Escape From New York: Wealthy Residents Flee In Droves As The City Degenerates Into A Hellhole

Michael Snyder is an alarmist that you need to not always take seriously, but the situation in NYC sounds really bad. >Roughly 5 percent of residents — or about 420,000 people — left the city between March 1 and May 1 >The sanitation budget was cut by more than 100 million dollars, and at this point giant mountains of trash are starting to pile up around the city >The NYPD recorded 244 shootings in July 2020 versus 88 in July 2019, which is a 177% increase. Shootings rose in July in every borough, police said. Through July 31, the city has experienced a 72% spike in shootings compared to the same time last year—772 versus 450 in 2019. >Manhattan’s Upper East Side has seen 27 robberies over the past four weeks – a 286 percent increase when compared to the same period last year, according to the NYPD.