Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 22:24     Subject: Tell me about living in NYC during the 80s
Anonymous wrote:God, it was fun. Lots of coke, went out every night, Mon- Friday. The weekends were for the bridge and tunnel crowd. Hung out with a club promoter and his posse. Went to 3-5 different places a night. Had a crap job that paid nothing at Hearst publishing and lived off of free canapés.

My brother who did his internship at Beth Israel saw the beginnings of the AIDS crisis. So fucking sad.


And what are you doing now?
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 22:16     Subject: Tell me about living in NYC during the 80s
God, it was fun. Lots of coke, went out every night, Mon- Friday. The weekends were for the bridge and tunnel crowd. Hung out with a club promoter and his posse. Went to 3-5 different places a night. Had a crap job that paid nothing at Hearst publishing and lived off of free canapés.

My brother who did his internship at Beth Israel saw the beginnings of the AIDS crisis. So fucking sad.

Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 15:09     Subject: Tell me about living in NYC during the 80s
In the LES in the early 90s we had to kick junkies off our cars to leave after going out at night.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 13:11     Subject: Tell me about living in NYC during the 80s
Anonymous wrote:Central Park, the Village, UES & UWS etc.

I graduated from high school in 2000 so New York was already gentrified and sort of like Disney World but growing up everyone just stayed in Connecticut.


If anyone can remember that time, they clearly didn't live hard enough.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 13:10     Subject: Tell me about living in NYC during the 80s
Anonymous wrote:It was amazing. Yes there was crime and AIDS was exploding but the city had energy and character. Yes, it was dirty. You had to be smart about where you went and at what time. Drug use among certain groups was prevalent.(all the rich upper east side kids)There where also great little funky dive and dance clubs. Mom and pop stores, not just chains. Cheap places to eat. Free entertainment in the parks and street fairs. I'm glad I was able to live there before it became a city for only the rich.


+1,000

Manhattan is a basically a theme park compared to what it was back in the day.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 12:49     Subject: Tell me about living in NYC during the 80s
It was amazing. Yes there was crime and AIDS was exploding but the city had energy and character. Yes, it was dirty. You had to be smart about where you went and at what time. Drug use among certain groups was prevalent.(all the rich upper east side kids)There where also great little funky dive and dance clubs. Mom and pop stores, not just chains. Cheap places to eat. Free entertainment in the parks and street fairs. I'm glad I was able to live there before it became a city for only the rich.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 12:46     Subject: Tell me about living in NYC during the 80s
My husband remember homeless people burning trash in barrels in Tomkins Square Park. We visit now and he just can't get over seeing a dog run and kids playing there.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 12:30     Subject: Tell me about living in NYC during the 80s
My parents have lived on the Upper West Side since 1979. A lot fewer yuppies back in the 80s and a lot fewer families. Think Dupont Circle around 1993. No chains, lower rents, pizza places instead of upscale restaurants.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 12:21     Subject: Tell me about living in NYC during the 80s
I was accepted to Barnard in the early 80s and my parents wouldn't let me go there because the neighborhood seemed so unsafe to them.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 12:16     Subject: Tell me about living in NYC during the 80s
Anonymous wrote:DH grew up on the Lower East Side and he's 34 now. He was mugged 3 times as a child headed to school. You couldn't walk through Central Park. He hated it. Finally left for a NE boarding school in 9th grade.


If he's 34 he knows not of what he speaks. I started high school in '79 - the City was a DISASTER in those days. We lived on the LES in the 60's before it went to hell, but a contemporary friend of mine's family stuck it out. He used to get beat up almost daily and is still pissed off at his parents for staying - they had options, not everyone did.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 12:08     Subject: Tell me about living in NYC during the 80s
DH grew up on the Lower East Side and he's 34 now. He was mugged 3 times as a child headed to school. You couldn't walk through Central Park. He hated it. Finally left for a NE boarding school in 9th grade.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 12:04     Subject: Re:Tell me about living in NYC during the 80s
Anonymous wrote:What do you want to know?


Did you do a lot of coke?
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 12:04     Subject: Tell me about living in NYC during the 80s
Fun, except for that whole AIDS thing.
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 12:03     Subject: Re:Tell me about living in NYC during the 80s
What do you want to know?
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2014 10:36     Subject: Tell me about living in NYC during the 80s
Central Park, the Village, UES & UWS etc.

I graduated from high school in 2000 so New York was already gentrified and sort of like Disney World but growing up everyone just stayed in Connecticut.