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LOL! I don t have to get it from a website! I remember it!I moved to NYC in 1977, so I was in my 20s in the 1980s. I turned 30 in 1989.NYC was more dangerous back then, and the City had less money to spend on public services like education and the police department (I started working as a public school teacher back in 1985, and I remember what lean times we had in the school system back then!) Yes, there was more crime and less services, but there were also more mom and pop stores, some of which were so distinctive! There were fewer chain stores back then (yes, there were plenty of chains, but they hadn t crowded out the mom and pop stores as much yet.)Housing was cheaper, so more young people could afford to live here. Manhattan was already getting expensive, though, and many people like me moved out to Brooklyn for lower rents and more space. But rent control had not be deregulated yet, so some people who weren t wealthy could still afford to live in Manhattan. NYC wasn t as glitzy back then, it had a harder edge to it. But it was more fun in some ways, because a more middle class person could still afford it here! But there were more racial problems in the City back then! I am White and I used to work in mostly Black neighborhoods, and there was a tension back then that seems to have dissipated today. (Go see the movie Do the Right Thing to get a sense of how it felt back then. It seems to me to be pretty on target.) Most of my colleagues were Black and I had lots of Black friends, but there were tensions, no doubt about it. That seems to me to have largely gone away. So some things are better today and some are worse. The City is certainly safer today, and that s a good thing. The City also spends more on education today, and that s a good thing. And I think that people mostly get along better today. But it s hard to afford to live here today. And most of Manhattan is starting to look like any city in the country, with the same store as every other place. (Oh, how I miss the stores that really specialized, like the umbrella store, which only sold umbrellas!!!!)
Back in the days of the 80 s, we had:The subway system which was in bad shape. All the trains were covered in graffitti, and at least one third of trains were taken out of service on a daily basis because of mechinical problems. There were a lot of track fires, broken rails, people medling with trains and we had cases where train doors would open while the train was moving between stations.In 1981, the MTA started to paint some subway cars in all white to combat graffitti, but that didn t work out so well.Also, 1 out of every 4 subway riders would be a victim of a crime while on the subway system. Because of that, in 1984, the NYPD Transit Bureau implimented K-9 units to deter crime in the subway system.Overall, crime rates were a lot higher in NYC.It would be common for you to find crack viles left on streets.Areas such as the South Bronx were in really bad shape thanks to Robert Moses and the recession that occured during the 1970 s.Times Square was full of porn shops and adult movie theaters.Squeegee men were very common throughout the city.There was no such thing as gentrification in NYC during the 1980 s.
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