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[quote=Anonymous]Anyone complaining about the smell in NYC clearly did not live there in the 70s, 80s or early 90s and must only remember the disneyfication of Times Square in the late 90s/early aughts.   NYC has always had the distinctive smell of urine mixed with subway steam and pretzels/nuts.  Sometimes I catch the smell in DC and it takes me right back!

God, I remember the smell in one particular subway station (maybe under Sax 5th Avenue?) was like all the pee in the world came there to die.

Agree San Fran has gotten worse since the 80s/90s except the 
Mission is probably better—that used to be mostly drug addicts and runaways being trafficked before SF got all fancy with the tech boom.

I feel like part of the problem may be short memory—cities had this prettification and lots of rich people moving in over the past 20 years …. But it’s probably not the natural state for cities.  Go back 100 years and there was open sewage on the lower east side and people dying in the gutter.  So it’s definitely nicer than it was then!  I hope that doesn’t make me sound callous—I think people should care about this.  But to act like it’s some recent phenomenon—shit in city streets—is really myopic.[/quote]

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