Out Line [research paper]

The 1970s was a decade where New York City when through many problems. The economy was not good at all, there were lots of crimes and there was a Vietnam War.
The economy was horrible during the 1970s. “Borrowing to pay for government operations was not part of the solution to New York's earlier fiscal crisis. It was part of the problem, a practice from the early 1970's that helped put the city (and, to a lesser degree, the state) into that deep hole” [The New York Times].

During the early seventies a few problems occurred in America regarding politics. “Nixon pulling out of the Vietnam War was a huge one. He also did a lot to get better relations with China and the U.S.S.R. he didn't do very much domestically but he did plenty foreign work” [US history]. There were lots of issues going on during the seventies.

In the 1970s there was lots of violence in New York. “At 4 p.m. one Saturday last month, a tall, thin, eighteen-year-old youth called Judd was standing on Daly Avenue in the South Bronx fingering the butt of the sawed-off shotgun that jutted from the top of his dungarees. Flanking him on either side were two other young men, Mike and P.I., both seventeen, both with pearl-handled .22-caliber pistols in their belts. All three wore the colors of a Bronx street gang called the Black Assassins” [New York news & features].

The highest percent of the rent regulation went to Manhattan and the rest of poor neighborhoods did not receive any benefit at all “search shows that 75 percent of rent regulation's benefit goes to Manhattan tenants below 96th Street, and that poor neighborhoods get virtually no benefit.” [The New York Times 1997].


References

• Stockwell, Jamie. "New York City and Crime 1970."Washington post November 29, 2002: n. pag. Web. 23 Nov 2010.


• "American Politics 1970."UsHistory. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Nov 2010.


• Castellano, Vicent. "West Genesse Teachers' Association ."The New York Times. www.reuters.com, May 10,1997. Web. 23 Nov 2010.