LINK: This Choice Sicha goodness is quite amusing:
"Three new Furies have suddenly appeared over Manhattan, inducing faux-shock in the media and nervous laughter at parties. Please welcome the Million-Dollar Apartment, the $200 pair of jeans and the $10 cross-town cab fare—you’ll be seeing a lot of them.
The taxi-fare hike was eight years in the making, but it arrived exactly as the dam was breaking—the one that, for a couple of years there, held prices in the city fairly steady. The result has been a new flood of price hikes in everything from a bagel and cream cheese at Murray’s on Sixth Avenue (now $1.75, up 35 cents from a year ago), to a martini at Whiskey Park ($12, up from $10), to a pedicure at Avon Salon & Spa ($58 for the basic; last year it was $56).
As a city, New York is no longer upper-middle-class—it’s übermiddleclass, and the shifting of the ground under our feet is just beginning to register.
"I noticed somebody in New York magazine, an organizer who was charging $450 an hour to organize your closet," said Tim Geary, a novelist who lives in the East Village. "That’s when it hit me."
It was the new $10.25 movie ticket that jolted theatrical publicist Richard Kornberg. "It’s that extra fucking quarter for a movie that just kills you. If $10 was bad enough, then they tack on another quarter? Come on. You don’t mind paying for tickets; it’s that extra little thing that puts a capper on it.""
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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