SUCKING IN THE ’70s:
RW cultural nostalgia has now extended to 1970s NYC–when the city was defined by urban decay, high murder rates, and horrible governance. https://t.co/FPhaNM92Hi pic.twitter.com/9EzXpBIqT3
— Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187 (@ScottMGreer) April 5, 2026
Twenty years ago, when Mike Bloomberg was still its mayor and had carried over most of Rudy Guiliani’s broken windows police methods, Dan Henninger of the Wall Street Journal wrote:
The actor John Leguizamo: New York in the ’70s “was funky and gritty and showed the world how a metropolis could be dark and apocalyptic and yet fecund.” Fran Lebowitz, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair: The city “was a wreck; it was going bankrupt. And it was pretty lawless; everything was illegal, but no laws were enforced. It was a city for city-dwellers, not tourists, the way it is now.” Laurie Anderson, a well-known New York artist and performer, admits the ’70s were considered “the dark ages” but “there was great music and everyone was broke.”
Let’s leave worshiping ’70s-era Fun City grime and crime to the left, huh?