Greenville, NJ 07305 - Jersey City, NJ (Newark: neighborhood, live in, racist)

[njkate]

Originally Posted by JERSEY MAN

That address is not up and coming, I worked by that address for 25 years. If up and coming to you is the bloods and crips getting it on, then its up and coming. Are you for real. There are a strip of 6 apartment buildings attached to each other that are drug infested right there. I would say it's a tad more than a bit scary. How about life threatening because of the shootings and muggings taken place. Please whoever reads this is one of the worst blocks in JC. If it was so good it would have been rented already. I would check the dictionary and look up blossum again sir.

I know I dam near choked on my coffee on that one

[dvine]

Originally Posted by DessertRat

For one, nowhere in Greenville has Journal Square right "at the doorstep". The Journal Square area is called just that, not Greenville. Other neighborhoods separate Journal Square and Greenville. I could probably walk from the northern end of Greenville to the Journal Square PATH in under 20 minutes, but I walk relatively fast, and most of Greenville is further away than that; you'd probably have to take the city bus to Journal Square.

Most of Greenville is still an African-American neighborhood. Parts of it are what many folks would call "ghetto". Like any urban area, there is crime there, and statistically, there is more crime in the Greenville area than there is in many other parts of Jersey City, even though you're far less unlikely to be a crime victim yourself if you are not typically involved in criminal activities, gangs, etc. There are also some very nice homes, including beautiful older Victorian homes, in Greenville, and because of the other factors, they can be had for much less money than elsewhere. But that combination of factors will cause most of the folks who post here to advise you not to go anywhere near it. And especially because those views are common, I definitely wouldn't advise anyone to buy in Greenville without checking it out in person first, and I don't mean just driving through once or twice. You'd have to spend some time in the area and hang out there a bit.

So . . . based on the little information I have or can infer about you, you'd be better off looking elsewhere (which seems to be what you've decided to do).

First of all ur comment is racist and stereotypical.. i'm african-american and its amazing that people like you are quick to assume because african-americans are n the community that it must be god awful.. What about all the puerto ricans that live in those areas.. Oh let me guess they can't commit crimes.. Oh and let me guess, caucasians don't commit crimes either right? it is what it is.. but don't blame one ethnicity on why the area is the way that it is!!!!!!!

[DragonXJC]

Originally Posted by dvine

First of all ur comment is racist and stereotypical.. i'm african-american and its amazing that people like you are quick to assume because african-americans are n the community that it must be god awful.. What about all the puerto ricans that live in those areas.. Oh let me guess they can't commit crimes.. Oh and let me guess, caucasians don't commit crimes either right? it is what it is.. but don't blame one ethnicity on why the area is the way that it is!!!!!!!

As a Latino, I agree. Crime has no ethnicity just oppurtunity. There are plenty of white crack fiends in Greenville, as well as hispanic drug dealers and addicts.

And as I say it over and over, Greenville is much more then an African-American community. What about in Country Village? Westside's large Filipino community? Society Hill? Alot of posters seem AS USUAL, are outsiders and are commenting from their experiences driving by or what they heard it is like.

[njkate]

Originally Posted by DragonXJC

As a Latino, I agree. Crime has no ethnicity just oppurtunity. There are plenty of white crack fiends in Greenville, as well as hispanic drug dealers and addicts.

And as I say it over and over, Greenville is much more then an African-American community. What about in Country Village? Westside's large Filipino community? Society Hill? Alot of posters seem AS USUAL, are outsiders and are commenting from their experiences driving by or what they heard it is like.

Actually most of the posters either reside in JC or grew up there.
Greenville, a good dam part of it, is like a war zone..Garfield,Arlington,Ocean, MLK ( Jackson Ave) Bergen, Old Bergen.. and all the streets running through there are deplorable....

[njkate]

Originally Posted by dvine

First of all ur comment is racist and stereotypical.. i'm african-american and its amazing that people like you are quick to assume because african-americans are n the community that it must be god awful.. What about all the puerto ricans that live in those areas.. Oh let me guess they can't commit crimes.. Oh and let me guess, caucasians don't commit crimes either right? it is what it is.. but don't blame one ethnicity on why the area is the way that it is!!!!!!!

Explain why then back in the 50's, 60's and a good part of the 70's the area of Greenville, mostly white, at that time, was not like this??? I mean when I left you had middle class working neighborhoods...hell I could go to the park on Audubon & Arlington with no problems...wouldn't dare step foot there now

It became that way after the "white flight" of the 70's out of Jersey City..the neighborhoods slowly went down hill and eroded...

My comment is not racist it's realist..it is what it is unfortunately. i feel for any decent working family be they blsck, hispanic or white having to live in those neighborhoods.

[kungfulou]

you don't go to Jersey City on purpose, you drive through it when you are lost.
anything else is plain foolish

[marye711]

Originally Posted by njkate

I know I dam near choked on my coffee on that one

OMG lol Kate

[njkate]

Originally Posted by marye711

OMG lol Kate

Marye...you have no idea what that neighborhood is like..omg
remember our tiff about Victory Gardens....VG is PARADISE compared to this block in Jersey City

[DragonXJC]

Originally Posted by njkate

Explain why then back in the 50's, 60's and a good part of the 70's the area of Greenville, mostly white, at that time, was not like this??? I mean when I left you had middle class working neighborhoods...hell I could go to the park on Audubon & Arlington with no problems...wouldn't dare step foot there now

It became that way after the "white flight" of the 70's out of Jersey City..the neighborhoods slowly went down hill and eroded...

My comment is not racist it's realist..it is what it is unfortunately. i feel for any decent working family be they blsck, hispanic or white having to live in those neighborhoods.

We still have middle class working neighborhoods. And I have no problem walking through Audobon park or any place in Jersey City, why are you so scared? This fear is making you blind. Watching too much TV, reading to many newspapers?.......Because it is surely not because you actually come here. I love my neighborhood. My parents do to and they continue to live here even though they own several properties. With that attitude, you did us a favor by leaving.

[njkate]

Originally Posted by DragonXJC

We still have middle class working neighborhoods. And I have no problem walking through Audobon park or any place in Jersey City, why are you so scared? This fear is making you blind. Watching too much TV, reading to many newspapers?.......Because it is surely not because you actually come here. I love my neighborhood. My parents do to and they continue to live here even though they own several properties. With that attitude, you did us a favor by leaving.

No actually I HAVE been through there recently.
I also have a few friends on JCPD...please spare me....also have a friend at work who lives on Bidwell .....had mentioned to her that when I was a child had lived on Arlington Ave and went to Sacred Heart..would love to see that church again.....she looked at me and said .."Are you crazy?? You don't need to be walking around that neighborhood" She LIVES there

Go away for awhile and then go back...you're immune because you're living this everyday.