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> I grew up in NYC. I spent high school and college in Manhattan. This is the worst I have seen it. What up, Astoria native (then Stuyvesant then Columbia) che
by electricslpnsld 8y ago
> I grew up in NYC. I spent high school and college in Manhattan. This is the worst I have seen it.
What up, Astoria native (then Stuyvesant then Columbia) checking in. The current level of (visible) homelessness in NYC is nothing compared to NYC in the early 2000s, let alone the 90s. Even in the late 90s the parts of upper Manhattan I frequented had burned out car husks and people shooting up in the streets. Hell, when I was in school you couldn't walk through Morningside or Riverside park without tripping over homeless people. Manhattan is downright bucolic compared to they way it used to be. The state of things isn't perfect, now, but it is orders of magnitude better than it used to be.