• 28 Aug 2008 at 11:18 AM

Some Day A Real Rain Is Going To Clean These Streets

By Bess Levin

Are we headed back to the old New York City of Travis Bickle the Taxicab Driver and Lolitish Jodie Foster? That might seem impossible to many of you who never experienced the old New York. But when Wall Street ran into problems in the seventies, things very quickly deteriorated for the rest of the city. After the jump, the BreakingViews crew looks at some dark possibilities.


Comments (12)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2008 at 11:42 AM

    it’s a different world now.

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2008 at 11:53 AM

    If we get thousands of war vets hooked on heroin moving to the city, then things could get interesting.

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2008 at 11:56 AM

    By mixing him up with a bunch of CDO salesmen, this is really taking the name of Travis Bickle, one of NY’s finest vigilantes, in vain.

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2008 at 12:06 PM

    the city didn’t have the Sham -Wow available at the time. This is a whole new world. love Vincent Offer.

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2008 at 12:12 PM

    All you’d need is a return to the Great Society via Mr. Obama and a Democratic congress, and you would see real deterioration as the wealthy benefactors who help to make NYC great head for the Caribbean or some other tax haven.
    Hope and change? “You talking to me?”
    - Anon4Life

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2008 at 12:17 PM

    “Drop dead.”
    ~The Ghost of Gerald Ford

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2008 at 12:55 PM

    When NY’s economy drops, the CHUDs return

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2008 at 1:30 PM

    Booooooorrriiinnnggg!

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2008 at 1:32 PM

    The City has a financial structure in place that it didn’t have during the 70s. NYC wasn’t a very fun place to govern over the crash of ’87, with the consequences felt from ’89 – ’93, or after 9/11 when there were new needs and less money. But the City tightened its belt and weathered the storms.

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2008 at 1:53 PM

    Then again, crime does seem to be up lately and I’d love to give these “New Yorkers” a taste of old New York…
    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/nyregion/27arrival.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
    (Interesting…when you hit preview, it gives you a Fashionista header…)

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2008 at 4:51 PM

    I can’t believe people are talking about the upcoming fall of New York like it was some sort of mere possibility.
    People, it isn’t a possibility, it is guaranteed.
    I’m talking “Escape from New York” bad. I’m talking Detroit bad. I’m talking “why the hell did I buy in after real estate had fallen only 80% bad.”
    Sad, I know, but unavoidable.

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | August 28, 2008 at 4:59 PM

    I can’t believe people are talking about the upcoming fall of New York like it was some sort of mere possibility.
    People, it isn’t a possibility, it is guaranteed.
    I’m talking “Escape from New York” bad. I’m talking Detroit bad. I’m talking “why the hell did I buy in after real estate had fallen only 80% bad.”
    Sad, I know, but unavoidable.

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