What Happened in New York in the Eighties?

In the eighties, there was a real concerted effort towards tourism in new york. The films that were coming out in that era had two kind of different tracks of movies. You had the sort of post death wish, post warriors u deeper into the idea of the urban hellscape. And simultaneously, also in the mid eightes, you start to have the rise of a really specific subjoner new york, fish out of water comedy. These are all movies about outsiders who come to new york and who take it in with their wide outsiders eyes and come to love its collection of weirdows and eccentrics.