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Those Eastern Queens neighborhoods like Cambria Heights are comparable to Central Queens neighborhoods that experienced white flight. Jackson Heights, Corona Elmhurst, etc are no more dangerous than Cambria Heights, Laurelton, etc. Actually the middle class Black neighorhoods are safer. There's an organized crime seen along Roosevelt Avenue.
White flight was encouraged by realtors who started marketing houses and apartments to black people in some neighborhoods, rather than white people. Do your homework and learn your history.
Rosedale was a mostly white neighborhood, it experienced white flight (who knows why? because black people started moving in and white people got "scared"? about potential crime? about their "property values" going down? whatever), and it remains a middle class low crime neighborhood (just a black one now).
The quality of life has NOT gone down in Rosedale.
And yes, white people were stupid to leave.
The same could be said about some Bronx neighborhoods. Bedford Park and Norwood used to be mostly white working class neighborhoods. Black and Hispanic people started moving in and white people fled. However these neighborhoods remained and still remain working class neighborhoods, just black and Hispanic working class neighborhoods now, instead of Jewish, Irish, and Italian working class neighborhoods.
Norwood was one of the main spots for chronic drug problems after the Irish fled *EN MASSE* to Woodlawn and never looked back. Am thinking you need to try harder. Bedford Park and Norwood certainly have their problems.
Whites had to leave Rosedale and all of Southeast Queens for that matter. Prices for homes were plummeting or they were made to believe that they would as others moved in or whatever. If your nest egg was going down the drain, am thinking you'd do the same.
What's a comparable white neighborhood to those neighborhood? For that matter, what is crime?
You yourself smoke marijuana recreationally. That is ILLEGAL in NYS. You're buying it illegally and consuming it illegally.
Saying there's more crime in Black neighborhoods is a very simple minded (and I do mean simple as in low IQ) of saying Black people are "bad". But these small words for for little children and special ed cases.
Back to you Mr. hypocrite, you clearly aren't worried about people following the law all the time since you break it all the time.
I think there should be a get together of forum conservatives. I would love to see G-Dale smoking a blunt in front of Airborneguy. Airborneguy, would you arrest any of your fellow conservatives like G-Dale if they recreationally used a banned substance in your presence?
Idiot.
Germany pays Holocaust reparations to Jewish Holocaust survivors ALL OVER THE WORLD.
Do you really not know this, or are you trying to be obnoxious and offensive?
How much does that amount to after considering the time value of money? And it's definitely not a perpetuity, that is for sure.
How much does that amount to after considering the time value of money? And it's definitely not a perpetuity, that is for sure.
What?
Some Holocaust survivors get $500 or $1000 a month from Germany.
(Others got a lump sum, depending on the reparations program).
And yes, Germany has committed to continuing payments until there are no more survivors left.
They are doing a good job of living up to this so far, as the absolute youngest of survivors are well into their 70s by now.
Those Eastern Queens neighborhoods like Cambria Heights are comparable to Central Queens neighborhoods that experienced white flight. Jackson Heights, Corona Elmhurst, etc are no more dangerous than Cambria Heights, Laurelton, etc. Actually the middle class Black neighorhoods are safer. There's an organized crime seen along Roosevelt Avenue.
The middle class black neighborhoods in Eastern Queens (Laurelton, etc.) are MUCH safer than Jackson Heights, Corona, etc.
Right. And there were no alcohol problems when it was a mostly Irish neighborhood?
Never said anything about alcohol. Was referring to hard *drugs*.
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Norwood was one of the main spots for chronic drug problems after the Irish fled *EN MASSE* to Woodlawn and never looked back. Am thinking you need to try harder. Bedford Park and Norwood certainly have their problems.
Whites had to leave Rosedale and all of Southeast Queens for that matter. Prices for homes were plummeting or they were made to believe that they would as others moved in or whatever. If your nest egg was going down the drain, am thinking you'd do the same.
Mostly white Staten Island's opiate epidemic is so bad they are overdosing in the ferry terminal.
There's a severe opiod epidemic among white people in places like Staten Island, the suburbs, etc. Selling opiates on the street, and using them is very illegal.
So white people moving to mostly white neighborhoods certainly did not help them escape "crime".