A few things on current day NY: the entire city is turning inside out. The inner city used to be a proving ground for the mob and criminality in general That's more of a suburban thing now. Manhattan is almost entirely luxury condos and private playgrounds. With exemption of Wash Heights, there is not a single predominantly ethnic zip code in manhattan. Brooklyn is going in the same direction rapidly.

Where would you guess all the poor people are going? Just sayin. I am in the process of trying to get my family out of the rapidly changing neighborhood of Flushing. The main street by me is all massage parlors, gambling dens and bars. Prostitutes, gambling and drug everywhere. Near the very suburban LIRR stations along the Port Washington line are almost all illegitimate businesses.

Suburban poverty: coming soon.