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Crime usually increases in the summer months. I don't get why. If its hot Id prefer to sit in my cool apt and run the AC as needed versus running around town.
And no matter what your income bracket it you can afford to run an AC. The new models run on next to nothing.
Tokyo and London are world class cities. Most Latin American countries are in economic despair and benefit off of the drug trade
It's not just poverty either. There are many Asian countries with high poverty but low homicide rates. Some Latin American countries are like that as well.
The Bronx suffers from the same socio-economic violence that plagues other dense areas and its all related to drugs, poverty , and women. The issue with the with Bronx is that it has a tremendous amount of all of the above.
The Bronx suffers from the same socio-economic violence that plagues other dense areas and its all related to drugs, poverty , and women. The issue with the with Bronx is that it has a tremendous amount of all of the above.
NYC sending the poor to The Bronx hipsters want Brooklyn and Queens
No, the poor trying hard to prevent everybody else from moving to the Bronx (per my own experience).
It’s more that the Bronx in comparison to Queens and Brooklyn has most of its neighborhoods much further away from the main employment centers in Manhattan. It’s only fairly recently that people and housing prices have pushed enough people with decent paying jobs out far enough in the poorer neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens that the poorer neighborhoods Bronx has become an attractive alternative which also accounts for why so much new development has concentrated itself in Mott Haven and Port Morris.
If and when Metro-North routes to Penn Station with stops in the Bronx and a reasonable fare is probably when you’ll start seeing a sea change in how people view the Bronx since at that point another portion of the borough will have a short commute to the employment centers of Manhattan and potentially to Westchester and Connecticut. That’s still at least several years away, though meanwhile development will continue to expand through the South Bronx.
Much of the development in the South Bronx that has been controversial ended up getting done anyhow--just with fairly minor concessions in regards to affordable housing and things like community centers and local employment. It's not really just a flat out tabling of development. Basically, a lot more noise than actual action when it comes to the politics as rezoning and development has simply continued to barrel on--you'll see that on the ground with the way the parts of the Bronx closest to the employment centers have seen some of the largest percentage rental price increases in the entire city.
Even with the murder rate increases in the borough, that should be put in context of having some historically low murder rates last year. A time sample that short will have local spikes, but the trendlines over larger periods have been downwards, so it seems like it's much too early to call this an actual move towards the Bronx becoming more dangerous.
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It’s more that the Bronx in comparison to Queens and Brooklyn has most of its neighborhoods much further away from the main employment centers in Manhattan. It’s only fairly recently that people and housing prices have pushed enough people with decent paying jobs out far enough in the poorer neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens that the poorer neighborhoods Bronx has become an attractive alternative which also accounts for why so much new development has concentrated itself in Mott Haven and Port Morris.
If and when Metro-North routes to Penn Station with stops in the Bronx and a reasonable fare is probably when you’ll start seeing a sea change in how people view the Bronx since at that point another portion of the borough will have a short commute to the employment centers of Manhattan and potentially to Westchester and Connecticut. That’s still at least several years away, though meanwhile development will continue to expand through the South Bronx.
Much of the development in the South Bronx that has been controversial ended up getting done anyhow--just with fairly minor concessions in regards to affordable housing and things like community centers and local employment. It's not really just a flat out tabling of development. Basically, a lot more noise than actual action when it comes to the politics as rezoning and development has simply continued to barrel on--you'll see that on the ground with the way the parts of the Bronx closest to the employment centers have seen some of the largest percentage rental price increases in the entire city.
Even with the murder rate increases in the borough, that should be put in context of having some historically low murder rates last year. A time sample that short will have local spikes, but the trendlines over larger periods have been downwards, so it seems like it's much too early to call this an actual move towards the Bronx becoming more dangerous.
Enough with the "The Bronx". The entire borough is a not a cesspool. To all of you that keep saying "THE BRONX", it is only SELECT areas of the Bronx with a crime problem, and it's about time that people STOP saying the Bronx. It is NOT the entire borough! It's annoying to keep reading this false information. Every borough has its problems and it is unfair and down right ignorant to categorize an entire borough when talking about such issues.
Much of Far Rockaway is a dump, yet the entire borough isn't categorized as one, nor should it be. Where in the hell do you live that you keep making such ignorant comments?
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