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I grew up in the South Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s, lived in the North Bronx and worked in Manhattan in the 1960s, and it was a wonderful place to live. I left to join the Air Force in 1970, and by that time the decline was beginning. Every time I went back on leave, my mother had to give me what we called an intel briefing on which str…
I grew up in the South Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s, lived in the North Bronx and worked in Manhattan in the 1960s, and it was a wonderful place to live. I left to join the Air Force in 1970, and by that time the decline was beginning. Every time I went back on leave, my mother had to give me what we called an intel briefing on which streets were no longer safe to walk on. I haven't been back in decades and I wouldn't want to go back. The NYC I knew and loved is long gone.