Air Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around,…

— Herbert Muschamp

When you go to urban America and you look at cities around America. People are moving back into the cities at record numbers. In…

— Marty Walsh

In a lot of ways, New York isn't the city I moved to back in 1979. I'm old enough to separate my nostalgia for…

— Bill de Blasio

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

— Ken Jennings

Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough patch -…

— Graydon Carter

“But the heat and the drought were in some ways the least of it. On May 9 a colossal dust storm had swung out…

— Daniel James Brown

What I'll remember about New York is growing up really fast.

— Rita Ora

When I came to America, there was a lot of decadence in New York in the early '70s because the city was bankrupt and…

— Maripol

The '70s just seemed dirty, honestly, and not in an interesting way. It's not the '80s. In fact, it's 10 less. I grew up…

— Ryan Gosling

I think the air in New York is death.

— Richard Bonynge

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and…

— Richard M. Nixon

I have very warm memories about New York, about the old times, mostly the '60s.

— Erro