Sentence examples for crime and decay from inspiring English sources

By the 1970's, as Newark was consumed by crime and decay, reports of cemetery muggings kept visitors away.

The result, he says, could be that low-density suburbs "may become what inner cities became in the 1960's and 1970's — slums characterized by poverty, crime, and decay".

Mr. Flores had been keeping sentry over the blocks near his apartment on the Grand Concourse when he decided to be more ambitious about the crime and decay that he said extended well beyond his doorstep.

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood, once a sketchy neighborhood in a spiral of petty crime and decay, has been well on its way over the past 10 years to becoming a bustling tourist destination and nightlife district.

Calling him the ring's founder and leader, Mr. Vance said Mr. Perez, 44, "and his drug-trafficking cohorts brought fear and anxiety to entire neighborhoods in Manhattan that suffered through the crime and decay that is brought on by drug trafficking".

Wittich, who is retired from a company that sold products for the tool and die industry and also runs a farm upstate, moved out of the city in 1969, discouraged by the crime and decay he saw.

After decades of crime, abandonment and decay, the neighborhood is finally worth big-ticket investment.

To this day, in fact, the words "East New York" conjure images of crime, hopelessness and decay.

"Puerto Ricans wanted to recreate their villages to stabilize themselves while adjusting to society and they were doing it in a place that was an absolute wasteland" because of crime, abandonment and decay, he added.

THE factors luring homeowners like David Gonzalez into Bridgeport — a city whose persistent problems with crime, corruption and decay have at times subjected it to derision — offer strong evidence that those problems might be conquerable after all.

Depending on your political point of view, that would mean a return to the bad old days of rampant crime, decrepitude and decay under Mr. de Blasio's former boss, Mr. Dinkins, or those of tone-deaf authoritarianism and racial tension under Mr. Giuliani, who made Mr. Lhota his second in command.