Brutal New York (Pics of NY from 1965-95)

[teknetic]

A friend linked me to this earlier earlier in the day, pretty fascinating stuff.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=402544

[Sam18]

Goddamn. Looks like I picked the right time to move to NYC.

[NYYFAN]

Another episode of "Flip that house"...

[allybear]

So sad. I didn't live in any of those areas, but I do remember the city in the late 70's and 80's and it was a whole different world from how it is now.

[NyQuil]

It was good until it turned into a preachy "white people are bad because...."

[NYYDragoon]

It was good until it turned into a preachy "white people are bad because...."

They aren't?

[Mark19]

My knowledge is confined to the Bronx and Manhattan but the city is a totally different place than it was even 14-16 years ago. Even during the Dinkins years, tourists only felt safe in the financial district, midtown around Grand Central and the Upper East below 86th street. It remember my dad having his car broken into 5 times in less than 3 years. It is frightening to think how close the country's greatest city came to total collapse.

[Archer1979]

So sad. I didn't live in any of those areas, but I do remember the city in the late 70's and 80's and it was a whole different world from how it is now.

My first visit to NYC was Labor Day weekend 1981. Some friends and I just ended up there after leaving a party in WMass. The approaching highway to NYC was littered with abandoned, burned out vehicles. WE all got a bit nervous about what we were driving into despite it being about 6:00 am Sunday morning.

Once we got into the city, it was ok, but the outskirts.

It's a lot better now, thank God.

[Sam18]

My first visit to NYC was Labor Day weekend 1981. Some friends and I just ended up there after leaving a party in WMass. The approaching highway to NYC was littered with abandoned, burned out vehicles. WE all got a bit nervous about what we were driving into despite it being about 6:00 am Sunday morning.

Once we got into the city, it was ok, but the outskirts.

It's a lot better now, thank God.

You left out the part where you were gang raped by 15 guys named Joey and Sal.

[Archer1979]

You left out the part where you were gang raped by 15 guys named Joey and Sal.

That was at the party before the trip.

[Sam18]

That was at the party before the trip.

That's not how you described it on SOSH.

[Archer1979]

That's not how you described it on SOSH.

Actually it was. I just used smaller words over here for your benefit.

[Archer1979]

I even used charts and stuff.

[WashingtonYankee]

That's crazy. It makes you really think about how lucky we are now. Thanks for posting!

[Toaderly]

My first visit to NYC was Labor Day weekend 1981. Some friends and I just ended up there after leaving a party in WMass. The approaching highway to NYC was littered with abandoned, burned out vehicles. WE all got a bit nervous about what we were driving into despite it being about 6:00 am Sunday morning.

Once we got into the city, it was ok, but the outskirts.

It's a lot better now, thank God.

Holy crap. You're Snake Plissken!

[Liger]

Undeniably, the photos are real, but I would like to point out in the narrative that Brownsville is not in the South Bronx, it's in Brooklyn, where Mike Tyson is from.

When trying to make a huge point or statement it bothers me that the facts aren't straight.

[PalmerGA]

That's crazy. It makes you really think about how lucky we are now. Thanks for posting!

"Luck" has very little to do with the difference in NYC between then and now.

[RYMASTER or Ryan_Yankees]

They aren't?

Why do you hate my people?

[Archer1979]

That's crazy. It makes you really think about how lucky we are now. Thanks for posting!

What do you mean "we"? Don't you live in Oregon?

[-tz]

Looks like the greatest development of the past forty years was www.comegetmycar.com ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_donation

[iWant27]

So did Rudy Guiliani fixed it ?

[Bambino22]

"Luck" has very little to do with the difference in NYC between then and now.

We have Batman to thank.

[Mark19]

So did Rudy Guiliani fixed it ?

His anti-crime tactics, combined with an improving economy and the end of the crack epidemic put the city where it is today.

[GiambiRocks]

His anti-crime tactics, combined with an improving economy and the end of the crack epidemic put the city where it is today.

How exactly did they end of the crack epidemic? Just asking.

[Mark19]

How exactly did they end of the crack epidemic? Just asking.

There are many theories, some say better policing, some say the inner-city communities finally started rejecting the drug culture and others contend that the market stabilized and drug dealers established boundaries and the related violence stopped.

The movie American Gangster isn't about crack in the 80s but it does a good job showing what happens to a community once it gets flooded with cheap, pure narcotics.