One of the world’s most populous megacities, with  over 8.5 million people New York City is a global cultural, financial, entertainment, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, an established safe haven for global investors, and is sometimes described as the capital of the world.

The  name of the City creates visions of beauty, splendor  and grandeur in the minds of people across the world. It will not be an exaggeration to say that  it is the dream of every tourist in any part of the world  to see New York. They dream of a beautiful  New York with expansive gardens, walks along the Hudson, tall buildings, historic monuments, and endless sources of entertainment, exquisite shopping malls, and  a cultural variety not to be found anywhere else in the world.

However, the majority is disappointed. It is not the Hudson River walks or the expansive gardens which  are missing. It is not that tall buildings and monuments are not there. It is not that the numerous entertainments are unavailable. It is the broken roads with potholes; it is the dirt and filth in the streets, including the Times Square area where the daily footfall numbers an astounding  330,000, many of them tourists, while over 460,000 pedestrians walk through Times Square on its busiest days. What do they see? Stinking garbage. Hardly any greenery. And, on top of that, there is ever-growing lawlessness. Times Square is no longer secure. In fact, the whole of New York is having to face insecurity. It is but natural that tourists will be reluctant to come, as do many who live in New York State itself.

It appears that insanitary conditions- dirt, filth and garbage, broken roads with potholes ,  the barren, lifeless pavements , and the rising crime are the identity of New York.

We wish the City administration  takes care of  once “the greatest city on the Earth”  before the conditions go from bad to worse , and a restoration becomes the more difficult.