> That was perhaps the most unrealistic NYC movie of that decade.
There’s a good reason for that: the story wasn’t supposed to take place in 1979, but rather some time in the future.
The movie came out at about the same time as Curtis Sliwa was organizing the Guardian Angels in the Bronx. The gang-bangers didn’t dress up in baseball suits and makeup like in “The Warriors” back then, but they were bad enough.
“The Warriors” has got to be one of my favorite movies.
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You know this how? At that time there were no gang-bangers to speak of in NYC, it was a West Coast thing.