NEW YORK CITY'S DECLINE: Filmmaker Matthew Taylor discusses his documentary, taking cameras into crime-ridden NYC's 5 boroughs to interviews locals of a city on precipice of collapse

As New York City residents seek to avert their City’s decline and prepare for a mayoral election, Matthew Taylor’s timely new documentary series This Is New York has now been featured in several prominent news stories, including RealClearPolitics, Sinclair Broadcasting, and the New York Post. This is New York portrays the everyday struggles of New York City residents and can be streamed for free on YouTube. The series has candid interviews with residents about the city’s worsening problems from soaring crime and random assaults to stabbings and shocking shootings that have caused great human destruction, and badly damaged the struggling restaurant and tourism industries.  The series features stories from all five of the City’s boroughs and interviews with residents on life inside a metropolis beset with problems while recovering from COVID-19. Rampant crime has gripped the already struggling city and its overworked police force. Residents are afraid to go out for dinner, parents are terrified to send their children into the City alone to attend failing public schools, and many affluent New Yorkers have fled altogether to take their business to safer locales. The decline in quality of life is told directly by those who experience it daily, along with officials like former Chancellor of Schools Joel Klein and former Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. “The people who speak the best are the citizens themselves,” Taylor told New York Post. Taylor, who has lived in New York for many years, wants to use his skills as a filmmaker to capture the voices of “forgotten New Yorkers” to help stop the City’s decline. “These are strictly documentaries about the state of the city after the pandemic and about the universal topics that matter to everybody. Nobody wants to get pushed in front of the subway or mugged.” This is New York YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6v-nncNEIVozUKDbDVpxXQ Matthew Taylor website: https://matthewtaylorcreative.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-aidan-byrne0/support