Imzadi
♥ Saved by an angel in a trench coat!
- Joined
- Oct 29, 2004
Oh yeah, I remember the area well as a teen in the 80s. Greyhound station, 42nd, all the shops, subways and parks, every other passerby asking to sell you something, 24hr illegal gambling, mass corruption, petty crime, the car carcasses on all the exit ramps, lol. The good the bad and the ugly. Looking back the stark contrast between '85 and '95 is remarkable.
Wow, you bring back memories. Remember the windshield washer people? They would run out into the street, to your windshield, once unsuspecting cars stopped at red lights. If you accidentally got trapped in between two stopped cars and couldn't escape them, some of them used to spit on their grimy cloth to try to clean your windshield, to extort you for money.
Also, there was the time the mafia used NYC as their litter box. They used to gun down rival mobs and leave their bodies all over the streets of NYC. The NY Post used to live for their sensational headlines in those days, something like "Mob Boss Bumped Off."