With the election of the mayor of New York City just hours away, I thought it might be instructive to flashback to a very different city and time. This is a short news clip that aired on WPIX in the early-to-mid 70s in which New Yorkers are asked what they most dislike about the city. The answers today would probably be just about the same–including the mention of then mayor Lindsey. There is one glaring omission though; nobody says that it’s too expensive for anyone but the rich to live there. Thus we see the ‘growth’ of the city, going from a place where the middle-class was free to bitch and moan about the city they inhabited while the wealthy moved to the suburbs and carefully avoided these issues. Now it’s the middle class who have fled the city (for the most part), but do the rich really live here? Are all those new, towering apartment buildings actually inhabited by anyone? I don’t know. The next mayor of New York will likely be elected by the outer-boroughs and the people in the above news segment–many of whom are probably still alive, in their 80s and still living in their rent-stabilized apartments–likely have the exact same complaints…