Apparently Mexico has a better PR department than New York.
Nah but i mean images don't wash out as fast as the places themselves change. I mean, as i understand it, even the historically crap neighbourhoods of New York are getting gentrified, but their names still evoke thoughts of like shady waterfronts and gangster hideouts.
Your New York past argument don't quite work though because your fixated on the 70's….when the before that wasn't all that bad lol.
Classic New York of the early American film industry (before it all went to LA), old Broadway shows, Art Deco, Harlem renaissance, 1920's culture ala Great Gatsby, Babe Ruth and other golden old baseball dudes, etc
All that old stuff is honestly what the names evoke.
Then there's the Scorcese esque New York for two decades or so, which even then produced incredible movies and almost the entire foundation of modern popular music.
But that died off by the end of the 80's anyway.
So really more of the past century has been spent with it as the gleaming capital of the world than the Detroit like nightmare.
New York even grows cities outside of New York lol.
I've grown up watching as Stamford, White Plains, and Norwalk all keep blossoming with shiny new buildings and keep gaining population. That's the sign of a HEALTHY ASS city!
Maybe one day Bridgeport will benefit from this somehow lol.
 
I know different cultures have varying sensibilities but don't they have separate beaches where you are too?
