r/circlejerknyc

I was just at PP, the end of the main lawn closest to Grand Army Plaza. I went to the lawn to have a relaxing study break in the sun, but there was this guy who had set up with a folding table and his laptop and a speaker playing really really loud and honestly not very good music (it was like electronic circus music??).

I found this super annoying as it ruined the ambience, and I didn't really have time to go to another sunny spot in the park as I had only given myself half an hour before returning to the library. Another guy went up to him and spoke and it looked like they had an unfriendly interaction and he kept playing his music after, so I didn't want to go up and say anything in case he got aggressive (I'm a younger lady). I was about 150m away so could not at all hear what they were saying

Is this common in PP? Is it generally seen as okay to do a DJ set like this, or a bit selfish?

I was super unimpressed but I'm new to this area so maybe it's generally seen as okay? I looked it up and it's definitely against the rules of Parks NYC

Hello! Im looking to move into NYC with my wife and we are coming from the suburbs/rural life. We are looking into Columbus Square on 96th and a little lower near 8th ave west 50th. I wanted to know if this would be safe for my wife. She will be commuting to the bronx with the B train nearby.

I heard that 96+ starts getting a little sketchy and I am a bit nervous if she has to commute alone since she has never lived in a city before.

We are also looking at buildings a little lower, around 8th ave and 50th street. Is anyone of these safer?

So me and my girlfriend are looking to move in together in NYC and honestly I'm starting to lose my mind over this whole apartment hunt.

She's set on finding a place that's 9-15k a month which like okay I can maybe swing 9k but 15k is absolutely wild for rent even in this city. But that's not even the worst part...she has this massive list of requirements that seems to grow every day.

She wants 3 bedrooms minimum, outdoor space (good luck finding that for under 20k), specific closet configurations, and I swear she mentioned something about crown molding yesterday. I'm sitting here thinking we could find a decent 2 bedroom for way less and be totally fine but she acts like I'm asking her to live in a cardboard box.

Every time I suggest compromising on literally anything she gets this look like I just insulted her entire family. Am I being unreasonable for thinking maybe we should prioritize not going completely broke over having a spare bedroom we'll never use? She does work really hard btw I don't want to shit on her. But I pay for 70% of everything including proposed rent.

I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in Urban Planning, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on exclusionary zoning boards, and I have over 300 confirmed ribbon-cutting ceremonies.

I am trained in mixed-use development and I’m the top excavator operator in the entire federal-private partnership task force. You are nothing to me but just another dilapidated parking lot. I will wipe your single-family setbacks out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words.

You think you can get away with saying that "neighborhood character" shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak, I am contacting my secret network of civil engineers across the USA and your property line is being surveyed right now so you better prepare for the density, maggot. The density that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your "historical view." You’re fucking housed, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can build over seven hundred affordable housing units in just one afternoon, and that’s just with my bare hands and a tax credit.

Not only am I extensively trained in high-rise construction, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable sprawl off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment about parking requirements was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue.

But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit 10 million units all over you and you will drown in them.

You know what? Keep it up. Just keep it up and I’ll add another **50,000 new homes in Georgia** and **10,000 in Rhode Island** by lunch. You want to complain about the noise? That’s another **5,000 units in your backyard**, prefab, installed by Tuesday. I’ll turn your cul-de-sac into a transit-oriented development before you can finish your morning coffee.

You’re fucking gentrified, kiddo.

My parents pay my rent in New York City because I can't find a full-time job after college. I feel like I failed.