses to quit NYC (like Louis seems to be doing). Eventually there will be economic pressure to decrease rent. How long will that be? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But it _will_ change. Eventually the great gatsby's will get bored playing with NYC like it's a giant Monopoly boardgame and start selling properties to others that are more apt to lower rent and keep buildings occupied.

[@leonardodenardi3884]

"Retail for lease", the fastest growing franchise in America.

[@HC-cb4yp]

Not America; New York City. Big difference.

[@paulcolburn3855]

I really don't know what he is complaining about. The owners of the buildings are the ones who are losing. Multi-millionaires who own the buildings are not getting any rent from ANYONE if they remain vacant. Good luck making the $500K mortgage payment on your $100 mil building with no tenants. Math is math. So they are leaving? So what? That the problem for the multi-millionaires, not a problem for the homeless people on the street. If it was that bad, why build more housing if no one will live there? All that empty retail space needs to be converted INTO SOMETHING ELSE. That is the responsibility of the multi-millionaire (who owns the building) to figure that one out, not the guy roaming around with the camera looking to cause trouble. He can just leave NYC if he is that upset about it. Just leave. Ex-patriate yourself from the city sir. No need for all the f-bombs or complaints. It isn't politics that Amazon.com has ended retail in NYC.

[@leonardodenardi3884]

@@paulcolburn3855 I think he is talking about the people who leased the spaces to make a living having a business. Hundreds of entrepeneurs who tried to build a dream and were crushed during the pandemic, and will now have to live with the debt left behind. And also the employees, to some extent. I'm pretty sure Louis is not concerned about the building owners.

[@paulcolburn3855]

@@leonardodenardi3884 I agree he is not concerned about the building owners. But the business owners, they didn't lose their business because of covid. Retail was dead LONG BEFORE covid. Amazon killed retail, not covid. This is just Amazon and the information age defeating any reason for living an urban lifestyle. Small business owners do not open retail shops in NYC. The small business owner hasn't opened retail in the city in 4 or 5 decades. The small business owner opens a conveinence store, restaurant, or a coffee shop, not retail. All the retail shops closed, they were just a small branch of a huge retail chain that is now dying or dead. That is corporate money (H&M, Del Sol, Big Dogs, etc) being crushed/eaten by other corporate money (Amazon.) For the restaurants and bars and coffee shops closing, well, yeah that is also too bad. But I'm not sure covid is to blame for that. Restaurants in my part of the country are doing so well, that there is a help wanted sign in every window. Pizza delivery guys are getting $250 sign on bonuses. Its nuts out there. Covid didn't ruin them. They've recovered. Honestly, I think he's just p1ssed that he spends so much money to live in NYC and now (for whatever reason) the many places he took for granted in living there, those places are gone and he has no where to go. So he's just angry and ranting. There are probably very logical reasons why the restaurants and coffee shops closed (I'm thinking crime more than covid.) We have a law enforcement shortage at the moment, particularly in the inner cities. I wouldn't open a restaurant in NYC either.

[@leonardodenardi3884]

@@paulcolburn3855 Now I get your point about the stores. Thanks!

[@Flowo]

Feels like the old PS2 / Gamecube Spider Man games. City full of buildings and store fronts but you could only walk in like 1% of them.

[@GameplayCrush]

lmao you're so right, who would have thought those games would get more realistic the more they age 🤣

[@Methodius93]

😂 Totally right. Old GTA games too haha

[@itsdavefrommarketing5935]

Thats probably the best way to describe it

[@KingLarbear]

So ps4 gta v then lol

[@iainh]

I used to find it funny that Glasgow is used as a filming location substitute for NYC. Watching Louis' video really made it clear why, they both seem to have the same level of dirt and grime, homelessness, graffiti, and have grid based layouts. They are a good match for each other and both have their own unique identity.

[@davisdesigns1153]

*The new "I am Legend" movie set looks sick*

[@semosurvivalist]

You ain't right 🤣

[@Kaito-jr]

The new Fallout game looks incredible

[@fallingwater]

I mean, some of the graffiti textures are pretty nice, but other than that the palette is terrible - it looks like when CoD started being all in shades of brown except even more depressing.

[@klontjespap]

16 times the detail

[@BOBXFILES2374a]

That was funny!

[@MrDelord39]

Looks pretty dead to me :D

[@woodymd1]

Bethesda finally upgraded the graphics

[@railfan_3371]

"Pile of radioactive rubble: $200,000 monthly, open to division"

[@nullvoid564]

whats the location like and how radioactive are we talkin'?

[@nullvoid564]

@@funnyarc You cant be forthright with that one you need to softball the owner, you cant haggle as well if they know you know its valuable especially if they dont know its true value

[@SchkuenteQoostewin]

That is what it is!

[@whirled_peas]

Open to fission, surely

[@andreamitchell4758]

Not open to division It IS "The Division" now

[@SpeciesUnknown]

A KZbinr who has humility and grace for not filming the homeless 💚🌍🌍🌍

[@varsityathlete9927]

louis you should sell that brown paper for store windows, looks like there is a growing demand

[@chasedogman2032]

As a kid, I wanted to move to NYC. I always thought I was just too stupid to make enough money to live there, now I'm wondering if I'm just a poor genius who dodged a bullet.

[@davidcharles4886]

You would be a genius if you made enough money but CHOSE not to live there.

[@bigpoppahonch]

Nothing good in NYC , only getting worse. I guess NYC is nice if youre from like Nuckitaw Tennessee or som shit Yeah dodged a bullet? You basically put the gun down from your temple LOL 😂 sources: 22yrs TOO long here

[@thekeyandthegate4093]

@@bigpoppahonch As someone from bumfuck nowhere Tennessee myself, this video opened my eyes to just how dilapidated and mismanaged it looks. I'd still choose it over LA, but as poverty stricken as we are down here, I still think I'd prefer it where I am.

[@mikewallis2987]

Trust funders

[@farmboytom2]

NO, Sounds like you need a welcome wagon and a coupon book. NYC aint like that. Go to a Jesus state for the welcome wagon and church brochures. You gotta make your own apartment door sign, nobody is going to do it for you. Maybe you are not man enough to handle it.

[@genzo53]

My "almost" third world Eastern European country, where a third of the population lives below poverty line, looks livelier than that. NYC looks straight out of a post apocalyptic movie.

[@macktheripper7454]

Where do you live? Just interested

[@genzo53]

@@macktheripper7454 Bulgaria

[@BuzzingGoober]

A product of leftism

[@M4TTYN]

wish i could see empty manhattan such a rare sight.

