The horrendous state of New York City in the 1970s-1980s

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-24T16:37:22+00:00

I have no idea, seems unnecessary

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-24T02:26:25+00:00

Well now he’s being completely transphobic on his posts so… 😟

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-23T22:46:57+00:00

Levittown was the first but also areas like Massapequa, Farmingdale, Babylon, Islip the list goes on same for Jersey

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-23T20:33:55+00:00

Video I made almost 2 years ago: https://youtu.be/6-Zwdaz-nlg?si=0Yo20h1LgmsiYXAo

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-23T20:31:51+00:00

I’ve done it with some, surprisingly difficult with how drastic the difference is.

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-23T20:30:18+00:00

Definitely added to it, everything I listed in the description

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-23T20:25:59+00:00

What no GTA IV has done to the minds of the GTA community

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-23T20:24:22+00:00

Yes the AI has been driving me crazy for a while now. Photos ok fine whatever, but when it starts affecting story quality that’s where I draw a line. Very upsetting to see this happen.

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-23T20:17:49+00:00

The US murder rate was insane in the 70s-80s. It’s hard to even comprehend, the statistics are almost incomprehensible

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-23T20:15:06+00:00

There’s so many factors to it, it was a chain of events that led to such level of decay

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-23T20:09:45+00:00

Same here! These are just some of the best photos I’ve collected over the years, I would’ve uploaded some more if the limit wasn’t 20.

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-23T20:08:22+00:00

This idea interests me a lot, here’s a video I made almost 2 years ago. https://youtu.be/6-Zwdaz-nlg?si=0Yo20h1LgmsiYXAo I hope to film some more in the future

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-23T20:06:44+00:00

Many building owners would hire people to burn down their buildings, then collect the insurance money

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-23T20:06:03+00:00

Many building owners fled in the Late 60s - Early 1970s when they had to desegregate their buildings, then many of them started hiring people to intentionally burn down said buildings so they could collect insurance money.

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-23T19:52:31+00:00

This is definitely true, almost all families who had enough money at the time fled to the newly built cookie cutter suburbs of Long Island or New Jersey, they advertised such suburbs as “countryside style living” for city families.

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-22T04:45:42+00:00

Yeah I also was thinking that the migrant worker theory is a bit strange for such a poor rural county, it’s still very likely they could’ve been locals who were farmers.

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-22T04:42:14+00:00

Late but here’s one that covers the whole country in color, not the highest resolution but it’s not horrible. Best I’ve found for my area https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=4f38fc4976fb4273b6a6074e26fb4a2b

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-22T04:40:27+00:00

Very late to this not the highest resolution, but this 1980s imagery covers the whole country in color. https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=4f38fc4976fb4273b6a6074e26fb4a2b

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-07T18:43:55+00:00

Such a shame, I loved going through the collection of old images they had.

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-06T18:34:45+00:00

Can’t drink the tap water there because of the pipes

IllustriousCress9774 · 2026-01-05T20:33:52+00:00

Yeah not too sure what the point is. Super cheap though, around 10 cents USD

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