My folks fled NYC when I was a babe in arms. When they were children, they roamed Manhattan unsupervised. They’d freak if I went there now without an alpha male.
I say NYC deserves what’s coming. They voted for it. Consequences are teachers of last resort.
One day a half century or so ago I was sittin’ next to an old codger (raspy voice, checked jacket, natty hat) in a diner in mid-town Manhattan.
He honked at me that “back in the ‘30s we would sleep on the steps of the Brownstones during the summer” and nothing would happen. NY was that safe.
We all know what happened: the uncivilized were allowed to live there, and Frankfurt school judges went lightly on them.
There was a slight reprieve under Giuliani. Other then that, it’s descent into madness.