DailyKenn.com — Remember John Rocker?
Back in 1999 the Atlanta Braves pitcher (at the time) became famous by noting New York City's subway riders were disgusting.
It's "like you're [riding through] Beirut next to some kid with purple hair next to some queer with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids."
Fast forward 24 years.
Joe Germanotta — known as the father of Lady GaGa — seems to be making much the same observations.
According to nypost.com
“The city looks terrible, from just probably four years ago,” the New Jersey native said. “It’s dirtier, there’s a lot more people out on the street. It seems filthy.”
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Germanotta’s stern comments were echoed earlier this week by “American Psycho” author Bret Easton Ellis, who posed the question, “How in the f—k does anyone live here?”
“I had not been to New York in at least 10 years,” said the “Rules of Attraction” author, whose East Village/Union Square digs, where he wrote “American Psycho,” recently hit the market for $1.5 million.
“Around Fourth Avenue, 13th Street, I looked up from my phone and I suddenly panicked,” after not recognizing his whereabouts.
“I told the driver, ‘You’re in the wrong area … We’re going to 13th Street between Third and Fourth.’ He said, ‘This is it.’ I couldn’t believe the change,” Ellis recalled.
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