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It's not that bad. Most common thing is robberies around the El. I wouldn't call the area "up and coming" though. If anything it has been seeing a slow decline.
No, it doesn't. It needs to a) build more housing and b) lower taxes to encourage job growth and contruction.
Also, what's wrong with moving out of the city. Thousands of people do that every year.
a) need more land to build more housing, which NYC no longer has!
b) That's been done, with these tax abatements on luxury condos! Good in the short term, but will create a seriously uneven and unfair property tax distribution in the long run!
I haved life in the Bronx for 38 years now..I must say the Bronx has changed. However it's like everywhere else you have the good and the bad areas..A nice place to look at would be White Plains Road toward Clason Point..Very nice neighborhood..Tremont area I would stay away from....Then again you got Tremont going down by throgg neck and there are very nice area there..So do your homework before you make a decision..Rents are increasing by the numbers....Good luck..
As a native Bronx resident, I can say that up-and-coming does not really apply to the Bronx the way it has traditionally applied to neighborhoods. Since the Bronx was decimated for a host of reasons, up and coming neighborhoods in the Bronx means there are now supermarkets, laundromats, stable crime rates, rehabbed housing (although still low income), and other basic amenities that make the area liveable, although not nice, trendy, or pleasant by any stretch.
If you seek up and coming, the Bronx is at best just waking up from a 30 year coma...life is still much the same it was back then. It has certianly improved from the burnt out shells and rampant crime, however it still has a ways to go before it is liveable by any 1st world standard.
did u hear about the gun battle that happened a few weeks ago at the park ? one ended up shot and in critical condition. dont know if he survived.
regardless, its an overall safe park. my ex was from crosby ave, and we frequented it often, during the day and night. occasionally things can happen though (its still the bronx lol).
did u hear about the gun battle that happened a few weeks ago at the park ? one ended up shot and in critical condition. dont know if he survived.
regardless, its an overall safe park. my ex was from crosby ave, and we frequented it often, during the day and night. occasionally things can happen though (its still the bronx lol).
Where?
Hunter's Island? Down where the dump used to be, by the WWI monument?
I once got a tour of Hunter's Island, by Dr. Ted Kasimiroff himself. If ever a man loved the Bronx, it was he.
There's a trail that goes around the margin, by the shore...it's the southernmost piece of rocky coastline on the Eastern Seaboard. There's a fresh water spring there, somewhere. And, in late September, there's a patch of New England Aster, most beautiful of autumn wildflowers.
I've gone hiking there even on crowded summer weekends and seen nary a soul. Hell, I could probably live there.
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