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Originally Posted by BoogeyDownDweller
Yeah the point is that we don't want another zoo, botanical garden, or stadium. That is precisely what I think the community is trying to avoid. With such a large part of Bronx residents living in poverty the price of admission to these places put all three out of reach of the average Bronx family. They actually act as just tourist destinations. Tourists and folks from Manhattan are the only ones who get to enjoy perhaps the three nicest things about the Bronx. Tickets for the botanical garden, zoo, and cheaps seats at Yankee Stadium run $30 each. That's a utility or phone bill for a family, and most families don't have that kind of disposible income to begin with. The problem is that the botanical garden, zoo, and yankee stadium give very little back to the community in this sense, and so Bronx residents want that to be different with whatever comes out of the armory.
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Well when Fresh Direct got the deal to come to the Bronx and when certain activists opposed it, the city, state, and court system did not give a hoot what the community in the Bronx wanted.
It is the same way with the armory.
What the community will have to address is why are they so poor?
What's really going on? They have excellent train service to Manhattan.
Is it lack of education? Racial discrimination? Laziness? Bad culture? A number of these factors.
Why should the garden, zoo, or stadium give back to the community? They are attractions for ALL NEW YORKERS! And at the same time Bronx residents should be above begging for crumbs.
Address the root causes on poverty in the Bronx and then you'll be able to afford to see a baseball game or go to the zoo.
Anyway the South Bronx is starting to gentrify and you'll end up having displacement of the population.