Brooklyn Up and Coming? (New York, York: real estate, apartments, rent) - Page 3 - City-Data Forum

mhogan10010 · 06-22-2007, 10:20 AM

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Who gives a ****?

Next time might want to double up on the Prozac.

EugeneBKLYN · 06-22-2007, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by mhogan10010

Next time might want to double up on the Prozac.

Get fisted.

scatman · 06-22-2007, 11:24 AM

Brooklyn is much more developed than it was in the late 70s! Now, the tradeoff is that housing and everything else is much more expensive, but.....

Some people want to go back in the day....As a BK native, I say "we've been there, done that!" In addition, I wouldn't wish the crack epidemic of the 80s on anyone!!!!!

Hustla718 · 06-22-2007, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by scatman

Brooklyn is much more developed than it was in the late 70s! Now, the tradeoff is that housing and everything else is much more expensive, but.....

Some people want to go back in the day....As a BK native, I say "we've been there, done that!" In addition, I wouldn't wish the crack epidemic of the 80s on anyone!!!!!

Blah, the crack epidemic wasn't as bad as people make it out to be. Growing up through it, most of those who were killed were scum anyway. And I grew up in a top 5 murder citywide murder precinct, 100+ homicides a year. You still have to take the same precautions today when you go out. Especially in low income areas.

scatman · 06-22-2007, 03:36 PM

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Blah, the crack epidemic wasn't as bad as people make it out to be. Growing up through it, most of those who were killed were scum anyway. And I grew up in a top 5 murder citywide murder precinct, 100+ homicides a year. You still have to take the same precautions today when you go out. Especially in low income areas.

Wasn't as bad as people make it out to be? Have you ever had your own neighbor break into your apartment from the roof of an 8-floor NYCHA, and attempt to do it three more times, due to that glass ding-a-ling?????? And then a fourth time, set your mom up for a stickup?????

Man, Tompkins Houses was a good place to be growing up! Yeah, it was, and then that crack just took anybody and everybody away! The social fabric of that hood was just ruined!!!!!!

NooYowkur81 · 06-22-2007, 03:41 PM

I grew up through part of the crack epidemic in Washington Heights and Harlem. It was much worse than anything you see now.

A lot more innocent people got caught up in stuff back then. Crack makes people do all kinds of nonsense and they don't care. They would do anything to get high again.

Drug activity was a lot more out in the open as well.

Hustla718 · 06-22-2007, 03:57 PM

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Wasn't as bad as people make it out to be? Have you ever had your own neighbor break into your apartment from the roof of an 8-floor NYCHA, and attempt to do it three more times, due to that glass ding-a-ling?????? And then a fourth time, set your mom up for a stickup?????

Man, Tompkins Houses was a good place to be growing up! Yeah, it was, and then that crack just took anybody and everybody away! The social fabric of that hood was just ruined!!!!!!

Everything you just stated I see everyday working. Not much has changed over the years. It just slowed down but there is still a lot of crime. You really have to take the same precautions, especially in low income areas. People forget, 600 people are murdered in NYC every year. Thousands are robbed and assualted. It's still a lot of crime.

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I grew up through part of the crack epidemic in Washington Heights and Harlem. It was much worse than anything you see now.

A lot more innocent people got caught up in stuff back then. Crack makes people do all kinds of nonsense and they don't care. They would do anything to get high again.

Drug activity was a lot more out in the open as well.

There are areas in the city currently where the drug activity didn't really subside much. Crack still exist as well, there are still plenty crack houses in areas like the South Bronx and East NY. Unfortunatly that drug is still around, we are also seeing more heroin making a come back, and weed and alchohol are a problem as well that just won't go away.

wanderlost · 06-23-2007, 07:47 AM

One thing I love about New Yorkers is that even when they're arguing there's still a certain amount of respect......New Yorkers are basically pretty tolerant people. I'm currently living in Richmond, VA, and here there is true hatred for certain groups...blacks, gays, etc. It's sad. If you were to read the Rant and Rave section on Richmond's Craigslist you'd see what I mean. When New Yorkers argue they rarely take jabs at people's race or sexual orientation. But to get back to the thread...having college grads, yuppies, hard working single parents or whatever moving into an area can't be a bad thing. Would you rather have low income housing projects going up? Hard working people who care about their communities is a good thing...not to say that people in housing projects aren't hard working...but I think you get the point.

Hustla718 · 06-23-2007, 03:06 PM

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One thing I love about New Yorkers is that even when they're arguing there's still a certain amount of respect......New Yorkers are basically pretty tolerant people. I'm currently living in Richmond, VA, and here there is true hatred for certain groups...blacks, gays, etc. It's sad. If you were to read the Rant and Rave section on Richmond's Craigslist you'd see what I mean. When New Yorkers argue they rarely take jabs at people's race or sexual orientation. But to get back to the thread...having college grads, yuppies, hard working single parents or whatever moving into an area can't be a bad thing. Would you rather have low income housing projects going up? Hard working people who care about their communities is a good thing...not to say that people in housing projects aren't hard working...but I think you get the point.

Many people who live in low income areas work very hard. Single parent mothers working minimum wage on section 8. Grandparents raising two or three of their children's children. Mexican workers painting homes in parts of Queens and Staten Island. Long time residents making community gardens with the kids in what were once vacant lots.

Yuppies start to move into a low income area and do no more then raise the rent. All other problems stay the same. What a lot of people don't understand, these yuppies do not have much in common with the local population and do not associate themselves with them. It's basically two different worlds. A pefect example of the income and social disparity in NYC.

Look at the Lower East Side. Yuppies shifted most of the old population out of that neighborhood. However go east of Avenue D along the river and it's the old poverty stricken ghetto LES. The same old problems.

scatman · 06-23-2007, 04:12 PM

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Yuppies start to move into a low income area and do no more then raise the rent. All other problems stay the same. What a lot of people don't understand, these yuppies do not have much in common with the local population and do not associate themselves with them. It's basically two different worlds. A pefect example of the income and social disparity in NYC.

Look at the Lower East Side. Yuppies shifted most of the old population out of that neighborhood. However go east of Avenue D along the river and it's the old poverty stricken ghetto LES. The same old problems.

Just remember, Park Slope used to be a well known gangsta neighborhood (no one wants to tell you that history!). Not all neighborhoods that are gentroed have 'stay the same problems'.