"IN 1968, when Billy Amato moved to West 80th Street, it had poor lighting, no trees, a crime problem and a population of rooming houses charging renters $6 a day. ‘I walked down West 80th Street and it looked like a war zone to me.’"
—- NYT
I’m torn. The only way for the UWS to get cheap (as in I could actually buy something within a decade) is for the filth, drugs and crime to return. But that’s not something to root for.
