It looked affordable, a place I would love to live. Raise a family.
lol. Yes. Check out the first, adn best DEATHWISH, from 1974, to get a feel for how people felt about NYC, at the time.
Go watch Taxi Driver. New York City of the 70s and early 80s was a 3rd world shithole.
It's reverting back to its old self now.