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Important context is this and similar trends didn’t just disappear in NYC because of magic Giuliani. “By the late 1990s the men were gone…” bc a bunch of folks
by dogman144 4y ago
Important context is this and similar trends didn’t just disappear in NYC because of magic Giuliani.
“By the late 1990s the men were gone…” bc a bunch of folks like them and otherwise went prison in NY, and then they got out and/or moved upstate proactively, and now historic, previously beautiful towns like Newburgh are gang, drugs and violence central.
But because it’s 90 minutes up the Hudson from NYC, out of sight out of mind. Trying something vaguely different to clean up a city isn’t a bad thing.
- googlryas 4y agoNewburgh could pass the same laws that gave the NYC mayor the power to kick them out
- _cs2017_ 4y agoYou are suggesting that the downfall of Newburgh was due to people chased out of NYC by Giuliani, but this article suggests that Newburgh was overrun by gangs, drugs, and violence several decades before Giuliani's reign: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/08/resurrecting-newburgh-once-grand-american-city-heart-torn-out https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/08/resurrecting-....