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Not IME... but few of us (and definitely not me) spent lots of time in every single street or project in every single hood back then or now to do any kind of authoritative survey. I guess crime stats say something though.
I just never caught that 'end of the world' feeling in Harlem or Wash Heights back then like I got in Bushwick. And ENY I never really went in...way too scared for my life. So with respect to that I'm mainly relating my recollections of news reports and friends' experiences.
But I went in Harlem and Wash Heights on my bicycle many times and never felt particularly freaked out. Although a couple of times people did aim their cars at me. But I got hit by trucks twice in midtown & gr.village--deliberately. Those were the days. But I digress
Revis, I'm curious as to why you're doing this research.
I'm trying to write a book about gentrification in major cities and the difference between then and now. It's hard for me to find actual statistics online of every single precinct so I go on here and usually people know.
ROAM AND BIG DRE I'm from Nostrand Ave and Clifton Place, and ROAM you are so on point. The crimes were crazy and all the drugs made it even crazier. I was young but i know. I was there.
I've seen some good people fall hard, good people die or damn near death trying to enjoy the outside jams as we called it in the 80's or at a house party where everyone was invited sporting 69ers sneakers on, and toothbrushes in one pocket and a pick in the other.
I'm at a jam, me and my girls singing and dancing to Fonda Raes Over Like A Fat Rat and out of nowhere shots rang out and we see the guy standing like 10 feet away go down with a bullet in his head....REAL S#@T and the boys from the 79th stayed on overtime and double shifts.
Big Dre from Tompkins, brother I had fam it those projects and its wasn't safe after 2pm yes I said PM. But maybe growing up in that time made me the woman I'm today, Maybe growing up in that time is why I'm alive today no why WE are alive today
Just saying, but you were more likely to get murdered in Harlem than you would in any Brooklyn neighborhood back then.
The 28th precinct in lower Central Harlem had a murder rate of over 100 per 100, 000.
East NY had high RAW homicide totals, but that's because it had much more people in it's precinct boundaries. If you take population into account, Harlem was worse.
watch new jack city. you'll know about manhattan very quickly from nino brown's exploits.
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