Ikr? I love how everyone sees trash and poverty everywhere, ZERO beautiful architecture or modern structures of any kind, cars/trucks lawlessly parked on sidewalks everywhere like it's a car lot, and profess how AWESOME Queens is. It's like no one has been to better planned-cities in the world. Ironically, East Asian capitol cities (Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, etc.) are cleaner, less poor, more orderly (no cars parked on sidewalks), and well-developed and modern.

NYC never REALLY improves structurally because too many people are in love with being seen as "edgy" and tough to live in NYC. Its so stupid.