The Prisoner of Second Avenue concerns a middle-aged couple who have an apartment in New York in the seventies when New York had the highest crime rate in the world, rising unemployment in addition to common city problems of noise and smells assaulting the senses.
Written in the early Seventies and set in the late Sixties, Alan Ayckbourn's How The Other Half Loves made us laugh at ourselves and our social (or lack of them) mores.