[@begur11]

@@BuzzingGoober no a product of capitalism

[@AZOffRoadster]

Imagine the game of Monopoly where the winner of the game gets to keep all their money and property for the next game, and you have no choice but to play.

[@BarbaraMerryGeng]

Great analogy

[@somekindofusername]

oh god OH GOD

[@lonniedobbins1195]

The results will be nobody is going to play! *I have no problems cutting off greed.* This is the results of Conservatives' "Free Trade Agreements". Shipping Jobs Out Of The Country Due To Racism And Profits, Greed. NO JOBS? NO WORKERS! NO WORKERS? NOBODY TO SPEND MONEY IN THOSE STOREFRONTS! You can't sell fast-food to fast-food workers. We also have the underlying genocidal conspiracy among Europeans And Their Allies. People who think they're entitled to all the world's resources, and have the right to enslave other people. *They thought they was still in the 15th and 16th century!* *That The People Are The Same As They Were 500 To 600 Years Ago!* That the world is the same as many years ago. The more the vacancies? The more worthless they become. The cash flow is not there anymore. No real middle class incomes. No surplus 3rd Class Incomes. $30,000 - $100,000.

[@jf9979]

Its capitalism as it was designed. Winner takes all, money above all else.

[@jf9979]

@AntiCringe thats what capitalism becomes. Humans simply cannot be trusted with managing any system of distribution. Imagine we play monopoly and I owned the monetary system and you start with nothing. If you dont play, you go to jail. If you do play, you lose.

[@reaktorleak89]

"Getting a permit for anything in NYC will take many many months and cost tens of thousands of dollars." Sounds like organized crime.

[@BIGGS1]

Well no just bloated bureaucracy

[@rise_and_reborn4048]

@@BIGGS1 Very Simaliar though, just that its the government doing it

[@mortsnerd5100]

@@BIGGS1 Same thing

[@mortsnerd5100]

@@TheTillmanSneakerReview My father tells me the mafia gave better odds on their numbers racket than the government does.

[@h8GW]

@@rise_and_reborn4048 With Cuomo as its Godfather.

[@blueskascene]

I am an architect and used to live at 26th and 6th Ave. My rent was insane. I used to do commercial white box interior alterations for landlords, and knew the kind of money they made. My wife and I escaped NYC on March 11, 2020 because we could see the lockdowns coming. We moved to a large western state and have never been happier. We came back in June 2020 after the riots to check on the state of things, and we were happy with our decision to leave. I’ll never move back to NYC. The happy and fun times are over. Now we can afford a house, and can start a family. Leaving NYC was the best thing to ever happen to us.

[@nyfrankie9460]

Please don’t vote for the same policies in your new home state. Too many people do just that.

[@hecatrice2064]

@@nyfrankie9460 A different state will have different politicians, no?

[@nyfrankie9460]

Yes maybe but there are so many levels of gov down to condo and block associations. Someone shows up and says it’s oppressive to enforce noise restrictions after 10. After all noise doesn’t hurt anyone, right? Remember the urine stink on every street in NY before Giuliani? The broken windows? And when he said no more ? After all who are broken windows and urine hurting (?). Yes this was said and it enraged some. I’m sorry and not at all implying anything about you but one would hope that the everything goes mentality would stay where it is or learn from the past.

[@honkhonk8009]

@@hecatrice2064 They will. What ppl mean is dont vote for the same policies that were used in NYC.

[@BrokenCircle1]

Large western state? Wyoming?

[@nocuh]

Seeing that graffiti on shuttered businesses, it’s like the 1980s in hd without any of the fresh and vibrant music

[@Menaceblue3]

Looking for beatboxing homies breakdancing!

[@nocuh]

@@Menaceblue3 it’s unfortunate there really wasn’t any street scene to speak of

[@TremereTT]

@@Menaceblue3 Like in the movies where they put a peace of plastic or rubber on the ground to make their moves.

[@jojodroid31]

for how expensive NYC is, it's incredible how dirty and bad the streets look

[@mossadon]

@@TremereTT Lino (Linoleum) or cardboard. Rubber ? Dude, we needed to spin on that stuff, not burn our skin off trying to ! ;) Anyone interested in the nostalgia of those films, check out the movie that spread the culture worldwide, Wildstyle which shows the culture jus before it exploded told by and with the people who made it and Beat Street which was made as more people were aware of Rap and Hip Hop culture. Both set in NY. NOT Breakin ! Although the soundtrack is great, that's a pure Hollywood movie. Fun Factoid: Beat Street was produced by the guy who started the 420 smoking movement).

[@wolfgang2453]

This whole city looks like the shopping mall in the next town over. There are maybe 4 or 5 stores in the mall that haven't closed yet, only 2 restaurants in the food court. It's just depressing walking through there now

[@sorry542]

Oh hey Jerald.

[@wolfgang2453]

@@sorry542 Hello. Am I wrong tho it looks just like it lol

[@legoboy-ox2kx]

Where is that? I actually want to find some empty malls to try and host a large event called HvZ

[@sntx1000]

That's what I was thinking while watching the video. I can't believe NYC resembles one of the nearly empty malls in my town.

[@TheMattTrakker]

I love those youtube videos. It's sad because I still remember the malls being a thing from when I was younger.

[@DeathBringer769]

"If there was any less urban decay, you couldn't afford it." -- Eugene

[@jimmythecrow]

thats the lie they want you to believe

[@timmynator2002]

Someone told me a few years ago, that most of the scaffolding you see in New York isn't there for building work. It's there too stop people being injured by bits falling off the buildings, because they're in such poor shape!

[@DouglasTimes]

After seeing the building collapse in Miami, that would not surprise me. I am very skeptical of high-rise architecture after that event

[@p2p104]

@@DouglasTimes Same here. Many high rises been built very quick in past 10 years. Quality is very sceptical.

[@Hemuset]

@@DouglasTimes several of our buildings are being evacuated now after that initial collapse. People have been complaining here for years about the deteriorating state of buildings, but all the owners would say is "Yeah okay, we'll look into it!" And do nothing. It took the death of a bunch of innocent people to get laws changed quickly, and passed. It's why I tell people not to come to Miami, our infrastructure has been deteriorating and no one's doing anything about it. Such a drastic change from what it was shown to be on the back at my home country where I was from.

[@DouglasTimes]

@@Hemuset I hate to hear that. It seems like deteriorating infrastructure is all too common a theme throughout too much of this great country.

[@markmurto]

100 years ago people said, this will last 100 years!. So they built it to last that long, and here we are.

