I visited NYC in 1989, before Giuliani. I was appalled. I swore I’d never go back. There was garbage in the streets, and bums sleeping all over the sidewalks wherever there was a subway vent, even at the entrance to expensive restaurants.
I went back in 2001. I was amazed at the transformation. I suppose the New Yorkers prefer the old days, or don’t remember them.
People take a lot for granted.
I suspect in a few years they will remember and long for the “good old days:.
In 1964, my Navy ship went to NYC for the world’s fair.
The city was clean and sailors in uniform were welcomed as NYCers remembered the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Go forward to 1970/71, after 6 years of LBJ’s war on poverty, NYC became a cess pool of filth and violence.
Thanks to liberals in DC and NYC, Fidel Castro and his serial killer Che became heroes.
Thanks to the liberal like John Kerry and Jane Fonda, active duty military and reservists were ordered not to wear their uniforms in NYC, DC, Chicago, LA, Seattle, Portland and Gay Frisco.
Then the rot due to the war on Poverty began to ruin most of our major cities. We have spent over 15 Trillion $’s* on the most expensive and never ending war, LBJ’s war on poverty.
*Taxpayers Have Spent $15 Trillion on ‘War on Poverty’ http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/05/BOOMTOWN-2-Taxpayers-Have-Spent-15-Trillion-On-The-War-on-Poverty - Since President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared “war on poverty,”.