and there were very few homeless beggars littering the streets what you had on the streets where people trying to sell apples there was a sense of self reliance at that time if it hasn't disappeared it's much less prevalent in nineteen thirty four i was a graduate student at columbia university and we saw nothing the walking across morningside park down the harlem in going to very uh... we're going to the entertainment places in harlem there is no uh... subways were safe they weren no more there are no graffiti there is no danger of being monday it was a different world moreover you'll even find an apartment to rent when we moved to me right after we got married and moved to new york in nineteen thirty eight together part one would love to make uh... in the apartment available column of the newspapersทtook a half a dozen that we want to look at look at 'em read in one people used to give up their apartments in the summer in the spring go away for the summer