[@djsherz]

As a Brit, I came over here with a friend in the summer of '99 to spend my 21st birthday in NY. Did it on the cheap, staying in youth hostels for a couple of weeks - mostly at the Chelsea International hostel. Back then it was such a vibrant place - people, traffic, street vendors, a deli on every corner, basically it delivered what every movie based around New York had been promising me for years. What a shame to see what it has become now. All I can say is that I'm glad we visited when we did.

[@PT94x]

Same story with me and Florida. Went in 2000 with my dad, mum and brother to visit some family we have over there. Wouldn't want to go now with the opiate epidemic and the effect it's had on people's mental health. One of my cousin's who lives over there has been swallowed up by it. It's tragic. Society is decaying and regular people like my cousin are falling victim to it.

[@nonya13]

@@PT94x What part of Florida? Not all of Florida is like that.

[@PT94x]

@@nonya13 Tampa

[@nonya13]

@@PT94x Gotcha. Understood.

[@bcarras8722]

Glad you got to see it in better says

[@Avilnetro]

Hey man, just wanted to say thanks for giving that homeless person $20 bucks. A rare virtue to see in this day and age.

[@lukaboy7335]

You are a good man

[@luistorres-bj1po]

This is actually so tragic and shows the system imploding on itself in real time. This will be precious documentation of the impacts of the pandemic in the future. Thanks for the footage Ross!

[@Mattdotnfo]

Impacts of both the pandemic and an outrageously inflated real estate market.

[@bbgun061]

These problems existed long before the pandemic. They may be worse now. Just remember: the pandemic did nothing by itself. The government overreaction to the pandemic caused all the damage.

[@MrWolfSnack]

@@bbgun061 The pandemic was vastly overreacted and overblown. I did not get my shot until just last week and I never once got sick, and I was out in stores 3 times a week.

[@arieson7715]

@@MrWolfSnack Why'd you get a shot then?

[@MrWolfSnack]

@@arieson7715 Because you have to, to be able to get into the stores and get the shit done that I need to get done. A lot of stores around here want vax proof to get into the store without a mask. That's the only reason I got it. And yes I did get sick from it. I had a sore throat and mucousy type throat and nose issues as well as a sore and totally weak arm for 2 days.

[@SpiraSpiraSpira]

It’s funny. The leasers are willing to let a spot go without a lease for years at a time because if they drop the price the whole house of cards will start to implode.

[@gypsonny2]

Dropping the price wont change anything. Black Lives Matter made it clear they don't want commerce. Too much liability to run a business in the dystopian hell hole

[@almond5560]

Probably because of laws that make it difficult to raise prices back again after the pandemic ends and/or evict people who can't afford the new rent once they eventually raise them back up. Just speculation, I don't know if those laws exist. I also ain't saying it's not greedy.

[@vogelvogeltje]

@@gypsonny2 funny, you don’t hear too much about BLM now that the new boogeyman is CRT

[@SpiraSpiraSpira]

@@almond5560 I believe it is because the high rent prices are the only thing justifying the high property values. If they lower the rents they “lose value” in the property, of which they’re probably mortgaged on which might result in them going upside down in the mortgage - i.e. they bought a building for $15 mil but now it is only worth $10m. So they’d rather lose money, they think “temporarily”, than risk lowering rent prices which they suspect might never return to their previous levels.

[@almond5560]

@@SpiraSpiraSpira Makes lots of sense. Thanks!

[@rixille]

"You will own nothing and you will be happy."

[@mikewallis2987]

They got the 1st 1/2 right at least!!

[@gbjanuary]

@@mikewallis2987 you will own nothing and be miserable 😂

[@SalikUlHaqq]

I wonder if my predecessors understand the reference....

[@loganquakenbush2155]

Dont use quotes of things you dont understand this is the exact thing they want to fix. Hoarding of wealth and goods by the very top like this

[@PreggoJohn]

Landlords: haha yeah I own stuff so I will be happy...right...?

[@futureshock382]

Nothing a little "I ❤️ NY" merchandise cant fix

[@ralphmcmahan2139]

Made in China.

[@MissAprilCakes]

@@ralphmcmahan2139 🤣🤣🤣 That part lol

[@ethakis]

It's so painful because you can still see echoes of what people have always said make NYC so amazing.

[@CHADCZ123]

I live outside St. Louis and I have the same feelings.

[@wtp7631]

Exactly my thought

[@joemac84]

Hahahaha this has been happening for YEARS it’s just accelerating. You haven’t spent time in New York or you’re oblivious

[@PeterDivine]

I guess we're seeing very, very different echoes, then. People dropping graffiti on abandoned property like it's open canvas, property leasers who will lie about a place's market demand and desirability to rush people into purchases for overpriced properties, trash openly left on sidewalks because their owners can't be arsed to find a trash can, people unable to film dogs because the women who are walking them will accuse them of being perverts trying to catch them on film... these do not "echo" an "amazing" city, they echo a reason I will actively avoid ever working in D.C. if possible. Cities have a fantastic way of cultivating the spoiled, the corrupt, pretentious, the manipulative, and the just plain _mean_ and somehow excusing all of it as just "part of the culture." NY can fucking writhe in it, and their pizza's shit, too.

[@osazeelegemah2354]

I see the echoes of pretentious Assholes and the poor workers that had to serve them.

[@punzada]

"Not my business but the doors open...so fuck it" I'm dying laughing

[@rohithkumarsp]

At what time code does this happen?

[@gary8847]

@@rohithkumarsp Same Question

[@BillyButcherUSA]

12:10

[@NonyaDamnbusiness]

Wall Street: "New York City's retail sector is doing fine!" [Rossman Repair Group has entered the chat]

[@Jourei_]

Brüh. Two S, two N.

[@AstonGryffynn]

Real Estate being accessible to all income groups means it's doing terrible as per the suits @ Wall Street.

[@jbbresers]

So much is now owned by such a small group of people & companies (vulture funds) that the empty space doesn't bother them, it's just a tax write off. The only thing they care about is keeping the yield high and that means that they will not drop prices. If a building starts to decay because it's been vacant for so long it's the perfect opportunity to knock it down and build some fish bowls (luxury apartments in the heart of the city)

[@bermudezhg]

Wall Street also said Leman Brothers is a fine investment, the day before it fell = A Propaganda sustained economy

[@Doctom91]

@openworld poland This IS capitalism.

[@monographicmonologues]

Respect for not filming you donating some money to the homeless! Crazy that I should have to say that, but yeah it's almost the norm for youtubers to have to film them helping the homeless and make a whole song and dance about it. Truly tragic and very vexing situation in NYC... as that mayoral candidate said ~10 years ago : "The rent is too damn high!"

