A Most Violent Year | NYC, 1981 | A Documentary Short

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• TU

  @Tumleren · 11 months ago

  So this is where I've seen him before

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• BR

  @Bridgeburned · 10 months ago

  Curtis Sliwa couldn't be Mayor, but he can still be Batman.

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• DR

  @Drum44er · 9 years ago

  "You can't be in it, and not of it"

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• HA

  @harrywilliams1164 · 5 years ago

  I was in those streets in 1981.  There wasn't a word of exaggeration in this documentary.  Thank God we all lived to tell the story.

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• IU

  @iuhjhfdskjsdf · 7 years ago

  “I liked the bleakness because you could dream in that...” <br><br>Really struck a chord with me

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• FV

  @FVCK- · 7 years ago

  Born in Brooklyn in 1980. I remember being a small child and my mother was raising us two boys all by herself. She got fed up with all the bullshit and became a guardian angel in the mid 80’s. They would have these meetings during the week and we would go with her. She was so strong and loved the city and just wanted to do something positive. All the angels treated us like family and Curtis was really awesome back then. He told me a story years later about how my mother saved a girls life that was overdosed on heroin. I never knew she did that until I heard the story. She wouldn’t talk about the shit she would see to us kids. I can only imagine the stories I haven’t heard. Strongest woman I have ever known, my mother. She did brag about how she was certain that Prince named the song ‘Raspberry Beret’ after her because the angels patrolled one of his concerts in NY and then he came out with the song later that year haha. It was pretty much a shithole growing up there in the 80’s, but as a kid it was my playground and I wouldn’t have changed those experiences and lessons I learned for anything.

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• LE

  @letsgolomax · 9 years ago

  And today you have to be a millionaire to live there.

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• LA

  @laaabousss777 · 11 years ago

  Shoutout to my old teachers that said I would work at McDonalds<br><br>- I start tomorrow..

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• JU

  @JudoLover71 · 6 years ago

  As a small child growing up in Chicago in the 70&apos;s and 80&apos;s, I was tired of all the gang fights, shootings, robberies!! I asked my parents if we could just move!!! They asked me where do I want to move to! I said let&apos;s move to New York!! They both started laughing really loud!!!

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• DA

  @DawoudKringle · 6 years ago

  I moved to NYC in 1983. It was truly brutal. Sometimes I don&apos;t know how I survived it.

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• PA

  @paige.antoinette · 9 years ago

  &quot;New York, New York ,so bad they had to name it twice&quot; love that 👌😂

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• JA

  @jacks724 · 11 months ago

  Growing up in NYC the guardian angels would post up outside of my school in the morning and afternoon and it made us little kids feel safer.

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