I moved out of Brooklyn just two weeks before the first big black out in the 1970s. It was a very, VERY bad area to live, but today the very same houses sell for millions.
There was so much blowing garbage on the streets, even in Manhattan, that the garbage would twist around your legs and you'd have to stop at almost every corner and unwrap yourself.
There were burned out cars everywhere, broken windows, needles, graffiti, prostitutes, crime - Have you ever seen the first "Escape from New York?" That movie wasn't far from the actual reality of New York City in the 1970s.
We lived above a grocery store, it's still there, on the corner of Lafayette and Cumberland Ave. It was so dangerous that my mom didn't want me to walk the 10 feet outside from our front door vestibule to the front door of the store. I would always say "cover me, I'm going for bread!".
I would go back often to visit friends, and I remember being in front of a store, all of us gazing though the window and my friend said "Next blackout, this is where I'll be..."
I moved out of Brooklyn just two weeks before the first big black out in the 1970s. It was a very, VERY bad area to live, but today the very same houses sell for millions.
There was so much blowing garbage on the streets, even in Manhattan, that the garbage would twist around your legs and you'd have to stop at almost every corner and unwrap yourself.
There were burned out cars everywhere, broken windows, needles, graffiti, prostitutes, crime - Have you ever seen the first "Escape from New York?" That movie wasn't far from the actual reality of New York City in the 1970s.
We lived above a grocery store, it's still there, on the corner of Lafayette and Cumberland Ave. It was so dangerous that my mom didn't want me to walk the 10 feet outside from our front door vestibule to the front door of the store. I would always say "cover me, I'm going for bread!".
I would go back often to visit friends, and I remember being in front of a store, all of us gazing though the window and my friend said "Next blackout, this is where I'll be..."