[@GlidingZephyr]

I'm a bit late to reply, but, I've lived in Phoenix, AZ for the last couple of years before deciding to move back to my hometown. I can honestly say that the symptoms of urban decay are happening in every major city, and that New York City is only the worst example of the lot. In Phoenix, during the short time I lived there, I watched my rent raise from $780 to $1,250 per month for a one bedroom apartment in one of the North valley ghettos. As soon as COVID-19 reached pandemic status, the two homeless people who lived in the park at night multiplied to over thirty in a month. Then, after enough people were fully vaccinated and everything began to return to normal, every other apartment complex closed their doors to new tenants so they could squeeze more money from desperate people who didn't want to be thrown onto the streets. Our economy and society are both broken and have been for at least 35 to 40 years, by now. When I was rehired at the factory when I came back home, I found a skeleton crew working there and only half of the familiar faces I knew remained, after last year's layoffs. And they can't keep new employees even after they've reinstated the pension program. That one blew my mind until I realized that being on unemployment is now more profitable than working for a living.

[@james5460]

This isn't normal btw. The entire area has gone drastically downhill in the last decade. All of those stores used to be open and empty storefronts were a rarity. It's very sad what has happened to Manhattan recently.

[@Robbedem]

normally that should be countered by owners dropping rent prices, but as mentioned in an earlier video, that's often not possible because of how the loans are structured. (basicly reducing the rent, forces the owners to pay the bank a lot of money)

[@NechamaGluck]

Davos, bezos, citigroup, the dnc, and tech monopolies happened

[@Voltaic_Fire]

It's the new normal, a junk heap with delusions of grandeur.

[@sab0403]

@@dertythegrower it's increasingly not just the poor getting priced out.

[@americanhero8606]

@@Robbedem That's not a good reason, just an excuse. Landlords can always seek restructuring if they are becoming insolvent. Banks don't want to write off such massive amounts of their outstanding loans.

[@ThomasKeller1]

"I'm confident the only thing they're rubbing is your foot and your back." - Louis, that made my day! Awesome piece!

[@mechanicallycreative9788]

I'm confident he's right; they did go out of business.

[@LordSandwichII]

"They're not hookers! They're massage therapists!" *Sniffle

[@raaspider]

@@mechanicallycreative9788 hahaha good observation, if they did extras they be open lol

[@seanlarry6095]

I was watching that portion as I was reading your comment. I’m uncertain whether you ruined or enhanced the experience.

[@PWN_Nation]

More than anything, buildings decay even more quickly when nobody is there to identify problems as soon as they occur...

[@TheLegendInYou]

Buildings are alive. When people move out they die.

[@coweatsman]

@@TheLegendInYou People are the soul of a building.When they exit, like the spirit leaving a body, the building becomes a corpse, prone to decay from low life.

[@InspectorSplatter]

Doesn’t building decay kind of make it more expensive too for the owners because of repair costs?

[@mickolesmana5899]

@@coweatsman my teacher at some point told me this

[@Joshua_Bee]

Didn't hear a single "I'm walking here!!" I feel cheated...

[@MissAprilCakes]

LoL

[@tekc0der]

I'm waukin' here ***

[@Caydiem]

6k a month just to live in a neighborhood full of piss, garbage and graffiti. What a good gig that must be.

[@randomness4989]

who the hell even makes that much money a month to afford it tho,new york must be some money laundering city if not

[@FamiliarAnomaly]

@@randomness4989 that's always been the relationship there though, the artists feed off wall street like that fish that follows the shark

[@thunderjumper7958]

It’s like they took “supply and demand” and just said away with that, and made up their own fake demand to make it seem like everything is highly desired.

[@alistairblaire6001]

Banks have been doing it to houses for years. They own the houses but don't sell them so the other homes in the vicinity sell for higher. I suspect with the post-covid economy they'll play this game even harder.

[@santiagoeltoma5122]

@@alistairblaire6001 until the city colapse

[@Flowmaster925]

i picture the plate throwing meme

[@Dynemanti]

Yeah, notice how many of the signs are from the same few companies/agencies. Then think on the fact that there is almost 40 times as many empty homes as their are homeless people, for almost a decade if not much much longer.

[@nolightescapeshere]

I think I saw you in Union Square today! You were on the phone so I didn’t bother you, big fan & was happy to see ya

[@rossmanngroup]

I was livestreaming a looney tunes on the other live channel. Were you there while the crazy person was yelling about Obama and Kenya?

[@cunnyhunter69]

@@rossmanngroup yes obama and kenya is that normal in nyc?

[@nolightescapeshere]

@@rossmanngroup I was, my favorite was when the guy started saying we were all entitled to free land as Americans, but was also raving about us becoming a communist nation. Love it. Just like you said, they have some good ideas and then they take it beyond reason.

[@skliros9235]

@@rossmanngroup what's your other channel?

[@rossmanngroup]

@@skliros9235 kzbin.info/door/6nZlvfz4YWoBWbjiaYJA3g

[@GSCSTRYDER]

This is extremely haunting because I used to live in CT, and visited NYC frequently, especially in 2019 it was very vibrant and happening, and now two years later it is so sad.

[@traolin5877]

Damm, hearing him saying stuff like “this is smaller than my bathroom” or “half the size of my living room” really puts into perspective how poor I am when I pause to look at the space

[@ColinOYoung]

Yeah, was thinking the same

[@esvegateban]

He's being hyperbolic.

[@denniscorvin415]

@@esvegateban They're poor in our view. If my land were in NYC, thousands of people would live here instead of just me. I have five buildings I put up myself and I have never filed a single permit, no inspections, no codes, no zoning... complete freedom.

[@protolight1654]

Dont tear yourself down like that brah Your ok

[@rwdplz1]

So the only thing left is Taco Bell? Demolition Man predicted the future again

[@usernamehere2124]

Someone say, “rat burger”?

[@OliverSalva]

Three seashells for sale!

[@andreamitchell4758]

That is really funny because I always remembered it as Taco Bell too , but I recently rewatched the movie and to my surprise it was actually another YUM brand , Pizza Hut

[@kristopher5lake]

🤣🤣😭😭

[@arrgghh1555]

@@andreamitchell4758 Taco Bell was the US release, Pizza Hut international release cause no one outside the US had heard of taco bell.

[@SultanOfAwesomeness]

I used to go to school in this area-a block down from the ‘fishbowl’ building he was talking about earlier. It was just a few years ago but it’s depressing to see how much it’s changed.

