Even The Bronx Has a Lower Murder Rate Than Most US Cities (New York: transplants, 2013)
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Something I've been saying for a long time but now The Bronx's murder rate is even lower than Boston which is considered one of the safest cities in the US.
Fox News tells me all the time that this country is being run into the ground by socialist hippies and that New York is a murderville because people can't own assault rifles! And I know Fox News never lies, so that link is a bunch of Stalinist-atheist propaganda.
Supermario will disagree. I do have to say many thugs outside NYC say the bronx aint @#&@. You know what they are right! Sad thing is that historically Bronx has been known for its high crime rate from prohibition era to crack cocaine era.
Last edited by Bronxguyanese; 01-23-2013 at 10:15 PM..
The Bronx has gone through significant gentrification and urban renewal. Many working people have moved into new or renovated apartments in the borough's most blighted neighborhoods. Places that were once only home to the poorest of the poor. There is a lot more income diversity, even in the South Bronx.
The Bronx has and is still mostly improving. NYC in general is has been going through a renaissance.
However, on the flipside I will mention that violent crime has only become even more concentrated in certsin areas, among certain demographics.
These days Brownsville and East New York are the worse areas of the city. Bad areas of the Bronx are much better than those two Brooklyn neighborhoods. But then there are cities out there that are worse than Bad areas of Brooklyn.
The Bronx has gone through significant gentrification and urban renewal. Many working people have moved into new or renovated apartments in the borough's most blighted neighborhoods. Places that were once only home to the poorest of the poor. There is a lot more income diversity, even in the South Bronx.
The Bronx has and is still mostly improving. NYC in general is has been going through a renaissance.
However, on the flipside I will mention that violent crime has only become even more concentrated in certsin areas, among certain demographics.
Gentrification? Significant? The Bronx? WHERE?!
To have "gentfication", you need GENTRY! No "gentry", no gentrification.
Not to mention the fact that Gentrification and Urban Renewal are POLAR OPPOSITES!!
Urban Renewal, by definition, is government intervention into the market. Government designed, government financed, and normally follows some idiotic architectural *theory*.
Urban Renewal is foisted upon the people from on high. Think Robert Moses.
Gentrification, by definition, and action, is a 'grass roots' *organic* effort by PRIVATE individuals.
Gentrification emanates from and is financed by those who benefit from it. Think all those Transplants moving into Harlem, privately financing purchase and renovation, without benefit of government loans or guarantees; and, the asthetic is of an organic rather than *designed* nature.
The two are politically juxtaposed.
Gentrification normally succeeds in transformation. Urban Renewal, generally, fails in its grandiose ambition of transformation.
Gentrification is Capitalism at work. Urban Renewal is Socialism!
This is true... I moved to the bronx and am surprised that most people are very nice , hard working individuals ! Its the few bad apples thar ruin the bunch.
Please dont let the (priced out of BK) hipsters get word of this...they will move here and raise my rent
Places that were once only home to the poorest of the poor. There is a lot more income diversity, even in the South Bronx.
Maybe more than it used to be, I wouldn't know. But looking at this map, the South Bronx looks like a large block concentrated relative poverty. A bit over half (about 55%) of households earn less than $30k/year and barely over 20% earn more than 50k/year.
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