This year’s US Open, which ended Sunday, encapsulated everything that has gone wrong with New York in the past four years, from disgust to disorder to disruption.
They’re just adding new tension to an already-tense public environment.
Event organizers and museum guards must now second-guess attendees’ every move, lest a visitor throw eggs or paint on someone or something.But in New York, when we already must worry about heightened random crime and are already plagued with low-level dystopian chaos, from the constant sound and smell of illegal mopeds to locked-up mouthwash at the drugstore, they’re another unpredictability and aggravation we don’t need.
The city dealt so poorly with COVID starting 3½ years ago that we’ve lost our belief in our ability to thrive.In 1990, 22-year-old tennis player Brian Watkins came with his family from Utah to view some tournament matches — and was knifed to death on a midtown subway platform as he defended his family from a random robbery attack.personallyYes, Watkins’ was one of only 2,262 killings that year.
If we can go from 2,262 murders to 292 in 2017 , we can keep the tennis courts clear of pot smoke and deal with our more serious problems, as well. Share this article:
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