People try their best to get to NY so they can get their foot in the door.

A lot of the private schools are scared shitless about Cuomo's tuition-free CUNY/SUNY.

They should, considering the obscene amount they charge for tuition. I don't remember Fordham ever being that expensive, even allowing for inflation. It used to be a good school for working class kids. I suppose it's still a good school - but for who?

Bloomberg was not the savior people make him out to be and de Blasio is a joke. Chelsea and the West Village are now neighborhoods for the rich now.

I had a friend who's parents bought a townhouse for $15,000 in the 40's and she sold it a few years ago for 16 million.

I grew up on East 67th St. on a block of rent-controlled walk-ups. The parking garage on that block now charges more than the monthly rent was. Hundreds of people lost their homes.

That how bad it is getting.

a couple blocks from Yankee Stadium. My grandfather was the administrator of the Andrew Friedman retirement home in the 50s.

And I worked for the 7 Santini Brothers whose corporate office was on Jerome Avenue. Scary place in the late 70s.

Now it is a different place and now trendy. They are trying to do to the Bronx what they did to Brooklyn.

I worked in the Maspeth facility at the time, but had to go to Jerome Ave about 2 times a month. One day I drove on the Cross Bronx Expressway going to Jerome Ave to drop something off. About a mile from the exit a car had pulled off and the driver was walking away from the vehicle. Went to Jerome Ave, double parked and dropped off the envelope and got right back on in no more than 10 minutes. The abandoned car had all the tires removed by then.

I blame it all on the demolition of the Third Avenue El.

Once it came down, a half million working class people were pushed to Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx and the city was turned over to luxury developers and global investors. What housing was left became a post-collegiate playground.

but dated someone from there in the late 60s. As with much of NY, I probably wouldn't recognize the place. Been away too long, but don't miss it at all.

I went to Iona College and went there a few times for games. The student body was very much like Iona's except they came by subway. The campus was a hell of a lot prettier though.

He liked it for the most part but he said New York City was crazy expensive in the long run compared to California.

When I left high school a third of its students were from the Bronx and another half took the subway there from the other four boroughs. Now, only about 18% are from NYC. Now, between, tuition, fees, room and board, it's over a quarter million dollars over four years. That's not simply crazy expensive, it's criminally expensive. Still, its cost is second to NYU.

I'm glad your brother enjoyed it overall. We'll see if my daughter feels the same after spending a year in a triple dorm room and a two meal a day plan. I'm going to give her One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich as a graduation present.

The overall experience he liked for the most part, but he didn't like the debt he was saddled with afterward, and the credit card debt he was strapped with, is one of those hidden coats they don't tell you about.

Whoever scontrols the tuition debt crisis will control the government.