Way back at the turn of the millennium, I worked for a fiber optic company. Our installation crews & engineers returned from NYC telling astonished stories that they could not work in some areas of NYC without police escort/protection.
Insane!
What is more insane is that this was allowed by the town managers police a d others.
USA is turning into North Mexico
I worked as a NYNEX cable splicer throughout the 90s. I retired in June 99. I worked that entire time in Harlem, Washington Heights and the South Bronx in the basements, backyards, on the rooftops and in the streets.......day and night. I gotta tell ya, your colleagues were yankin’ yer chain.
I have a friend, who up until about a year and a half ago worked in New York City for 2 1/2 to 3 years for a communications company specializing in everything to do with railroads. They really enjoyed the work, but the Crime issues Force their hand.