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I guess it's a trendy thing to reminisce about the period of time between 1964-1991 in New York when Williamsburg wasn't full of hipsters and Harlem wasn't a gentrifying neighborhood close to Manhattan. I've never been to New York and I'm only 25 so I couldn't imagine what it was like, however the lore of that era intrigues me and many others. What cities, in 2016, are closest to that era of New York City that produced so much of what New York is today?
I guess it's a trendy thing to reminisce about the period of time between 1964-1991 in New York when Williamsburg wasn't full of hipsters and Harlem wasn't a gentrifying neighborhood close to Manhattan. I've never been to New York and I'm only 25 so I couldn't imagine what it was like, however the lore of that era intrigues me and many others. What cities, in 2016, are closest to that era of New York City that produced so much of what New York is today?
Philadelphia now is almost exactly like 1965-95 NYC. Despite proximity, cultural similarities, or influx of New Yorkers, no other city comes close, not even Boston, Baltimore, DC, Atlanta, Miami, Buffalo, or Chicago.
Philadelphia now is almost exactly like 1965-95 NYC. Despite proximity, cultural similarities, or influx of New Yorkers, no other city comes close, not even Boston, Baltimore, DC, Atlanta, Miami, Buffalo, or Chicago.
Am curious as to why Philadelphia of today is similar to it
Philadelphia today really is seeing too much investment/growth to be a replica of 1970's NYC. It was definitely a unique time for all cities and the culture created from them.
I guess it's a trendy thing to reminisce about the period of time between 1964-1991 in New York when Williamsburg wasn't full of hipsters and Harlem wasn't a gentrifying neighborhood close to Manhattan.
Haha, true. I'm not so sure that being the NY of 1964-1991 is a thing to aspire to. I certainly wouldn't want to live in whatever place that is. I'm 26, and living in NYC, but I wouldn't want to take a DeLorean back to any earlier than early-2000's.
Those 27 years are arguably the worst period of time that any US city has suffered through outside the decay of Detroit. It was New York's nadir and it's an astounding miracle that the city made such an incredible comeback so quickly (thank god!)
I hope no city in the US today is comparable to the hellhole NYC was then.
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