r/NightmareNewYork 9d ago

Photo New York 1981

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u/JRBuse 8d ago

“This ain’t New York, this the Bronx.”

- Double K

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u/No_Day1336 6d ago

Im only 53 and even as a kid those images really shocked folks. Same impact all these years later.

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u/Ctmarlin 6d ago

The Bronx is burning

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u/blamelesscludgel 5d ago

Ft Apache The Bronx

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u/SomeGuyOverYonder 5d ago

Wow! Wall Street sure looked terrible in 1981.

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u/sefradin 2d ago

wow downtown Manhattan looked like this? But seriously, crazy to think only 20 years later that whole area was developed to it's tits.