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Ok, so my daughter has been in NYC for a couple of years living in Chelsea with her boyfriend; living the good life.
All of a sudden I get an emotional call this afternoon, they are breaking up, she has to find a place to live, and has found a place on the "upper east side."
Well, I am a bumpkin, but it was a couple weeks ago since I fell off the turnip truck, so I pursued, and asked "Well, how upper is upper?"
She fessed up that the apt was on E 98th Street, which "technically was in southern Harlem, since "most" people have the dividing line as E 96th." "Most, right"
I don't care about southern Harlem, so much as I worry about your safety map. I see on the safety map that it is yellow.
She has been up there two years, lived in Astoria for awhile and now in Chelsea. She is film and has worked all over the City, so I feel like she should be fine, but.....Should I be freaking out, or what? I know there are no guarantees, but just wanted some opinions.
Ok, so my daughter has been in NYC for a couple of years living in Chelsea with her boyfriend; living the good life.
All of a sudden I get an emotional call this afternoon, they are breaking up, she has to find a place to live, and has found a place on the "upper east side."
Well, I am a bumpkin, but it was a couple weeks ago since I fell off the turnip truck, so I pursued, and asked "Well, how upper is upper?"
She fessed up that the apt was on E 98th Street, which "technically was in southern Harlem, since "most" people have the dividing line as E 96th." "Most, right"
I don't care about southern Harlem, so much as I worry about your safety map. I see on the safety map that it is yellow.
She has been up there two years, lived in Astoria for awhile and now in Chelsea. She is film and has worked all over the City, so I feel like she should be fine, but.....Should I be freaking out, or what? I know there are no guarantees, but just wanted some opinions.
Thanks.
lln
Buy her a plane, but or rail ticket home back to suburbia. Enough said. Her NYC escapades are over.
She will definitely start dating interracialy very often (to find herself and get back at her ex) so if your ok with that then yes she will be fine. And I'm talking Lil Wayne type black guys not the nice lawyer/Doctor type. Just sayin...
The "dividing line" on 96th street was simply because a subway station for the main east side line is on 96th street, and "Carnegie Hill" creates a physical transition there. Historically, the suburban rail also came above-ground at 96th street. In the 1980s, some massive apartment buildings were built along 95th/96th street that face south, which bolstered the "divide" idea. But gentrification pushed further north in the past 20 years. There is a substantial housing project on 97th street, but not viewed as particularly unsafe (or any less safe than the even larger one in Chelsea from whence she came). So, if she acts safe, she ought to be safe.
As long as she is not living between Second and Third Avenue, she'll be fine.
Kefir is referring to the Washington-Carver housing projects in the area. I assume she isn't living in the projects.
The area is comparatively safe these days and is in transition as gentrification pushes up to 110th Sreet (old busted up buildings being renovated and all). I lived there for awhile. I did not hang out with people from the housing projects and somehow I doubt the OP's daughter will either.
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