There is something else that has changed the culture. They don’t lock up crazy people. The do-gooders claimed that these people would be okay on the streets if they would just take their medications. Well, they don’t usually take their medications because they think they are okay without the drugs.
I know a lot of people here do not like Rudy; however, when he took over as Mayor of NYC he cleaned up what was once a cr@p filled toilet bowl with no running water.
Everyone hated him, especially the unions. He cleaned up the streets, locked up the crazies, removed the homeless from the streets, made NYC a clean safe place.
Now NYC is becoming what it once was, prior to Rudy.