Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: NYC is a picnic now

Gives a welcome perspective on NYCs problems. Things were a lot worse 100-150 years ago when the politicians and police were really for sale. I love reading about the things that went down in the streets that I walk through every day. The book was written in the late 1920's and the attitude of the author is not very analytical; sometimes he seems to be repeating gang folklore. But that in itself is interesting - how people thought about these guys in their own time. He does seem a little breathless in his descriptions - makes me wonder if the general population of NYC felt as threatened as the author claims. But I read it with interest and am about to embark on another book about the five points that seems more historical and less hype.I can't imagine how Scorsese is going to make this into a movie.