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Re: Time for the MTA to cash in on the graffiti in the system... |
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Posted by Christopher Rivera on Sun Jan 6 09:37:54 2008, in response to Re: Time for the MTA to cash in on the graffiti in the system..., posted by Russ on Sat Jan 5 21:46:36 2008. If that was indeed true then why did the city only experience growth during the 80s, during the 70s the outer boroughs struggled, don't relate growth in manhattan to growth citywide, if the city was in fact growing then the effects would've been felt city wide like the growth occuring now. If you were in fact right then why was the city cutting back transit service? WHy were they reducing trains? Why were trains breaking down frequently? Why was graffiti rampant? What you're saying has in fact no proof... look at the 1977 blackout compared to the 2003 black out...Looting and vandalism were widespread, hitting thirty-one neighborhoods, including every poor neighborhood in the city. Among the hardest hit were Crown Heights where seventy-five stores on a five-block stretch were looted, and Bushwick where arson was rampant with some 25 fires still burning the next morning. At one point two blocks of Broadway, which separates Bushwick from Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, were on fire. Thirty-five blocks of Broadway were destroyed: 134 stores looted, 45 of them set ablaze. In all, 1,616 stores were damaged in looting and rioting. 1,037 fires were responded to, including 14 multiple-alarm fires. In the largest mass arrest in city history, 3,776 people were arrested. Many had to be stuffed into overcrowded cells, precinct basements and other makeshift holding pens. A Congressional study estimated that the cost of damages amounted to a little over US$300 million. In 2003 NONE OF THAT HAPPENED. So the time were in fact bad, look at the pictures of the outer boroughs where there were abandoned buildings, crime on nearly every street. Where was that growth... there was none. Come on, if there was growth there wouldn't be that famous line "Ford to City... Drop Dead" |
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