{"id":238897,"date":"2025-09-19T12:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238897\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:28:09","slug":"hater-friday-new-york-on-a-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238897\/","title":{"rendered":"HATER FRIDAY | New York on a Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"

For all who hail from the New York City metropolitan area, there\u2019s a certain sort of kinship that arises between us. Outsiders tend to label New Yorkers with exclusivity, portraying the area as a bubble of culture and way of life. To give them credit, there\u2019s a rhythm to how the city moves that stems from large systemic components, such as transportation and education, as well as small unwritten practices of courtesy that make NYC a completely unique place to live. Nevertheless, it\u2019s this outside veneration of NYC, this overexaggerated reputation of \u201cNew York or Nowhere,\u201d that ignites legitimate cliquishness. With this idea, there has arisen a distaste for those who\u2019ve recently moved to NYC, of their lack of respect for social norms or contribution to gentrification, making NYC less and less affordable to enjoy. This hatred is a new concept; NYC is famous for its acceptance of newcomers, so why now? Unlike the waves of migration that have been set upon us for centuries, these people don\u2019t look to New York as an empty landscape for opportunity and collective action. Instead, natives watch as groups of predominantly white, wealthy, \u201cBig Ten\u201d postgrads manipulate the allure of the city to reap from its capital whilst pushing away the people who make it thrive. They use and abuse an ideal of glamour fed to them by Sex and The City and sanitize a history of unforgiving urban culture into a saccharine, unrealistically beautiful world of medspas and pop-up events before eventually moving with their venture capitalist lover into a suburb five years later. It\u2019s the phenomenon of enjoying New York on a diet that\u2019s entropied Soho, Bushwick, the Upper West Side, and will soon come for us all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In May 2025, The Cut released the article<\/a> \u201cIt Must be Nice to be a West Village Girl,\u201d titling this group of newcomers and how they\u2019ve suddenly dominated Lower Manhattan. \u201cThey work in finance, marketing, publicity, tech \u2014 often with active social-media accounts on the side. They have seemingly endless disposable income. They are, by all conventional standards, beautiful. Occasionally, they are brunettes,\u201d writes Brock Colyer. These wealthy, attractive young people come to NYC for the appeal of indulging in a social environment that reflects that of college life: living with roommates, partying, having all of your peers close in age and in close quarters. This group of people has combined itself with a flavor of fun that is corporate and contained \u2014 parties hosted by the only people that could pay the property fee. Fun in NYC feels like a dog park, a pop-up mixer on the High Line, brought to you by Blackstone and Urban Outfitters, offering a free glass of horrendous non-alcoholic aperitif with your $45 ticket. You heard about this event, and all the others, from a girl on TikTok who moved here last month, in a video urging you to \u201crun, don’t walk\u201d to wherever you seem to be going. This onset of frivolous, youthful idealism has even been picked up by developers, who purposefully build apartment complexes with college-campus-style layouts, fit with all of the utilities you would need. It\u2019s a way of life that covers the scary transition of adulthood with a film of unseriousness. No one has to think about things like local politics or property ownership when there\u2019s the coolest house DJ night at Little Sister. When the film has melted away, do you finally put down the aperol spritz and worry about the fact that your local supermarket couldn\u2019t afford rent? No, you leave to Westchester or Montclair or Connecticut, somewhere more \u201cfit for settling down.\u201d This immature ignorance couples itself with the fact that many of these people are staunchly apolitical \u2014 crossing the street at protests and turning their noses up at the homeless. You cannot mindfully contribute to a history written by tired, poor, huddled masses, by gay and trans people of color, by sex workers, without doing your part to continue a city tradition of making this place more equitable than when you arrived. That is what being a New Yorker is all about \u2014 that is the club that\u2019s so hard to get into \u2014 and you should start wondering why you\u2019re still waiting in line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Caroline Murphy is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at cqm8@cornell.edu.<\/p>\n

Hater Friday runs on Fridays and centers around critiquing media or culture.<\/p>\n

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