Posted on 08/31/2020 9:56:47 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
Just a year before David Berkowitz started his infamous crime spree, and two years before the carnage of looting and broken glass of the blackout of 1977, New York City stood at the edge of an abyss. It faced bankruptcy and spiking crime. When you stepped off the plane in 1975 at Laguardia Airport, you were greeted with a pamphlet emblazoned with a skull and bold letters that said “Welcome to Fear City.”
The survival guide offered stark advice on how to hide your property, how to avoid violence and robberies, and most of all, “until things change, stay away from New York City if you possibly can.” Plainclothes police officers handed them out as a clear warning. Now there is further tumult almost a generation later. Step out of a cab in Brooklyn or the Bronx today and the same pamphlet may as well be making the rounds.
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I don’t think even Rudy could save NYC given the current demographics and political environment.
Escape from New York
Mayor Rudy Giuliani had the advantage of being mayor in New York City when tons of money poured into financial and technical companies; some for the dot com boom and others due to Y2K preparation. Meanwhile, the gap between New York City's infrastructure and what's needed for a successful modern city keeps getting wider.
The billions spent on raising the Bayonne Bridge to allow container ships into ports in New Jersey, and how much was thrown into extending the Second Avenue subway line, are just two examples of how outdated the infrastructure is and how costly it is to update it to a standard from decades ago. It's not a modernization effort; it's a series of band-aids attempting to keep from going under but it's been too dependent on productive people in other states to subsidize it.
Not far north is a place called Old Quebec which was also once a thriving city. It's still there of course, but now it's a live-in museum.
Just hard to imagine how bad it is going to get. Budget cuts haven’t been made yet
These people are insane, basically they want you dead unless you hate Trump. Rudy is a sure Republican team player, even for Trump, I want him to be governor, but plenty of the nutcases ranging from Cuomo to AOC would want him dead for the fact that he defends Trump regularly on Facebook and Twitter.
The Chameleon XLE!
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/chameleon-xle/2859849
**When you stepped off the plane in 1975 at Laguardia Airport, you were greeted with a pamphlet emblazoned with a skull and bold letters that said “Welcome to Fear City.” ***
I remember radio commentator Paul Harvey telling of a similar booklet issued to visitors in Washington DC back in...1860, for Lincoln’s inauguration.
New Yorkers Hated Giuliani. I mean those who loved him loved him. But there are a lot of people living off the government in the inner city, the voting base in NY. The commuters, the bridge and tunnel people, who spend most of their days in NY, experiencing law and order/disorder, do not bit for NYC government. They DO pay NYC taxes.
Ah Phil Hartmann
before his jealous pill popping wife murdered him
Oh.
Darn.
I don’t know why but I am intrigued by this subject. I find myself looking at YouTube of cities before and after. NYC esp intrigues me. I agree: momentum has been lost.
The price the city will pay for sending filthy punks to Gracie Mansion *and* the Governor’s Mansion.
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