By Jack Brummet, NYC Metro Ed.
NYC was a dangerous, dirty, and crazy place in the mid-70s (when I lived there, in Loisaida, in Brooklyn, and the Upper West Side). In the mid-1970's, the Council for Public Safety (police, firefighters and other unions) published a pamphlet called "Welcome to Fear City: A Survival Guide for Visitors to the City of New York." Both the Blackout and the arrest of Son of Sam happened during my first two months there (The Summer of Sam as Spike Lee called it). This pamphlet caused a lot of turmoil in the city, and was later renamed "If You Haven't Been Mugged Yet..." [Ed's note: I was mugged three times over the course of five years.]
The tips are below the video.
Fear City page 1
Times Square
Fear City page 2
Fear City page 3
garbage burning in the streets, mid-70s
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