[@farmboytom2]

It i the airbnb problem. These fake motels need to pay higher taxes because they increase the cost of services to people who actually live there who are getting squeezed out by the housing flippers.

[@gravekeepersven82]

@@farmboytom2 Blackrock x Vanguard is starting to get aggressive lately.

[@bschuler6216]

Wow! Thanks for posting this Louis. I live in Brooklyn, but have hardly bothered going into Manhattan in the past year and four months. I maybe went in 6 times, which is crazy as I used to go in about 6 times a week. It looks bad. Brooklyn and Queens seem to have come back to a much greater degree of normalcy. But Manhattan is a rotting carcass of what it used to be. Something has to be done about the price to lease a square foot of Manhattan. It's been outrageous for far too many years. With most buyers and sellers content to do their business online, the city needs to incentivize brick and mortar businesses. $40,000 a month for the privilege of renting someone else's space is unsustainable, especially for unique mom & pop shops that make the city special, rather than the same old soulless corporate chains. Then you wonder why everything is so damn expensive, and why there are so many tourist traps. Well it's because you have to make $40,000 every month before you can even think about turning a profit.

[@K64250]

Someone should make a Louis Rossman video game. He sprints around the city with his cats trying to find affordable rent and fighting politicians.

[@mrmaniac3]

It should 1000% be run on the GTA San Andreas game engine

[@jeraldjoyce2995]

Fighting politicians with words or his fists

[@mini-_]

you get a temporary power-up that makes you go faster, an e-bike. it's a temporary power-up, because at some point the battery in it decides to explode

[@hansw.3094]

@@jeraldjoyce2995 why not both?

[@jeraldjoyce2995]

@@hansw.3094 I like your attitude.

[@JachymorDota]

What a time when even money laundering stores are closing due to bad Business. :/

[@user-pe2yx9kt4e]

Lol

[@rainypath96]

Examples of these stores? I’m curious

[@JachymorDota]

@@rainypath96 Haha sorry, this was an exaggeration. In Berlin, I notice many stores which never have customers, but are always open, so I assume these only launder money. In the videos, I didn't even see this kind of shops.

[@davidbagley1783]

Exactly

[@Nikolajnen]

@@JachymorDota Oh, that definitely happens in NYC as well.

[@HJohal]

The permit thing is 100% accurate. My uncle had agreed to a price and filed for the super $$$ permits, it took 9 months and by then prices were doubled. Since then he moved his business to Long Island as there's at least some foot traffic.

[@LittleMissLurker]

God, his quick, witty commentary is so hilarious despite the depressing imagery xD

[@dil6969]

NYC: slowly rotting Graffiti artists: "It's free real-estate."

[@TKDBoy1889]

In this case it's literally free real estate too. For them at least.

[@shidcat9322]

Degenerate artists

[@angelozararis8096]

That's why I call it the rottin apple overrated overtaxed over populated.

[@paulsuprono7225]

@@angelozararis8096 Over everything . . . OMG ! 😬

[@Max_Ohm]

You get a +1

[@rick.mz29]

I've been here 3 decades. New York has been on a steady decline for as long as I can remember, this shut down was the death blow and frankly, no one that has lived here actually cares enough about it's future for there to be a turnaround. The mass exodus is just the beginning and I only see the streets and living conditions becoming worse as time progresses.

[@joblo497]

Abandon City ..everybody over the side The bees have all left the hive

[@derekgiacomini]

Truthfully bro I see some bad shit POTENTIALLY happening for the US GEOPOLITICALLY in nxt 6 months to a year.. ECONOMICALLY in the next 2 to 5 months and socially in the next 3.. idk just a gut feeling

[@jaysefgames1155]

Inb4 they vote for the same politicians who caused this when they move somewhere else

[@rick.mz29]

@@jaysefgames1155 this man knows. Insanity running rampant

[@Avenus112]

I get this curious sense that every single day of its history, New York has seen better days.

[@Menaceblue3]

I was watching "world trade center" on Netflix to waste time on the holiday.... I felt like early 2000's NYC was so vivid in my memory that I almost cried remembering those days.

[@AelfricBlack]

Hell, I’ve never been to nyc and even I feel sorry for the city after seeing it so often in so many movies and games and shows growing up…

[@mauro_o_cesar]

@@Menaceblue3 I guess the o lot time New York had a good day was for about 8 days in September in 2001

[@M4TTYN]

*the world seen better days* pre covid times was a odd "normal" too.

[@therealnotanerd_account2]

@Mark Guerrera NYC had a rough time in the 70s and Ed Koch was able to turn the situation around (in a time when democrats weren't totally crazy), So in theory it can see better days in future. I have been to NYC a decade ago and it was an amazing city. I stayed in Harlem in a cheap B&B and I felt really safe there. It is amazing how much damage bad politics can do in so little time. I hope your are wrong, that the city will never recover. But it would take several years to get it back on track, if possible,

[@lukehamburg]

"The city's re-opening!" they said "It's gonna be great!" they said.

[@allister-malister9179]

And now this new strain… it’s fukin insane

[@eduardochavacano]

Samantha Jones has left though.

[@felipemontoya2558]

"De Blasio is a heroe" they said "Is fun to be progressive" they said

[@dojocho1894]

now only for the 3rd jab...soon to be the fourth and on and on......

[@Dajudge06]

"14 days to slow the spread" They said.

[@StrategyJoe]

The upside is that traffic is bearable now

[@Cerealzen]

I wouldnt say so, since COVID hit/crime rose, everyone(who could afford it) started driving instead of using the subway... Traffic is a LOT worse than it used to be, NYC even beat LA for the worst traffic in the country for 2020 !

[@JJ-Toreddie]

Traffic decreases with a equal increase in crime.

[@lancercncs1822]

@@Cerealzen Traffic in NYC has always been worse than in LA, at least within the city limits... just more people in NYC.

[@SethWistful]

This looks like the dead downtowns of many Midwestern small cities. No people even at peak hours, lots of empty storefronts "under construction" or for lease, and graffiti everywhere.

[@imreallydamntired]

but the difference is this is nyc. thats saying something bout how the citys doin

[@SethWistful]

@@imreallydamntired definitely, that's what's so messed up.

[@AlexSchwartzATV]

in STL, can confirm lol. middle of the week day downtown theres barely cars on the roads. in the "financial" downtown area at dinner time, most restaurants are empty.

[@Antoinevdlb]

Honestly it's not like this everywhere.... I live in NYC and this block has to be worse than most

[@grndzro777]

I live in Reno and life is really returning to normal. Most people are vaccinated, or pretend they are vaccinated, and stores are pretty busy, and the job market is slowly returning to normal....well at least for everyone but Amazon, and Urban Outfitters because they are so bad that Amazon is offering 1K bonus, and double overtime respectively because everyone willing to work there has already been fired, or quit.

