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Welcome to the city of fearA booklet entitled "Welcome to the city of fear. Survival guide for visitors to New York." Great historical artifact describing the situation in New York mid 70s.
1. Stay away from the streets after 6 pm. Even in midtown Manhattan (the most affluent area of the city at the time) an increase in robberies and murders in the early evening hours. Do not be mislead by the late sunsets in the summer. If you exit the building on Manhattan near 7.30 pm, you will see that the streets are deserted around you and they are few pedestrians.
2. Do not walk around the streets. If you need to leave the hotel after 6 pm, try not to go out alone. Call a taxi by phone, or ask it to do e doorman at the entrance. Expect the arrival of the car in the lobby. Proceed the same way, when you leave the restaurant, theater or any other place where you spend your evening.
3. Do not use public transport. Crime rates in the subway is so great that the city authorities had to start blocking the door and into the back of the passage of trains at night, so that passengers stuck together and were thus better protected. Never, under any circumstances, use the subway. With little risk to themselves, You may use city buses, but only in midtown Manhattan and only during daylight hours.
4. Stay in Manhattan. Get timely protection from the police and fire services in other areas of the city is quite problematic. In the South Bronx, which the police themselves are called "Fort Apache", intentional burning of buildings have become a problem out-of-control government. If you stay in midtown Manhattan and limit the movement of all your daylight hours, the operational life of the city will be able to provide you with the highest possible level of protection.
5. Protect your property. Theft has become so big problem that the authorities ask all New Yorkers to tag all of their belongings and property by means of special tokens, which distributes the police department of the city. If you walk around during working hours on Madison Avenue and other popular Manhattan sites, then pay attention to the fact that most stores keep their doors locked and float inside the customer only after careful consideration. After work they close the doors and windows of shops with strong iron shutters.
6. Watch your bag. If you wear a bag, handbag or any other carry-on luggage, try to keep it as tight and two hands, all the time you're in public. Never let it go, and most importantly, never let him out of your sight. Places that look the most secure, such as restaurants, cocktail bars, etc., are in fact the most unsafe. Easing your attention just for a moment, can lead to a large loss.
7. Hide all valuables in the car. If you leave something valuable on the seat or on the floor of the car, even if the doors are locked it, then there is a huge possibility that you are back you will not find these things in place. All more or less valuable to be tucked away in the trunk or glove compartment. Do not park, and then to shift things, otherwise manipulate your valuable property may notice. Always do this is not there, where you will park your car. Be aware that while you are inside, the doors should be kept locked and windows raised. And do not forget that the number of autostealings growing.
8. Do not leave anything valuable in the hotel room and do not use the cell and the luggage away. Hotel thieves operate virtually unchecked, and the police have a few high-profile cases, when they broke into a hotel safe. Currently, only banks can provide adequate security for the storage of your personal values.
9. Keep track of the situation with the fire safety. Firefighter department of New York is now heavily understaffed and, most likely, the number of city firefighters will be even reduced.Accordingly, you may find yourself in a situation where you have to leave the burning building without the help of them. Try to avoid the buildings are not completely fireproof. It is better to explore possible ways of escape and fire exits are available. Settled in a hotel try to take the number closest to the fire escape.
The level of crime and violence in New York City shockingly high, and the situation is now getting worse. During the first four months of 1975 the number of robberies increased by 21%, aggravated assaults by 15%, theft of property by 22%, robberies by 19%.
Now for the "solutions" of budget problems Bim mayor is going to reduce the number of employees of fire protection and the security forces. By the time you read this, the number of police officers ready to protect the residents and visitors to New York can already be greatly reduced. In these circumstances, the best advice we can give you, is this: unless there is a change in the situation, if possible, keep from New York's way.
Despite this, New Yorkers still manages to survive and even to monitor the safety of their property. The following tips have been prepared by the Board of police officers and firefighters to help you enjoy your trip to New York with maximum safety and comfort. Good luck.
The brochure was produced for the money the city unions (police, fire, etc.) in 1975 and was a response to the situation in New York and a great reduction in operational services employees. It was a real blackmail the city government and an attempt to attract the maximum attention to the problems of the city. The authorities were so much outraged brochure content that attempted to prohibit its distribution through the courts. However, the unions won the court and started handing out a brochure in railway stations, airports and shopping centers of the city. This is not to say that they have something in it too much lied. Skull on the cover of course in vain, and so the situation prevailing in New York was actually already beyond. City confidently approaching his bankruptcy and in the throes of trying to plug budget holes with mass layoffs of city employees and cuts in all city programs. All this has further aggravated the situation on the streets. And if the residents of the city, many things have become commonplace, then not frightened tourists and visitors worth warn.
In the mid 70's New York has won several high-profile nicknames. In addition to the "City of Fear" (because of the situation with crime), he also became the "City-default" (because of the problems with payments), "City of stink" (due to reduction of scavengers and mountains of debris accumulating on the streets) and "City of stupid" (because of the crisis in secondary education and a massive reduction in teachers). The level of crime in the mid-70s reached record levels in the history of New York. The apogee was blokaut 1977 when, due to an accident in the four areas of a power outage. Immediately started rioting, arson and looting shops. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets to something profit. A second jump in the crime happens in the early 90's because of the "crack epidemic" and then the number of crimes will decline steadily, reaching a record low in 2012-2013.
PS Scans of brochures found here . I apologize for my translation of the curve in some places. I tried to convey the essence.
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