As someone who walks around NYC all the time, and also tracks the crime #s, I know how ridiculous this is. But it’s not just me. Weekend foot traffic in Midtown, where Fox has its offices, is higher than prepandemic; strangely, people don’t seem too terrified to go out 2/
Maria Bartiromo is obviously spewing lies to advance her narrative, but I would also suggest that comparing your anecdotal experience walking around as a (white) man to that of a woman is going to also be inherently flawed. I've never gotten cat called, but I know it happens all the time.
I know that a song is not a documentary, but "Summer In New York" by SOFI TUKKER is unlikely to have been written about a dystopian hellhole: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO-4...
And one of the YouTube comments is "You guys totally captured the vibe of the city in this song."