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36 sats \ 19 replies \ @Bell_curve 14h \ parent \ on: Mamdani: 'There Is No Problem Too Large for Government To Solve' Politics_And_Law

Crime will get worse, much much worse

48 sats \ 18 replies \ @BlokchainB 12h

It’s already pretty bad when it comes to drug use. Every time I go I see fiends and people smoking and selling drugs (crack? Meth?) right on the street!

155 sats \ 13 replies \ @siggy47 OP 12h

I don't go there much, but it just doesn't seem so bad to me. Then again, I did go there a lot in the late 1970s. It was bad back then:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/1970s-new-york-photos#10

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb 43m

I bet that was wild. I was always a fan of that era of music from the city. But then I spent 2018-2023 teaching a hip hop history course at Xavier university (two or three sessions a semester and two semesters a year) and I spent about three weeks just setting up the historical backdrop of the Bronx, although I was born in the 80s and it was all really history to me. I’d feature different readings and recordings each semester and show the kids videos from the era and occasionally changed it up, so I read and checked out a lot of material. All this to say, that time and place has become absolutely mythical in my mind. I’d love to hear your stories!

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 23m

You probably know more about the history than I do, but I do have some crazy stories. I remember being with my friend in Times Square (a real hell hole back then, pre Disneyfication). We were trying to buy fake IDs so we could drink in bars. We were in a seedy place playing pinball. I suddenly had this weird sense of danger and told my friend we should leave. He laughed at me and told me he would meet me down the block after he was done with his game. I left, and he got robbed at knifepoint INSIDE the store. Luckily he just lost money.

Scorsese's Taxi Driver really captured the city I remember back then.

123 sats \ 1 reply \ @nichro 6h

Dang.

In totality, the decade was a transformative one for New York, as it reconfigured the economic and social realities of America's most prominent city. By the conclusion of the 1970s, over a million people had left the city.

How real is population/capital flight risk in NYC now? Too early to tell I'm guessing. Or is it still the kind of place where most wealthy people will stay because NYC is NYC and/or they have enough schemes to weather the storm, assuming they'll be affected at all?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 6h

I think it's probably not as bad as the 70s. It's probably worse than the Democrats claim but better than the rightwing media tries to make it seem. That's how it is for LA anyway.

36 sats \ 8 replies \ @Bell_curve 11h

I said will get worse, future tense

64 sats \ 7 replies \ @siggy47 OP 11h

I know. You're probably right. My reply was to @BlokchainB

36 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 1h

But I agree things are so hard to change in NYC plus they been going democrat for years since who Bloomberg? I just think this is super charged because the left feels like they got someone to go against Trump and that’s all the seem to care about these days

56 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 29m

New York City has really always been a democrat city as far as I can remember. Bloomberg was a democrat at heart - "limousine liberal" was the phrase we always used to hear. Rudy was a real aberration, and only got in because of his crime fighting reputation. As a very young kid I remember my father despised Mayor Lindsay, even though he was a supposed republican. He hated that guy so much we moved out of the city.