NYC in the 80s, yuppie person edition?

Post date: 2020-06-30 04:20:46

If you were a fresh college (white) grad from the midwest working as an accountant at a magazine, or a kid from Yale working as an i-banker at JP Morgan, or working in a non profit as a program manager, what was life like? Where did you live and socialize? Anecdotes, movies, articles are great. The 'normal' yuppie version of Magazine piece of this would be great.

Did your friends and family think that you would be mugged and killed anytime you talked to them when you went home? How did you travel home? What was considered "no-go" areas? Did you take a car service to work? What time of night did you stop taking the subway? What neighborhoods did you go out drinking and eating? Did you bring cars to the city? Did you know anyone that lived in the outer boroughs, or even visited Brooklyn?

I have this conception from movies that the perception from a specific type of New Yorker (the white educated transplant) was that the Upper East Side was kind of the green zone and alot more people met their friends at diners o dive bars, rather than semi upscale spots. From anecdotes it also seemed like driving and finding parking in areas (now gentrified) was easy. I don't know if this is true, but my perception.

I understand perceptions of NYC differ greatly on who you are, what social-economic status you are, when you moved to NYC, etc. Someone who grew up in Bronx has a different idea of someone who grew up in Virginia, went to Cornell and works in private equity-- then and now. I also recognize that these perceptions are often times blatantly or subtly racist.

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