No where near the level of homicide and theft /assault that was routine in large parts of the city then.
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I've lived in NYC since 1983. The city is "better" now but mostly in ways that I don't want. Rents are way higher. Everything is too expensive. People moved here to live the NYC life they saw on TV shows.
jul 29, 2025, 12:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Apartments where relatively cheap decades ago in large part because of the bad reputation, there’s a reason the old joke of “ firing blanks to keep the rent down” is kinda true.
jul 29, 2025, 12:26 pm • 2 0 • view
This might sound sick, but after 9/11 some of us were thinking that people would stop moving to NYC! Were we ever wrong about that!
jul 29, 2025, 12:38 pm • 1 0 • view
My father in law took my husband and his family to Disney World on extremely cheap plain tickets towards the end of September. Kinda funny in a crazy way. Almost enduring in a way about how nothing will stop Americans from having a good time.
jul 29, 2025, 12:40 pm • 1 0 • view
NGL some of us were secretly hoping that would happen in 2020 when most of the wealthier people were fleeing the city, and vacancies increased and rents temporarily plateaued for a brief moment in time (But then we had a wave of wealthy people renting second apartments as their “WFH space,” so yay)
jul 29, 2025, 6:13 pm • 1 0 • view