[@DhigitalPakRhatt]

I now understand the independent guy who ran on the "Rent is too damn high" campaign slogan.

[@DarkSymphony777]

He was a phophet. We made him a meme instead

[@noneofyourbusiness1114]

Who was this?

[@curtbalch2321]

@@noneofyourbusiness1114 Jimmy McMillan!!!

[@BlueisNotaWarmColour]

Rent control made rent prices higher. Funny how that works

[@BlueisNotaWarmColour]

@asdrubale bisanzio price controls were absolutely the most significant factor.

[@matthewfraney9108]

Former new yorker here. Moved back home to Wisconsin during the financial crisis and haven't missed living there, although happy to visit. Glad I didn't have to endure the Bill DiBlasio era of leadership.

[@alexG106]

"'facemask required' to enter the dead, empty business." Brutal haha

[@warden-sisyphus5554]

Lol, maybe you ACTUALLY need a facemask because of the state of the interior xP

[@GorgyCL]

That one's actually alive though: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3TUo4OFpL92fdk& at 1:34

[@ar6888]

I'm not sure you realize how important documenting this with footage really is. Please go back and do more, in depth and take a count & provide stats. You're uncovering something many people are ignorant to.

[@Blashmack]

I absolutely agree. I'm not from the US and content like this is incredibly fascinating and allows you to see beneath the surface.

[@aquarius5719]

In a few years this will be a historical doc. Copy this video into an SD card locked in a safety box to use as time capsule.

[@OPTIMUSL1ME]

@@dertythegrower based

[@kevinmclarkey621]

@@dertythegrower lmaoo ur the kinda guy to let ur best friend and gf have alone time upstairs in the house for 3 hours a day every day

[@humer1971]

This isn’t Sex in the City anymore, Sad in the City.

[@eyestoenvy]

"HEXED is the City"

[@bakkouz]

The title is actually "And the city" not "In the city" :)

[@Supreme_Lobster]

More like "The City Fuck*d me in the Ass"

[@blandeauxfillaskii7344]

@@Supreme_Lobster "The Democrats Did What They Do"

[@MattGPT-eh4cp]

@@blandeauxfillaskii7344 Coming soon to a neighborhood near you......thanks Democrats......

[@oceanwater6887]

Naming a property leasing company leviathan is so fitting for an giant evil corporation

[@Guy_LastName]

i interviewed there in fall 2019...place was sketchy lol

[@danielblue4460]

Only people with background in Christianity understand this.

[@chrism8180]

@@danielblue4460 Or anyone willing to Google it to learn something.

[@josephhertzberg2734]

To be honest, something really changed in the city after the collapse of 2008. So many empty retail spaces, and what came after was more boring chain stores and never ending gentrification and condos. You always hear from past generations that things were better in NY before, but a fundamental change happened after 2008.

[@DrLuau]

Yeah: real estate trusts bought the top and have been delusionally bagholding for going on 13 years.

[@umiluv]

Everything comes back to the 2009 bailouts. Everything.

[@riotdrone]

every crisis allows the largest corporations and the wealthy to consolidate more and more, a ton of the small businesses that failed because of the pandemic will be replaced with more chain stores and the wealthy will keep getting wealthier while everyone else gets poorer

[@courtneye4789]

Ive never been to NYC, so all I have to go off of are old movies and TV shows. This really puts things into perspective, thanks for sharing!

[@earlaweese]

*It’s an extremely gross, dismal, and dangerous city. Don’t go there if you care about the USA. New Yorkers generally don’t give a shit about the USA or their fellow citizen - homelessness wouldn’t exist otherwise.*

[@johnyepthomi892]

New York is basically a prop now.

[@KnifeInTheSnow]

you know its bad when the banks can't make ends meet

[@JayAndNightASMR]

Sadly a lot of landlords would rather have an empty space, rather than helping out business and adjusting their prices.

[@neilbratton2543]

No they wouldn’t. “Landlords would rather lose money than make money”

[@goosedeathable]

Landlords still have their minimum costs too. But something must be better than nothing I would think. Could have something to do w/ liabilities and getting rid of tenets if a full paying tenet comes along.

[@MikkoRantalainen]

@@goosedeathable I agree. I would assume it would make sense to rent the space for cheap for short contracts. You'd have to accept pretty low rent compared to normal situation but things are not normal right now.

[@h.p.dominocus]

NY is starting to look the way it used to in 80s horror movies.

[@lpk6372]

I'm curious where you say you live?

[@h.p.dominocus]

@@lpk6372 NJ. I'm just saying, the blocks of empty buildings and graffiti shown in this video reminds me of how NY was depicted on film in the 80's. It's interesting.

[@lpk6372]

@@h.p.dominocus NJ... It all makes sense now

[@Proseless]

NYC in the 1970s was a hellhole. Bronx was on fire, blackouts, gangs, and Times Sq was a redlight district. But man, do I wish it was that time again.

[@h.p.dominocus]

@@Proseless It does seem like NYC is going back to its "roots' as they say. I didn't grow up in NY but stayed with my aunt sometimes in the Bronx in late 90's. All I know is 80's and early 90's films seem to accurately depict NYC in that era from what I heard other people say who lived there. Could be wrong though.

[@Patraquashe]

As I was thinking to myself "What a shithole..." Louis goes ahead and says the exact word. I know NY isn't exactly known for being cleanly and pristine but the stuff you show is fucking depressing.

[@justethical280]

Yeah, why do people pay 5K a month to life in New York ? Just because of the name ? Wouldn't life there for free. I pay 600 a month and live in The Netherlands with beautifull scenery and water around me and a lot of green and places to walk with the dog.... LoL.

[@NickNov]

Lived there 20 years, my words exactly. Thank God I moved to HK.

[@paulbugoni2846]

“Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don’t mind the maggots”. Rolling Stones Shattered. Never seemed more appropriate….

[@gabrielreinke8216]

Shattered was released in 1978, which definitely was an interesting (very rough) point in history in NYC.

[@lucaviggiani2189]

I’m so old, out of touch and unplugged from social media, I had to look up the term “thirst trap”. Thank you for widening my knowledge. I looked at seventh & 23rd/24th on Maps street view and the contrast between then and now is incredible. When I first visited NY in 1979, I remember walking through some areas that looked exactly like this.

