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Originally Posted by JManc
I think the author is lamenting that American cities are becoming more homogeneous and in many ways (culturally) they are since many in this country live in an places hundreds/ thousands of miles from where they grew up.
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I read the full article, and I think the author is simply lamenting getting old and glorifying the "good old days".
He's basically detailing all the neighborhood stuff that has closed, and all the people who have left, over his past 40 years and somehow tying it to larger trends in American cities. There's so much that's inaccurate in the article, but it would take forever to go line-by-line.
In short, the author moved to the (far) Upper West Side when it was going to hell, and now he's seeing it revert to where it was before he arrived, and he doesn't like it because it's erasing his youthful memories. He doesn't get that his experience was the outlier.
The UWS should be an incredibly wealthy area, given the housing stock and location. It was a really bizarre temporary situation where sumptuous prewars steps from Central Park were filled with drug addicts and welfare families.