Kurtis Blow and the old New York City

Whenever I hear songs like Kurtis Blow's Christmas Rappin' it always takes me back to the old New York City that I never got to experience, the lawlessness and possiblity of anything happening, people rollerskating to the breaks (although this still happens in Central Park with many a honkey mid westerner looking on and snapping photos), and graffiti riddled trains.  A time before metrosexuals, men who tweak their eyebrows and get their nails done, a time before 192 locations of the same coffee shop sprinkled throughout the city.