Well I finally returned the other day -
My mother and I made a trip to Patchogue, and sure enough there was a decent amount of foot traffic and cars in the village around main street. Still though I must have counted a dozen vacant storefronts.
However, after we ate our Italian meal, we drove east and north to drive by our old house (off of Sipp Ave between Sunrise & Woodside). I must say it was pretty sad to see - just driving down Woodside coming up to the light, the fences on the left were graffiti filled and literally falling over; when we pulled into the development, it didn't look all that bad - but some things never change. Living room windows had tape holding them together, our old house still had graffiti on the white picket fence (haha, irony).
My mother recalled an instance in which a neighbor had a broken living room window and didn't fix it for the whole year. Cars got stolen down the block, then ours got taken, houses were burglarized. My parents bought into the development new in 1984 I think, but it just changed so much in the 90's.
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