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Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch - decaying, bankrupt, and crime-ridden. But fun.

— Graydon Carter

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I came to America, there was a lot of decadence in New York in the early '70s because the city was bankrupt and you could do whatever you want!

— Maripol

I loved experiencing city life in New York.

— Quvenzhane Wallis

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

— Beth Henley

I've always liked New York, always liked the city.

— Shane Larkin

In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.

— Edmund White

I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.

— Peter York

New York is still where I live most of the time.

— Gerry Mulligan

✗Opposing Perspectives

What I'll remember about New York is growing up really fast.

— Rita Ora

As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.

— Abel Ferrara

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

— Christine Baranski