the eighties

Rudy Giuliani Bought Crack Once

One night back in 1986, Rudy Giuliani donned a disguise, rustled up a date, and drove up to Washington Heights to score some rock. Of course, he was working with the Drug Enforcement Administration at the time — the purchase was an undercover operation designed to draw attention to the city’s growing crack epidemic — but the eighties were still a wild time for the former mayor. As he told Jimmy Fallon last night, he occasionally misses the action:

Rudy Giuliani Bought Crack Once