[@viriotie]

I spent 3 years of my childhood in NYC, and have really fond memories of walking around the city in the 90s. One of my favorite places to go to was the 3 star diner on 1st ave. I recently looked it up again and it looks like they’ve permanently closed. It’s so incredibly sad and watching this video is very haunting🤧

[@10inchPizZa]

When I was a kid I always wanted to visit nyc, eventually I managed to spend a week there and I totally loved the place, would have moved to live there in an instant. Now after seeing the riots and videos like this I have no desire to go back. It really is sad that a place as great as nyc can be totally ruined so quickly.

[@jimartwork9391]

All these years thinking GTA IV have too few interiors. It's only now that I realise they just kept it realistic.

[@helenhoward5346]

It's insane how fast NYC has fallen in a matter of 10 years...

[@mariow7818]

Until recently I tought of NYC as a dream destination.. Now I am convinced to avoid it as far as possible and search for a good countryside to live in. Best with good internet access.

[@air_born_ninja]

@@mariow7818 Yeah I live here it’s not a dream destination at all. Cool to visit maybe but not live

[@yardwaste2greattaste903]

I left 10 years ago and do not even recognize the place. Its really sad.

[@crisl9518]

@@mariow7818 i grew up here. I could see why people think they would like it here, but I'd rather spend the same money on a nice house with sunlight and a backyard rather than a tiny apartment with windows that face a wall.

[@helenhoward5346]

@Frank R sure do. Now they're moving to new communities to fuck up with their voting tendencies...

[@elstifo]

Louis is filming some important footage to inspire some video game developers so they can launch yet another post- apocalyptic open world game. Good stuff.

[@adamrafferty]

Leaving NYC was one of the best life moves I’ve ever done.

[@shyviolets]

Where did you go?

[@naturesfinest2408]

@@shyviolets here for reply

[@theultimategregg]

@@shyviolets If he says Florida, I swear to god.....

[@manolotusca5280]

I left for a country named Belize best moved since leaving nyc 2006.

[@sleazyeezy9452]

Just don’t vote the same please and thank you cuz that’s what caused this

[@casualcadaver]

15:54 Time travelers from the 1920's hoping to see how much better and grander NY will be in 100 years.

[@Rolsification]

"Put on these modern hats and they'll certainly think we're from this century"

[@inef85]

Re: prices ... not an expert, but a lot of real estate is financialized (ending up eventually in asset backed securities). So when you have bundled securities or asset-backed credit default swaps (a bet, or an insurance on a bet) -you can't lower the rent. The whole valuation is based on the original "projected value". If you lower the rent, you change the projected value and your securities are supposed to be re-assessed. No one wants that so they just leave it with high rent and empty. It's not the space that counts, it's all the financial derivatives based on the space that count.

[@gwynedd1]

Yep and that is what it is. Fiance essentially sets prices which cannot go lower so there is no feedback mechanism other than remaining vacant.

[@JasonCunliffe]

yes& Louis covered that in previous videos last year

[@ranchan1111]

@@gwynedd1 that should be illegal then

[@abdelhakimessaadi9577]

Thanks for the explanation

[@gwynedd1]

@@ranchan1111 Unfortunately its not really feasible to make it illegal because its the result of social rot accross the board. To save France Turgot went after land owners, trade unions , banksters alike. All he had was enemies and France collapsed. Most people would balk at property taxes because they are brain washed to believe they are evil . LVT , aka land value taxes at the local level are what keeps local prosperity circulating. Abseentee large landowners is precisely the royal land Adam Smith talked about. The key is to have them at the local level like a country and to remove sales and income taxes. At the Federal level easy money for rent seeking ans asset inflation also has to be controlled. Then the market just works because the system is designed to work.

[@jamesmonteverde5538]

My Family owned a Brownstone with two Commercial Stores back in the 1970's. Although you could see the future despair when the City went bankrupt in 1975, the Stores on the Block WERE NEVER Vacant. Why you could see the future despair is that the greed was out of control but still nobody would believe rents for an Apartment would reach 6 thousand a month. So no surprise that the City is in the shape that it is in.

[@riopato2009]

Wow this reminds me of early 80's NYC Mayor Dinkin's era. The store front that reeked of shit and piss use to be my favorite Irish Pub that was priced out of business due to rent in the mid 2000's.

[@cin2110]

It’s just sad

[@elysiumcore]

Man NYC is looking really dire - who in their right mind would pay 75k for this ?🔥

[@mauro_o_cesar]

My biggest fear is how this is a mirror of the impending crisis we are bordering in the whole world.

[@Termiic]

@@mauro_o_cesar it is.

[@Vaultboy101]

@@mauro_o_cesar This looks like NY in the 70's, only more dead.

[@jzen1455]

Basically only multinational corporations can afford such high rents. New York is soon going to resemble a suburban shopping mall filled with chains more so than it already was pre-covid. Most everyone else will just start businesses that don’t require brick and mortar storefronts.

[@bobsyruncle6683]

Landlords: Some dumb gentile.

[@MP-oj9tk]

My man dropping 20 bucks on that homeless dude and respecting his privacy by not filming him directly hits me right on the feels. +respect

[@Channel-gz9hm]

Premium liquor and and 1/8th of an 8 ball tonight for him hell yeah always reward the homeless.

[@bbbbbbb51]

@@Channel-gz9hm 'lotta assumptions wrapped up there my dude. Show me on the doll where the homeless man hurt you...

[@henryjames2007]

@@Channel-gz9hm >4k/month rent on appartment >haha homeless people are homeless because they spend all their money on drugs huh.

[@Channel-gz9hm]

@@henryjames2007 NYC isn't that big and it's summer. Keep walking until the rent isn't $4000 a month. You could even pick up a stolen bicycle along the way and get there much quicker. You are not entitled to live specifically in NYC.

[@mike4402]

@@bbbbbbb51 totally reasonable assumptions, homeless aren't sitting on the curb in a crowded city where all the rich people are just as a coincidence.

[@davidfishguy]

"Looking to move quickly, if you don't take it someone else will" - same places still empty after 18 months. Lol

[@dunhillsupramk3]

he should call them back and say: hey i noticed that place has been vacant for like 18mts now so clearly seeing that no one wants it i'll offer you $4k

[@niknikktm]

"Go ahead. Bite the Big Apple. Don't mind the maggots!"

[@arielusgrey1855]

Good quote

[@angieguzman3149]

@@arielusgrey1855 Courtesy of Mick Jagger

[@plumsink]

"uh huh."

[@Joe-um7sx]

new york - "what is happening to me?" chicago- "your time is coming." detriot - "you've made us so proud" the entire state of ohio - "you're being forgotten"

[@imbrudedsoul]

Living in Ohio- good!

