liebman's is one of the last.y soda to drink. >> howard cosell is on the air. suddenly, you see a tongue of flame licking up into the sky. and he says, this is the kind that jimmy carter saw, ladies and gentlemen, the bronx is burning. the old image of the brox as middle class, healthy area had survived up until 1977. this shattered it. >> the bronx was burning like the story, and that stuck. politicians make the brox a poster child for what was wrong, hopelessly be wrong, would never get any better. >> we're snapping up large numbers of buildings. >> first of all, he takes out a huge fire insurance policy. so he goes to his junkies and says, listen, see that empty apartment building on the top floor? i'm going to turn my back. you take all of the lead pipes that are in there, but i have one request, before you leave, turn on the water, and the water comes down hiring everyone else, they hire an arsonist, they collect all the money and leave. >> i remember it well. it was bad. are things getting better? >> is the