Posted on 09/30/2017 8:50:52 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
In 1971, the year that we set the beginning of The Deuce, I was 11 years old, co-creator David Simon recalled. At 17, he spent the summer in New York while working at an uncles warehouse: I can tell you that, while the city felt electric and volatile and amazing and, from its debauchery to its culture, it felt like an incredible place, it was also dangerous as hell.
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Oh yes, I remember John Lindsay well. Especially the Transit strike that ensued and the snow storm snafu.
To think at one time Lindsay was a Republican.
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