Quote Originally Posted by bailey View Post
How about we agree that at no time during Detroit's 60 year slide from functioning and prosperous city to what we have now, was New York City a "center of manufacturing"? Seems to me that was jist of the comment in the first place.
I wouldn't even say that much. When NYC was hemorrhaging population from the 1950s - 1970s, it was pretty much a direct result of manufacturing across the country was going down the tubes [[take note that this is also about the time that Detroit began to take on massive population losses). Areas like Park Slope, Brooklyn and Sunset Park, Brooklyn and Red Hook, Brooklyn took major hits and were also the areas where significant parts of the population were blue collar workers. These neighborhoods are only just recently recovering from this -- Park Slope a bit ahead of the others -- by replacing former blue collar residents with non-blue collar residents. And NYC, like everywhere else in the country, was scheming up urban renewal projects to reinvent itself. Some projects were just more misguided than others...