[@oncho1960]

Vote blue no matter who..... keep your eye on the prize....rinse repeat

[@oncho1960]

@800mEric vote blue no matter who.... this is what you get..... that's why I left Chicago.....

[@oncho1960]

@800mEric how do red states benefit from blue state taxes?

[@Vassil00]

@800mEric I think Florida would strongly disagree and I know Texas would slap ya silly since Texas has PAID FAR MORE federal taxes than it has ever received in return from federal funding or federal programs. Just stop regurgitating the nonsense you hear or want to believe.

[@kristofftaylovoski60]

Exactly what "business model" could possibly return any type of "investment" on these leases?? The only thing that comes to mind is a 1000 dollar a piece hand job outlet or something along those lines.

[@pendragonchen]

Exactly-they're not looking to actually get businesses in, they're looking to get foreign investment or luxury stores that are basically analog websites for rich boomers.

[@mikeydell8447]

I think I heard from one of Louis' videos. The banks that own the buildings don't need/want to rent the space out because they can take loans out based on their assets and since they can just say that their building is worth 400 million, they can get just as much or more money as they would if they actually rented the space out at a rate that is feasible for a small business to pay.

[@Ghostkillerr914]

That's hilarious

[@ckamal1]

If a building were a stock, the rental income would be its earnings. Without that fundamental support, value inevitably collapses

[@Ghostkillerr914]

@@ckamal1 obviously, but shafting the tenant with ridiculous leasing prices ensures that the entire neighborhood value decreases. But what do I know.

[@jakegreen6341]

Why anyone would want to live in what seems to becoming the city equivalent of a corpse in a trash can in such dense, overpacked areas is way beyond me. NYC is dying

[@tjb25587]

This video showing the state of Manhattan, which was arguably the greatest city in the world, is symbolic of the terminal decline of the Unites States. It should be noted that Covid alone was not responsible for this. There has been a greater depression due in the US for a very long time.

[@dojocho1894]

It started with the Reagan administration allowing laws to keep money in over seas banks and not returning into the US economy.

[@tjb25587]

@@dojocho1894 No, I disagree. The money was sitting overseas to avoid taxation, and should have stayed there. Now the outsourcing that began with Reagan was a real problem, but it was being pushed by dozens of people, not just the president.

[@randycoppola2069]

Pro tip: It's pretty good in other places

[@christopher6161]

No one is arguing that today

[@gokublack8342]

Not enough regulation on landlords. They ran rampant raising prices to obscene levels and now no one can afford it Edit: If it were up to me it'd be illegal to raise rent by more than 2% a year and places like this where the landlord is charging obscene rents I'd give them 6 months to get it leased out or we'll open the doors and let the homeless move in I bet that rent would come down real fast 😂

[@tomservo5347]

My Dad and Grandpa banked at the same small town bank that had existed for over 80 years. About 10 years ago even though they were all in the green, they had to fold because they weren't above a certain size as defined by regulations and consequently swallowed up by a national chain. It isn't only banks-it's everything, everywhere thanks to fixed, bogus corporate/financial structure laws set up by the big players with lobbying money. These chains simply cannot offer the same personal connection and favors the smaller ones did and greed is the driving factor behind them.

[@kurtwagner350]

What bullshit regulations

[@farmboytom2]

Yeah, alot of these smaller banks were corrupt and only gave loans to certain people which means other certain people were always denied. Owning a bank has alot of power which is why these mom and poops are getting squeezed by the Gov.

[@boxingfan2796]

@@WolverineTime The big gov banks are now freezing and shutting down accounts of anyone who commits political wrongthink now

[@TheSunderingSea]

@@WolverineTime >Waco, 70 people are gunned down, burned alive by ATF and Delta Force goons. Government covers up and blames the victims, nothing happens >ATF Firebombs a black commune apartment in NYC, kills dozens. Government covers up, nothing happens >Ruby Ridge. The tree died decades ago, nothing happened. Americans are all talk.

[@honkhonk8009]

@@TheSunderingSea Yeah lmfao. Some americans are still gonna talk about how amazing the gov is and how they would stand to benefit from more and more regulation.

[@SoulfulVeg]

Wow, I'm in Florida. There were some businesses that closed, but someone else took over almost every space in my city. I see a lot of crushed dreams in your tour. So sad what's happened to these businesses and the people who put their hearts and money into them.

[@craigvogel2935]

Watch out because the people moving from ny to FL are bringing their Democratic Party with them and won’t be happy until the whole country turns into third world progressive shitholes

[@adamdalla485]

@@craigvogel2935 not me. I moved from NY to Florida and I am a proud Republican who got tired of being surrounded by liberal shit heads. I feel so much more free here and can finally be myself here in Florida!! Best decision I have made to get out of the liberal shit hole called NYC!

[@bradleystreet5690]

This is the end result of forcing out small businesses rent, pushing out the labor that can work there, and afford to live in the city, and trying to make everything only available to the wealthy. I hope the corporations that own the real estate choke on their avarice and greed.

[@chronometa]

NYC is so odd. It's like they just cover up things with bandaids lol.

[@TamponTea]

new york shitty

[@semosurvivalist]

Ya it's a great way to get a lot of people killed. How many NYC buildings are just as bad off as the one that fell in Florida do you think? I bet it's a huge number.

[@k-peezy2723]

Or send them into assisted living homes to die. What? Too soon?

[@Jaxzon]

@@semosurvivalist as a nyc resident I'm honestly more worried about human failure than structural failure - being struck by an AC unit that some schmoe didn't instal correctly is a much more rational fear lol

[@semosurvivalist]

@@Jaxzon I could understand that lol. In the military we had units fall out of windows that troops just threw in half assed all the time.

[@ABRouleauville]

Louis might actually be in the Matrix. Some of the pedestrians made repeat appearances blocks apart e.g. 4:06 & 12:20 . That might explain the state of the city.

[@rossmanngroup]

That's crazy because the person you are pointing out was walking in separate directions each time. In the first time stamp walking south, in the second time stamp walking north. That sent a chill up my spine

[@mevoogle]

Woman going to the store and back to their home ABRouleauville: matrix

[@Ragnarx]

Lol, could just be tourists walking the boroughs. I remember running into the same groups of tourists over and over again all over NY

[@ABRouleauville]

@@rossmanngroup ... and never looking away from her phone either instance.

[@MrShortfastloud]

@@rossmanngroup You're being followed mate.

[@JasonStPierre]

More of this if you can. Details like this will fade away, people need to understand. Darks days now and possibly ahead this is important stuff.