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Originally Posted by Cinema Cat
Bums? Urine? Unruly riders? Any loud radio playing?
I went to NYU in the 1980s. Took the subway every day from Queens to Greenwich Village, sometimes at night. I saw the same thing every day. Being young, it didn't phase me. I just took it in stride. I was a bit nervous riding late at night, but felt like a "tough New Yorker" doing so, so I kinda enjoyed it.
(Remember how New York subways were portrayed in 1970s crime films, like Death Wish? -- much truth to that.)
Then I moved to Los Angeles in the late 1980s, and soon thereafter Guiliani came in and cleaned up the city.
Whatever his faults. Guiliani did clean things up. On my return visits, I felt perfectly safe riding the subway at 3 in the morning. And walking streets in both Manhattan and Queens during those same hours.
I guess things have deteriorated under Bloomberg to pre-Guiliani levels.
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Bull****. Things have not gone back in the NYC subway to the 70s. Mind you, during the reign of Giuliani himself you always had homeless and drunk people in the subway. It is after all PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.
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