Westbury Schools $173 Million Bond proposal

[OhBeeHave]

Originally Posted by SandyJet

When I was five years old I recall trick or treating on the Grand Concourse because all the Rich jewish lawyers and doctors lived there.

By the time I was ten it was becoming slummy, by the time I was 13 it was crackheads.

Kinda fast change.

Yes. Sad, really.

[peconic117]

Originally Posted by SandyJet

When I was five years old I recall trick or treating on the Grand Concourse because all the Rich jewish lawyers and doctors lived there.

By the time I was ten it was becoming slummy, by the time I was 13 it was crackheads.

Kinda fast change.

Wow Grand Concourse was actually NICE at one time???

[twingles]

Originally Posted by peconic117

Wow Grand Concourse was actually NICE at one time???

My mom worked nights and woukd take the bus home to their apartment off the concourse. My dad went to HS in the shadow of Yankee Stadium and took the subway to school from Washington Heeights. The schools is still there (All Hallows) and I believe it's almost entirely black and entirely scholarship.

[SandyJet]

Originally Posted by peconic117

Wow Grand Concourse was actually NICE at one time???

When my parents got married in 1957 they both lived in Manhattan. They moved to the suburbs of the Bronx.

The Grand Concourse was where the wealthy Jewish Manhattan Doctors lived. Huge lobbies and brass rails.

My building a few blocks off Grand Concourse my neighbor was a Doctor and his Wife who raised her Ivy league sons in that apt. Husband died when I was little, short before we moved she passed away. We bought some used expensive furniture off her sons at the estate sale. I still the beautiful desk left to me by my Mom that the Doctor's wife would use to write out bills to patents and keep track of things. It is from the 1930s.

My Mom at one point when single had an grandaunt who owned a building on 73rd on the Park in Manhattan where she lived. This is now around 1951. Her Rich very old relatives. Actually owned a Farm in the Bronx walking distance from the train. They take the train from 72nd street to the farm for dinner.

The older Jewish folks will tell you the Bronx started going down him in the 1950s when the Irish moved in and even further down hill when Italians followed, soon to be followed by Crackheads and gangs by the early 1970s. By 1973 when it was full blown crazy. A kid in my class Dad got off the train with the Daily News under his arm, a crack yells give me the paper, he says no and he stabs him to death right at six pm on a crowded platform.

My brass rails were stolen in my building, glass doors broken down and super had a guard dog to keep crack heads out of lobby. Stolen cars and Graffiti everywhere. Now imagine this is 1973. Only ten years earlier in 1963 building full of wealthy Jewish Professionals and a few Irish families with brass rails, marble lobby and gleaming French doors. It happened real quick.

[mrmondaynight]

Originally Posted by S.I.B.

do you even file a tax return?

lol @ the though of that. Don't think the man has ever worked a minute in his life.

[TEPLimey]

Originally Posted by SandyJet

When my parents got married in 1957 they both lived in Manhattan. They moved to the suburbs of the Bronx.

The Grand Concourse was where the wealthy Jewish Manhattan Doctors lived. Huge lobbies and brass rails.

My building a few blocks off Grand Concourse my neighbor was a Doctor and his Wife who raised her Ivy league sons in that apt. Husband died when I was little, short before we moved she passed away. We bought some used expensive furniture off her sons at the estate sale. I still the beautiful desk left to me by my Mom that the Doctor's wife would use to write out bills to patents and keep track of things. It is from the 1930s.

My Mom at one point when single had an grandaunt who owned a building on 73rd on the Park in Manhattan where she lived. This is now around 1951. Her Rich very old relatives. Actually owned a Farm in the Bronx walking distance from the train. They take the train from 72nd street to the farm for dinner.

The older Jewish folks will tell you the Bronx started going down him in the 1950s when the Irish moved in and even further down hill when Italians followed, soon to be followed by Crackheads and gangs by the early 1970s. By 1973 when it was full blown crazy. A kid in my class Dad got off the train with the Daily News under his arm, a crack yells give me the paper, he says no and he stabs him to death right at six pm on a crowded platform.

My brass rails were stolen in my building, glass doors broken down and super had a guard dog to keep crack heads out of lobby. Stolen cars and Graffiti everywhere. Now imagine this is 1973. Only ten years earlier in 1963 building full of wealthy Jewish Professionals and a few Irish families with brass rails, marble lobby and gleaming French doors. It happened real quick.

Probably seriously hastened by the financial condition of NYC at that time

[Coney]

Originally Posted by TEPLimey

Probably seriously hastened by the financial condition of NYC at that time

No, not really. More like the "war on poverty/urban renewal" programs in combination with Robert Moses E.D. made the Bronx one of NYC's dumping grounds for low income and criminals, as well as white flight.