I visited Manhattan for the first time in 1977 and it was so bad that I avoided it for 30 years.
Hearing that it had changed, I took a chance and spent 8 days with my teen-aged daughter there in August.
Wow!!
The difference is like night and day. The streets are safe. The subway is filled with normal people and Central Park is filled with families and kids. The graffiti is gone. Times Square is no longer a giant porn shop. My daughter loved it.
If you have not been there in a while, I highly recommend it.
I’ll go when my CCW is honored there.
Stay away! We’re now being over run by Europeans!
I moved here in 1972 and was under Lindsay, Beame, Koch, Dinkins and than Rudy who at last made this place livable and you were not afraid to touch things he really clean this place up and brough down crime Rudy was tenacious and did not take no for answer.
Now Bloomberg has maintain the Rudy standards but unfortunate Bloomie is a part of the Humanist Manifesto!