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Traffic is outrageous here... it’s miserable... I never remember taking 30-45 min to drive to halfway across the island when I was a kid... now it takes me almost an hour to get to my barbershop on weeknights 😩😩
I can't with the Island anymore. Was thinking of moving back to be closer to family including my mom; but the traffic/congestion and quite frankly changes to the Rock have made me rethink that plan.
Besides nearly everyone I know has moved off SI and or making plans to do so in near future. Would say of my high school class about 65% (or more) have moved off SI.
Sundays, late/over night, holidays things aren't *that* bad. But weekdays? Forget about it.
Not really. What is happening is they are knocking down larger houses on plots of land and in putting in several town homes. The island's infrastructure can't handle all of the construction out there and it shows because of the horrible traffic. The island was developed as a place that was to be low density and the roads still reflect this. Narrow streets and narrow sidewalks...
Making it ultimately unliveable. What will happen as people tire of the conditions they will rent out to new immigrants who can tolerate these conditions better. This is what happened as parts of Queens meant for single family homes got converted to crappy multifamily homes.
Not that there is anything wrong with multifamily homes or apartments per se, but at least but in the infrastructure improvements and the amenities improvements.
Where would this light rail lead to? If the vision is to connect to the Light rail in Bayonne you are still looking at 90 minutes into Manhattan from south or west shore SI.
Where would this light rail lead to? If the vision is to connect to the Light rail in Bayonne you are still looking at 90 minutes into Manhattan from south or west shore SI.
Cannot go directly to the ferry anymore (as trains once did) because the ROI from basically almost everything east of Jersey Street is gone. Much of it became that baseball park, and then came the Wheel/Outlet project.
Making it ultimately unliveable. What will happen as people tire of the conditions they will rent out to new immigrants who can tolerate these conditions better. This is what happened as parts of Queens meant for single family homes got converted to crappy multifamily homes.
Not that there is anything wrong with multifamily homes or apartments per se, but at least but in the infrastructure improvements and the amenities improvements.
But I bet all this is a long term away.
This is happening everywhere in Queens, especially in Eastern Queens. Beautiful single family homes torn down for those ugly beige two and four unit multi-families which look completely out of character.
As for the "whitest" bit; that is mostly true, but slowly changing. AAs are > 12% of SI population and even that number is declining. However dark skinned Hispanic/Latino is another matter.
Overall reason SI is so "white" is because it is primarily a borough of homeowners with relatively little rental housing in comparison. If you can't afford to own, then most likely much of SI isn't for you. It also explains the areas with high concentrations of minorities like AA and others who cannot afford to own are on the North Shore where there is a good amount of rental housing, and extensive public transportation. That and North is more dense than Mid-Island and or South Shore. Meaning you may not necessarily need to own a ride.
In any event Latino/Hispanic numbers are growing and not just in Port Richmond/North Shore, they are moving out to SS as well. Asians of all sorts also are moving out to SI in numbers.
Staten Island *may* have been the last bastion of Italian American New Yorkers, but generation after generation since the 1980's or maybe 1990's that is slowly changing.
Like it or not major boost came from Brooklyn and Queens, but that is starting to slow as Italian American numbers out there are slowly declining as well.
Most of the Italians I know are making tracks off SI (if they haven't already) for NJ, PA, NC or Florida to name a few spots. You make the rounds on Thanksgiving and Christmas and you see ride after ride with NC, FLA, NJ or whatever plates in driveways or parked outside.
Tons of Chinese are moving here. I'm not saying that as if it's a bad thing btw. Having lived here my whole life, I'm actually happy to see a change to the status quo.
Tons of Chinese are moving here. I'm not saying that as if it's a bad thing btw. Having lived here my whole life, I'm actually happy to see a change to the status quo.
Every family member, friend or whoever on SI that has put their home up for sale recently says there were two main people looking to buy; Chinese and Hasidic Jews. Both come with bags/suitcases of cash saying they are willing to go that route if can close the deal *NOW*
Rosebank is slowly becoming a hood. Grasmere slowing going Asian, and so it goes.
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