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Just got off work and walking in Manhattan and it’s soooo beautiful out and everyone is out and about with friends or in couples or families. And I’m acutely aware of how lonely and sad I am? Everyone is in their little bubbles. I have individual friends scattered throughout the boroughs, and my family is […]

I feel like 80%+ of Ubers / Lyfts I’ve taken in the last year have either smelled like cigarettes or BO. They used to be much cleaner than yellow cabs and yet now they’re pretty much the same. Curious if others have noticed this or I’m just crazy. submitted by /u/InTylerWeTrust24 [link] [comments]

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I feel like every person in nyc is either pursuing lifelong passions or working jobs where they make hundreds of thousand a year. I’m struggling to feel like I belong as just a regular person trying to make it day to day. submitted by /u/OtherFaithlessness42 [link] [comments]

Looking for my Uber, driver yells to get my attention, answered “yes” when I asked “are you so-and-so” (instead of “what’s your name? who are you here for?) Same vehicle type/color but I failed to check the plates. Long flights, tired etc. but both of those are on me. 5 minutes in, I realize the

I know this sounds insane, but would anyone be willing to stop by and kill a water bug in my bathroom for $? I am desperate and need to pee but I’m so scared I can’t do it. They are my number 1 phobia. Please DM if you can help – I’m in east village

Hello All! I am in a bit of a situation where I don’t have a place to sleep. I am not unhoused, just a bit of a situation at home where I don’t feel I can stay there at the moment. Some things I have tried: The subway-The A train to Far Rockaway. First time

For weeks, I wouldn’t get hot water from around 9-11 pm, so I’d end up showering late and going to bed late. Then suddenly when the temp here in nyc got really cold again this week, I didn’t get any hot water at all. At best, it was lukewarm, and when I was trying to

Hi all, I am seriously wondering how people can afford to stay here. Been here almost a decade and the rise in costs–especially since the pandemic–are absolutely crushing us. Our situation is: We make about $145,000 as a couple before taxes, both later 30s Our previous apartment’s lease could not be renewed, so we just

Shits expensive yo. But really I make $63000 right now before deductions. I have enough for a down payment I just don’t quite have enough for mortgage payments. Do you think at my age women aren’t going to be interested in dating me because I haven’t moved out? submitted by /u/MisterPuffyNipples [link] [comments]

Hi – I have a facial disfigurement since childhood and have struggled with dating as a result. I am looking for a therapist who has experience working with disfigurement/visible difference and can talk to me about the real impacts it has on how people perceive me in dating + some of the practical decision making

Crazy how quickly that infrastructure has downgraded. By the time service in the tunnels is implemented, we’re not going to have any service in the actual stations submitted by /u/untamedjohn [link] [comments]

Got a lot of great questions from my last post. Appreciate all of it. Here are more things I tell every customer and most of the time I wish someone told them sooner. Know your shutoff valves before you need them Every emergency call starts the same way. water everywhere and nobody knows where to

Genuine question: when did people decide that playing videos, music, or even phone calls on speaker on the train is normal? I feel like there used to be an unspoken rule: if you’re in a crowded public space, you use headphones. Now it’s just full-volume TikTok, YouTube, music, and speakerphone conversations like the entire train

I went out on this false spring day and to my dismay everyone is looking amazing. What did ya’ll do in February? You didn’t also ride out the snow days with carbs and bed rot? And you’re not still burning off the holidays? Haven’t you hit any of our many bakeries and eateries every cold

My name is Reuven. master plumber, New York City, going on 31 years. Every borough. Pre-war brownstones, high-rises, steam systems older than most of the people reading this. My son Shawn set up a website for me and talked me into doing a newsletter and now apparently Reddit. I’m not really a “posting on the

I live in Manhattan and my girlfriend lives deep in Brooklyn. We have been dating for between 6 months and a year. She wants us to see each other around 5x a week now for things to be serious. This usually involves 2-3 weekdays and the weekend. It takes around 70 minutes from one to

This was not a thing a couple of years ago. And it didn’t matter what kind of car. They used to have like 10 little trees in them I remember when Ubers smelled like all kinds of car fragrances and cherry bombs. Now, they almost uniformly smell horrible. Last week we called a black xl

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If you sit on the subway, do you take your pants off before sitting on your furniture at home? Is this common among New Yorkers? This was a concept introduced to me by my ex-gf and I have done it ever since. Now it’s inconceivable to sit on my couch wearing pants I rode the

Not the tourist stuff. The small things that took you years to notice. A weird sound at a certain station, a building that only looks interesting at 3am, a pattern in how people move, something that changed and you’re the only one who remembers. I feel like this city reveals itself slowly and I want

I’m a 27yo F native New Yorker from Queens, and lately I can’t tell if the vibe of the city has actually changed or if it’s just me getting older. But something genuinely feels different. I’m not even talking about being stuck in nostalgia for high school, though; around 2016… those last few years before