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The bullet holes in the screens, the weed smell in the air
They were the best of times. They were the worst of times.
What did New York City used to be like?
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They were the best of times. They were the worst of times.
My favorite memory from the 90s
Around 2000 when those newer trains came....
Y'all talking about the Redbirds. Some CACs on another side I visit were damn near suicidal when those cars were retired and thrown in the bushes.
Another staple of Crack Era NYC was the Fishbowl buses with the slant windows and the RTS buses with the round face. Maybe about 1000 of those left out of a peak of about 4-5000.
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dead ass. yah'm sayin dun? 
BUGGIN... fukk it i'm out yo, peace god one. "
dead ass. yah'm sayin dun? BUGGIN... fukk it i'm out yo, peace god one. "
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NYC was on the up and up before they started infiltrating. Giuliani and his quality of life laws was what cleaned it up. If anything, most hipsters came here seeking the grit and grime.
Does anyone remember how the 4th of July used to by in NYC before Guliani. For me the 4th was just as big as Christmas. I grew up in Ozone Park and it was something special. I was a little kid and my Dad gave me firecrackers to play with, now a days kids are pussies. But we would play with that during the day, the adults would be shooting roman candles and bottle rockets at the buses lol. At night you would go to John Gotti's firework show on 101st ave if you could get near it. And after that you would go home and blow off your big stuff and all your neighbors had fireworks too. You could walk out your front door and your neighbors were selling fireworks. The next day there would still be a cloud of smoke over the neighborhood.
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Yeah. Giuliani shut that shyt down down too. In all honesty though, every year some next cat was losing fingers.
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What was that like
nikka i was chillin playing on the sidewalk in full view of my aunts, uncle moms etc. they was bbq'ing
and this bum was walking along the curb. nikka just lunged at me grabbed my by my shirt my aunt got up wit a fork thing they use to bbq ( skewer?) came at him he let me go and kept moving. lil nikka almost got snatched in broad daylight in front of my fam.shyt was real back in those days. there was always flyers of missing kids and stories about the schemes these nikkas would do if they didnt out right snatch ppl off the street. wonder where they at now? hopefully
in a ditch somewhere.
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Come up off them Jansport strings, yall....
The New Look Fishbowl and the RTS. They don't get the respect they deserve for contributing to the atmosphere of the "old" NYC.Now the city has been infiltrated by hipsters and hybrid buses. Hipster hybrids.
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nikka i was chillin playing on the sidewalk in full view of my aunts, uncle moms etc. they was bbq'ing
shyt was real back in those days. there was always flyers of missing kids and stories about the schemes these nikkas would do if they didnt out right snatch ppl off the street. wonder where they at now? hopefully
Damn thank god for ya aunt Cos dude was about to take you the under bridge and fukk you like you was ice la fox
Edit: Oh shyt it was probablys B.I.G homie gutta in his pedo prime
