Membership Is Closed.

Just because you live or have lived in NYC for a long period of time does not make you a New Yorker or an Old New Yorker. Being a New Yorker is more then just living here. Its a way of life, an emotion, a certain cockiness and a lot of other things to it as well. You cant just move here in your adult life and then become a New Yorker. When your an adult, you are set in your ways and you will not change. With that said your ass'd out for member ship, so just go back home and fuck your own town up. When you move to NYC as Teen, you adapt and slowly become transformed into a New Yorker whether you want to be one or not. Being a New Yorker is not a status symbol, its badge of honor plain & simple. The things we go through in life growing up in NYC is what makes us a New Yorker. If you dont know about the Duce, graffiti on the trains, what a subway token is, brown bagging a beer in the streets, Broadway Arcade, Uniques, the original days of Washington Square park, the World Trade before 911 & the first bombing, you are not a New yorker. I could go on & on but at the end of the day you know deep down inside if you are or if you are not and definitely if your friends are not from NYC then you are not a New Yorker. Also just so that we are clear, membership for being a New yorker has been closed for quite some time. Membership is closed do to the death of good old New York. When they changed the "DONT WALK" signs to a hand & a person, that was officially it. New York never did things for people from else where. We always did things are way and if you didnt like it, then tough shit son, keep it moving. New york has spawned a lot of things that take place all over the world and now because of it, New york is no longer an exclusive place to be. Instead it has become exclusive to those who have money and thats not what New york was about. New york was a place that you can come and make something of your self out of nothing. All you needed was a dream and some ambition which you can no longer make it in New York on just that. Everything here in New York has been changed in a way that the personality of NYC has been killed. You people who have moved here thinking "Sex In The City" & "friends" was a reality in the late 90's have killed NYC by driving up the rent and pushing out the natives. You will never be welcome here nor will you ever understand what NYC is really about. And Im not gonna take the time to explain it to you. Thats something you learn & figure out for your self along the way. Thats what being a New Yorker is all about, but like I said New York is so dead and gone that you will never know what its about. When New york was at its worst, it was at its best and that'll only make sense to those who it first hand. You can call me bitter, an asshole, rude, a smart ass, sarcastic or what ever else you may think of, but I dont care and those are all traits of an Original New Yorker. Yours truly, me. Born, bread, dead… Old New York.