{"id":318225,"date":"2026-08-11T00:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T00:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318225\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T00:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T00:02:21","slug":"nycs-summer-weather-has-been-just-like-how-we-all-feel-lousy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318225\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC’s summer weather has been just like how we all feel \u2014 lousy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feeling hot & bothered<\/p>\n

It\u2019s summertime<\/a>. When living once was easy.<\/p>\n

Now? We\u2019re getting to be the Middle East\u2019s Western front.<\/p>\n

Land of the former free, home of the current craven.<\/p>\n

If it isn\u2019t raining, pouring, drowning us \u2014 it\u2019s marches, pickets, riots, parades, battles, hatreds, killings, wackos, freakos, sickos, junkies, lefties, commies.<\/p>\n

All for one and one for where? Not just because lettuce is lousy<\/a>. So\u2019s friggin\u2019\u00a0Fauci. It\u2019s also shootings, stabbings, wall-to-wall wars, poverty, tattooing, near starvation, stores closing, rents rising, food prices rising, air thickening, rain pouring, bicycles killing, traffic worsening, politicians burbling. Also lousy weather, crooks, scaffolding everywhere, pols spewing BS, one-bedroom shares.<\/p>\n

And now Hampton homes all advertise beachside. That is, if you don\u2019t mind first driving your car to some parking lot in another nearby town.<\/p>\n

Once we had Mayor\u00a0Bloomberg\u00a0who knew how to run things. Now he\u2019s just running. He has a private beachside multimillion-dollar mansion in Bermuda. Large gardens. He should schlep back to check groceries in The Bronx? Or shootings in Bed-Stuy? Get involved in redecorating Rikers? Fumigating tiny old Gracie Mansion after taking down the photos of Karl Marx? I mean, please.<\/p>\n

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And if you own yet another basement within the city of New York you\u2019ll also have to pay as high as an elephant\u2019s eye. Forget counting on those extra few bucks to buy your candles. Even if that one-bedroom affordable home in Manhattan was formerly a basement, you\u2019ll also now get taxed double.<\/p>\n

The money probably goes to rejuicing Red Square. Or maybe big\u00a0Putin\u00a0might share his mastery with little Crapdammy.<\/a><\/p>\n

So NYC has maybe a few issues. Nothing major. Like maybe public safety, crappy neighborhoods, budget problems, high rent, thievery, homelessness, lousy mayor, killer taxes, killer traffic, cost of living, unaffordable housing, lousy public transit, buses that aren\u2019t free, unemployment, bad schooling, scaffolding everywhere but highway exits.<\/p>\n

However, we\u2019re the best in steaks and bagels. Arizona? Nice, but light on museums, culture, influence, chocolate sodas, pizza, hospitals, zoos, colleges, restaurants, Chinatown, Little Italy and \u2014 unless you\u2019re big on rocks or you get off on cactus \u2014 entertainment.<\/p>\n

And they got Park Avenue? Broadway? Radio City Music Hall? St. Pats? Fifth Avenue? Madison Avenue? Times Square? Statue of Liberty? Ellis Island? George Washington Bridge? Bronx Zoo? Bear Mountain? Catskills? Adirondacks? Diamond Center? Central Park? MoMA? Five boroughs? Our libraries? Metropolitan Museum of Art? Wall Street? Tiffany & Co.?<\/p>\n

How\u2019s the Staten Island ferry there? Corned beef sandwich? Kosher franks? Rolls-Royce showroom? Brooklyn Bridge? Wall Street? Dinner in a restaurant on a building\u2019s tippy-top story with our skyline?<\/p>\n

So, listen, if you itch to take your vacation in Kentucky \u2014 go. Mazel tov. Tell me about the local Wendy\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Understand, we are all wildly insanely grateful for our new little mayor. Of course, our city\u2019s economy might be in worse shape than Ukraine\u2019s. But at least there is on Crapdammy\u2019s desk the encouraging sign: \u201cHalf a buck stops here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only in New York, kids, only in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feeling hot & bothered It\u2019s summertime. When living once was easy. Now? We\u2019re getting to be the Middle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,299],"class_list":["post-318225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}