real housewife star Bethenny Frankel has opened up about the struggles of living in New York City, admitting to being the victim of a random punch attack. She also said that comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s defense of the city misses the point.
Visit the latest from Dana Carvey and David Spade super fly podcast, frankel Worried New York City is dying and changing for the worse, The Daily Beast reported.
Television personality known for appearing with President Donald Trump apprentice She said she was once visiting a store around 72nd Street in the West End and when she turned around, a man randomly punched her in the face.
“I turned around and this guy who was just walking out the door punched me in the face,” the Bravo star said.
She added that such random acts give the city a bad name and keep people away. “Because I go there and I tell my real estate agent, ‘Holy crap, I don’t want to live here, this place sucks, because I equate that whole place with that experience.’
She also pointed out that stores are becoming more like dystopian movies, where products are kept “in cages.”
“It’s going to impact the real estate market and the economy, and it’s really going to be a ‘New York debacle’ circular reference,” she said.
Frankel then punched comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Frankel argued that Seinfeld’s defense of the city is unfounded, citing Seinfeld’s clapping rebuttal of the writer’s claim that the Big Apple is dead because people are fleeing the city in droves.
Seinfeld was so outraged by claims that New York City was dead that he wrote his own novel. Editorial In 2020, it was titled “So you think New York is ‘dead’?”
“Someone wrote a crime story during the pandemic, and Seinfeld pushed back on it,” she recalled. “There’s been some debate about this, and there’s been some defensiveness about it, because New Yorkers are trying to gaslight and pretend it’s not really happening, or close their eyes and turn a blind eye. Because I want to pretend.”
“Jerry Seinfeld, I hate to say it because I love him and I know you all love him, but he was wrong,” she said. . To make matters worse, she added, New York after 2020 is “kind of not so great.” “When I’m at a drugstore, my shoulders are raised. I feel like they’re going to do something for me, just like the people next to me.” I’m on the street. ”
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