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Originally Posted by Crawford
Correct, but the LES isn't the Financial District. The formerly sketchy parts of the LES were maybe 1.5 miles from the Financial District. It isn't like someone on Wall Street in the 1970's was gonna randomly end up walking to Avenue D.
Those neighborhoods were always separated by the Civic Center, Chinatown, Little Italy, and the shrinking Jewish enclave in the LES.
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I'm not talking about LES, that's on the other side of Manhattan, but the areas immediately around the financial center which were typical of New York of the 80's (dumpy) and in stark contrast of the WTC/ WFC nearby..with the gross display of wealth. Today, it's night and day nicer all over.