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Originally Posted by James Bond 007
I grew up in northern NJ in the 70's and 80's and used to go to NYC all the time. NYC actually first started getting better in the 80's, before Guiliani was mayor. And it's continued getting better long after he's been gone.
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Agree that it was getting better in the 80's, but in 1985 crossing 96th Street on the Upper East Side, as a white person, was a huge risk, and cabbies wouldn't drop me off at the corner of 87th and Amsterdam (on the rare occasions I had enough $ for a cab) because it was such a well-known drug corner. The deli on the corner of 86th and Amsterdam was actually called the G-Spot Deli, lol. You could still find a studio apartment for $350 a month in the East Village, because while it might have always had a 'cool' factor, it wasn't that safe, and the apartments were crap.
The one thing that might lead NYC to undergo a big change is its widening chasm between rich and poor, and the nearly complete elimination of the middle class. Who is going to be around to give the rich women pedicures when the poor can't make enough money to make it worth the hour+ trip to come into the city? There will be riots in the streets. Like Black Friday madness X10 with the pampered women fighting each other for the few pedi spots remaining. LOL.
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