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I lived on the UWS and there were frequently stripped down, totally burned out cars with all the wheels removed on some of the blocks East of Broadway and above 96th Street.I lived on Riverside Drive and 105th street which was sort of ok even though their were a fair number of burned out boarded up buildings but people were very reluctant (myself included) to even walk on the East side of Broadway in the low 100's.I would come up from the subway at 103rd street and get across and off of Broadway ASAP.
During the night of the blackout riots in July of 1977 I was in my apartment in the dark in 95 degree heat listening to the screaming,the sirens and the smashing glass all night long.I was too afraid to go out.The next morning when I went out and saw Broadway I couldn't believe it.There were dozens of cops and firemen around and most of the stores had been broken into and trashed and there were still smoldering heaps of burned trash and stuff dragged out of the stores.Shards of glass everywhere.
This was on Broadway on the UWS ,not The South Bronx,not Harlem,not Bed Stuy.The "urban decay" was definitely not confined to areas outside of Manhattan.
Thank God the Bronx, Harlem and the rest of NYC no longer looks like that. And yet I can't believe some people in this board say they miss the old grity NY because it had "soul". Oh please! Are you kidding me? What's there to miss? It was a crime infested city. The 70's and 80's were the worst times NY has ever seen and hopefully will never return. Like it or not, thanks to gentrification, the city has improved drastically.
Though gentrification hasn't really hit the Bronx like it has in the other outer boroughs, I'm hoping within a 10 year period it does so we can finally cleanse and flush out all the left over undesirables from that era that still have a negative lifestyle influence (stigma) on the Bronx which keeps it from prospering and taking it to the next level.
Taken with my twin lens Yashica on Fox Street during the gasoline embargo circa 1979. Thank you Jimmy Carter.
What country is this? India?
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