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My grandparents and parents were from the Bronx and lived there their whole lives until the mid 1970s. I vaguely recall my grandfather commuting to downtown Manhattan every morning to go to work before he retired. I remember seeing the burnt out and rubble filled buildings as far as the eye could see from the Cross Bronx Expressway in the 70's when I lived there as a child. We moved to the suburbs of New Jersey by the time I went to grammar school, but it really was a different world back then from how it is now.
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