And still, that NY spawned hip-hop, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, the Ramones, Talking Heads, and more incredible movies than I can list... in many ways, it probably was a more “desperately creative” place than its modern gentrified self. Orson Welles said it better with his comparison of Swiss and Italian histories and their consequences.
De gustibus non est disputandum, but it's undisputed that Warhol had a massive influence, directly and indirectly, on Western art and culture -- among others, on a famous newyorker of the time: Lou Reed.
