[Alberta's Child]

I have the same recollection of NYC that you do. I know Koch (and Dinkins, too, for that matter) deserve a lot of credit for changes in the city's land use approval process that spurred much of the real estate boom in the early 1990s, but I remember the 1980s as a "lost decade" for New York City in so many ways.

Ironically, I believe it remains the only decade since World War I when the Yankees didn't win a World Series.

[jmacusa]

The only positive I remember about things in NYC in the ‘80’s was the construction boom. Battery Park City was being built and there was work aplenty. Other than that it was awful. Going through the Port Authority on the way to work every day was like the Black Hole of Calcutta.