Perhaps now but it’s too bad you couldn’t have experienced it back in the 50’s and 60’s. If what the extra-terrestrial experts tell us, that we are probably the only intelligent life in the cosmos, then New York City truly was the Center of the Universe. It was certainly the banking, fine dining, publishing, artistic, entertainment and educational capitol of earth. Sports, movies, live theater, museums...there wasn’t a city in the world which could surpass it in all fields as the Big Apple did. Investing talent, retail giants, and perhaps the best part were the deli’s and bookstores along with the certainty that no matter which hole-in-the-wall pizza joint you’d stop in for lunch, you’d be getting a superior slice than anywhere else in the country. I think it was John Lindsay’s election in ‘64 that marked the beginning of the decline but even when I went to college in Brooklyn Heights from 1968 to 1972, it was still the most fascinating urban wonderland imaginable.
“... I went to college in Brooklyn Heights from 1968 to 1972, it was still the most fascinating urban wonderland imaginable.”
I have no doubt that it was once an amazing place. It seems that NYC is simply a representation of our country as a whole. Once vibrant, resourceful, independent and adaptive. Now it is bitter, divided, ignorant, and declining.