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New York City:
The Late 1970s
A city that was described to be filled with contradictions:
vibrant and young but falling about within the foundation.
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Panic On The Streets
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New York City was in a position of extreme liminality in the late 1970s as the world had begun its transition from the Vietnam War / Hippie Era towards what we now know to be the Aid Epidemic period.
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Crime rates increased heavily throughout the decades including charges from vandalism to murder and assault.
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Within the city there was an aura that the social order that typically controlled the city was become deconstructed: trains ran late, subways began to become filled with trash and graffiti, and most significantly the venerable old theaters and movie palaces were replaced with office buildings.
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