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When my parents speak of all the bad areas..it seems like half of the city lol
So it seemed like these areas were no gos
South Bronx
Harlem
East Harlem
Lower East Side
Alphabet City
West Side(6-10 avenue)
Bed-Stuy
Brunswick
I just find it so strange that NYC was so bad so recently...
One thing that really perplexes me is that the city population did not even go down that much
(like 7.8 million down to 7 million)...so how did a decrease of like 10% wreak such devestation on the city?
In the South Bronx areas that sufferred severe decay was:
Mott Haven
Melrose
Hunts Point/Longwood
Morrisania
West Farms
East Tremont
Highbridge
Morris Heights
University Heights
I lived on the Upper West Side in the low 100's in the 70's. It wasn't destroyed but it was pretty bad ,with boarded up ,burned out ,squatter occupied buildings ,burned out stripped cars with broken glass and mountains of trash everywhere.
Far worse than anything, anywhere in the city today.
When my parents speak of all the bad areas..it seems like half of the city lol
And they are being generous here. Compared to today's standards even midtown and downtown Manhattan would be considered a ghetto... with all the abandoned burned down cars and crackheads in the 80s there.
People who say South Bronx was "bad" do not say it in the present sense of bad. When they mean bad and no-go area, they are literally talking about Somalia-bad.
You'd be surprised that some parts have been totally ignored by the gentrification. Even to the point that they look as if they have been suspened in the 1980s. If anyone has been to Holland Ave in Staten Island, then you know what I'm talking about.
that pic, if its not photo shopped, was an odd moment.
I visited the WTC throughout the 70s (i was in hs, at Stuy, then) and it was a bustling place. It was definitely safe.
The west side highway collapsed in part cause no one could agree on what to do about it, and folks werent supporting fixing it, but couldnt agree on what was to replace it.
I am not sure about the low 100s, but in general the UWS was a bustling, if still quite socio economically diverse place. It had a few wealthy people, mainly on CPW, it had upper middle class folks, intellectuals, etc on Riverside drive, in the 70s, on some side streets. It had proto yuppies down near Lincoln Center, IIRC. ANd it still had lots of working class folks on columbus and amsterdam, not just in the projects.
"even midtown and downtown Manhattan would be considered a ghetto... with all the abandoned burned down cars and crackheads in the 80s there"
Gantz are those the WTC in the background of that picture?
It just amazes me how fast the city declined and boomed
Yes thats WTC.
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Originally Posted by brooklynborndad
that pic, if its not photo shopped, was an odd moment.
I visited the WTC throughout the 70s (i was in hs, at Stuy, then) and it was a bustling place. It was definitely safe.
That pic is not photoshopped. NYC got worse throughout the 80s, with peak crime years being 89-91.
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"even midtown and downtown Manhattan would be considered a ghetto... with all the abandoned burned down cars and crackheads in the 80s there"
that is absolutely absurd.
Are you kidding me? Times Square was MUCH worse compared even to the South Bronx or Harlem of today. There is no comparison.
Central Park was a notorious no-go area. You wouldn't pay me a million dollars to be caught in Central Park at 3am. Now you have yuppie young white girls jogging in Central park with their iphones on late evenings and its considered normal...
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