And what year would that have been? I think you'd find NYC much changed now.
It certainly is different now than when I lived there, on the Lower East
Side from '79-'90. It was bad when I first moved there (got mugged four
times in the first year--mostly due to being a geeky boy with glasses from
the sticks, pretending to be a rocker wearing skinny ties and eyeliner
coming home from clubs at 4am) then got better, then got worse when crack
arrived on the scene in the mid-'80's, then got better again starting about
'89.
I visited NYC on my own in 1976 (when I was 22 and even more naive), stayed
with a friend's granparents up near Columbia on the edge of Harlem. I must
admit I got a lot of advice with regard to where to and where not to get off
the A train, mostly from people of color, looking out for me.
And that trip was when I bought my OM-1md from 47th Street Photo. (OM
content)
Rob in Seattle
> On Thu February 22 2007 1:13 pm, James N. McBride wrote:
>> A person just needs to know where to not go. I used to have a lot of tests
>> run at Columbia University in a chemical engineering lab that was on the
>> edge of Harlem. Cars had to be parked in a fenced area as they would be
>> stripped during the daylight hours if parked outside. We had two test
>> sponsors mugged and badly beaten when they decided to go for a walk at noon
>> hour. One of my guys was a tough old desert rat and he decided to walk to
>> the hotel one day. A girl about 15 years old walked up and grabbed him by
>> the balls. That old boy was scared half to death. There is plenty of crime
>> in NYC. Those per-capita numbers can be deceiving. /jmac
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