[lbo-talk] LA Times 9/17/07: The risk of President Giuliani

[Robert Wrubel]

My favorite image of New York, speaking as a tourist
only, was gangs (phalanxes, packs?) of black kids
skating downtown against the traffic on one of the
uptown avenues around 11 PM.  Now that was Spectacle!

BobW
--- Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:


> Carl:
> 
> "Ferguson better get his Haldol dosage adjusted.  I
> worked in New York
> City from 1974-2000, and the pre-Giuliani NYC
> quality of life was far
> better than that of post-Giuliani NYC -- which,
> unless you're a
> billionaire, is pretty much just a bland,
> suburban-style mall for
> tourists (e.g. Times Square)."
> 
> Oh, no question. I lived in the city from '82-'99,
> and it was decidedly more 
> interesting and exciting, at times more dangerous
> (depending on 
> neighborhood), before Giuliani. You could be poor
> and still live in 
> Manhattan. I was broke, in my early-20s, and living
> in the East Village. It 
> was one of the best periods of my life.
> 
> Dennis 
> 
> 
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