If you live in New York, then you have fantasized about leaving New York, even if it was just for a fleeting moment. Below, filmmaker Ed David explores that urge to flee via revisiting his earlier years in the city—he tells us the short "is based on my own life. I think for anyone who cares about mental health or artistic creation—the noise, the crowds affect concentration and peace of mind... It's not the best place to be as an artist or just a person. I think other cities have more public spaces and are less expensive. New York City and Brooklyn have become unlivable for the vast majority of people, besides the rich. I have mixed feelings, because I still love it, and have such wonderful memories."
Lifting us up about as high as that manhole we would now like to jump down into, he added, "Maybe it's with my aging I don't see the fun anymore, I just see living there as the problem."
It seems important to point out that David has both a rental on Long Island and in Bushwick. Despite all of the previous words you just read, and what you are about to hear in this video:
Now someone make the opposite of this, please.
As an aside, Publisher of Gothamist Jake Dobkin has declared: "From now on only multimedia leaving New York essays will be accepted."
