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Mossfern

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6. I lived in the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens and Manhattan for the first 30 years of my life

Reply to walkingman (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 30, 2025, 01:17 PM

Jun 2025

I would love to see Mamdani flesh out his ideas.
I personally am not pleased with what the city has become.

I lived in the Village and paid $82 per month for a funky railroad tenement apartment on Bleecker Street in the early 70's. That apartment is worth way more than a million dollars now. The soul of the Village has been replaced by what seems like an upscale mall. I'd love to see the city get its soul back.

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