Mentions (36)
"Now it's like if all of Manhattan was Times Square, filled with crazy people, cops, glaring advertising, boring lowbrow normie tourists, and the unchallenging corporate fare that appeals to them."
"Last night I went to a free comedy show in Manhattan with a group of friends. At the beginning of the show the emcee was warming up the crowd and asking where people were from."
"I was hanging out on the patio of my friend's Manhattan apartment with him and his roommate. They just moved in and we were having a good time with our bare and shabby setup. We are recent graduates and the building has many tenants in their twenties, some are even in our exact situation."
"This fucking capitalist system makes me sick! How am I supposed to ever own a home when just to get somewhat habitable home would cost $3.5 million??"
"it's so unfair that all these soulless tech bros and hr girls get to experience living in manhattan and brooklyn and i don't. i would do anything to be there. i just want to experience it once before i die"
"I was flipping through Instagram photos of a very 'cool' guy around 30 who lives in Manhattan. Starting like a year ago, he dresses like a sex offender who works in a machine shop. Greasy slicked back hair, Dickies short sleeve button up, wraparound sunglasses, ill fitting pants, ugly leather autist"
"He was an architect and worked in Manhattan for a big chunk of the 70s and 80s. Despite being rather normal and even keeled, anytime black mold came up he would get really animated and insist it was bullshit invented by the Italian mob."
"In Manhattan to visit my wife's family and we took my daughter to FAO Schwartz last night to look at "jellycats""
"You're guaranteed the same 'consumer experience' at a Starbucks in Manhattan as a Starbucks in LA."
"But in Brooklyn and Manhattan it seems like any time we meet another couple or try hanging out with other people who are married they come out as poly and hint at threesomes etc."
"She was from Manhattan. I was from Vancouver. We met during the tail end of covid on this app when you basically write long form letters to random people across the world. I can't immigrate the US unless we got married, and that just wasn't something either of us were ready for. I had no transferabl"
"Nick told me that once he was in a Secret Service SUV after Barbara had demanded a last minute trip to a NYC club. The Secret Service was up front, Barbara and one of her girlfriends was behind, and he was in the third row. At some point a state trooper came up behind them with lights, but they just"
"My first thought was that she won't feel safe walking around Manhattan with a rock that fucking big on her hand."
"Got to people-watch some ABCD's in Manhattan yesterday and overheard some of their conversation. These were junior partners at a (likely) big four investment firm."
"Flight approaches Manhattan at dusk, before turning east for approach to JFK, and it's an incredible view of the most iconic skyline on earth. The kind people pay $500 to take a helicopter trip to see. And nobody's watching. But Deadpool is wisecracking."
"New Orleans smells like vomit, LA like piss, and Manhattan like hot dumpster shits"
"Literally it would be easier to buy a penthouse in manhattan than to be a homeowner is Sydney."
"Why else would a Jew from Manhattan become a wildland firefighter in the Forest Service? It was hands down the best thing I've ever done."
"The incentives just don't make sense to me; you're going to somehow wire both buildings with explosives (undetected), attack your own department of national defense, destroy billions of dollars of your own infrastructure, killing thousands productive Manhattan workers"
"don't think I need to watch seven seasons of Jon Hamm running through Manhattan to be hit over the head with the message that Don is a selfish person, but idk"
"on my way to class today, i stopped by a pizza place in manhattan and this really sweet older guy started chatting me up. he complimented me, asked where i was from, what i do for work, and it was such a nice, wholesome conversation."
"Any hot gays wanna be hot gay roomies together in Manhattan, looking for asap, please cook and be hung. We can discuss budget once we confirm that we're both hot and would look good living together"
"The ship wasn't even supposed to sail under the Brooklyn bridge and instead was planned to depart southbound from the pier on Manhattan."
"The people here seem like a different form of human compared to Portlanders. They were authentic in their disposition. those who were kind, showed a warmth more genuine than where I am from. In the PNW , there's a discernible disaffectedness behind surface level niceties."
"He holds Manhattan high society in contempt because it is vain, shallow, and completely devoid of human connection, with any social interaction reduced to gloating, posturing, and complaining. All that's changed between then and now is that we *all* get to experience the wonders of Manhattan high so"
"So then I listened to an album I was really into at the time and listened to in the car and smoked a joint while looking at the Manhattan skyline after the gym. And then I wrote this post."
"I accidentally texted an heiress and she lived on the same block as sigourney and said she took the bus in Manhattan"
"Deranged man shoves dude into oncoming train in Manhattan"
"After spending the night on a Manhattan sidewalk surrounded by cops, I went to several other protests that day"
"St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Manhattan, 2022"
"Any hot gays wanna be hot gay roomies together in Manhattan"
""I quite enjoyed the photography exhibit" "Oh did you? Because I found it very derivative. It had no *wit*""
"He worked at a bank before 9/11 in Manhattan I believe."
"Loved: Manhattan. Interesting people everywhere, tons of art and culture, people with their shit somewhat together."
"What should I do on a weekend night alone in Manhattan when all my friends ditch me for their boyfriends?"
"It's 76 degrees and humid in Manhattan, why are they wearing hoodies with sweatpants and sometimes balaclavas + hats?"