[PotatoHeadMick]

Thanks, that seems to answer my question, although the 1960’s produced the disasters we have today I don’t think they are responsible for the initial transformation which was long term and already under way.

It seems that NYC isn’t really a place for ordinary working families but that economic changes post-Second World War, exacerbated by social “reforms”, would have been behind the decline.

[Roccus]

I was a NYC boy from LaGuardia to Bloomberg. Got out almost ten years ago. Although most change is gradual, the 60s saw some of the most marked turns in my life there....except for Rudy's successful war on crime.