@AviK
My parents left NYC in 1952. My grandparents were alive and living in NYC during the Lindsay administration and supported him, not so my aunt who lived in Queens during the snow removal debacle. He was mayor during the time that all northern US cities were falling apart; post Civil Rights Act, White Flight, Race Riots and departure of manufacturing for the cheaper sunbelt states.
I had only one personal interaction with him, back in 1970. He was seated in the row with my grandmother (Lindsay was next to her), mother and myself at the funeral of Jeffery Miller (my 3rd cousin who was murdered by the Illinois National Guard at Kent State). he was most solicitous and when my grandmother began to faint he had his staff remove her to his limo to rest and revive. My grandmother had traveled by public transit to the funeral (we had come from CT) and Lindsay had her transported home by a city detective in his vehicle.