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12-29-2008, 08:28 PM
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Jamaica Queens
Is this a bad area? I have been looking at houses there but they all have bars on the windows any suggestions?
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12-29-2008, 10:27 PM
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Parts of it are bad and the rest is not great. Maybe the bars on the windows are to deter the squatters, junkies and drug dealers that have been moving into all the foreclosed homes.
Foreclosures in Jamaica now home to squatters, druggies - making ghost town
Friendly streets once populated by predominantly black, working-class families in starter homes are now haunted by drug dealers and squatters.
Vacant, litter-strewn yards have become the norm for residential blocks like 118th Ave. and 152nd St., the epicenter of the foreclosure crisis in Queens.
Queens Crap: Squatters occupy foreclosed homes |
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12-30-2008, 06:34 PM
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Yes it's bad.
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12-30-2008, 06:41 PM
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depends on what part of jamaica.
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12-30-2008, 06:54 PM
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its not bad at all. during, my 4 years of college, i lived in jamaica hills. but anywhere, that's near jamaica ave, is where the crimes that occurs.
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12-30-2008, 06:58 PM
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Southside and Baisley is what I think of when people ask whether Jamaica is bad or not. The majority of the residents are hard working blue collar people trying to earn an honest living and provide for their families, but the minority of trouble makers is enough to spoil it.
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12-30-2008, 07:06 PM
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True. I stayed away from that area. Only times, that I'm in that area is when I need to take the LIRR to go home.
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12-31-2008, 02:47 AM
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Southside is bad, avoid the Guy Brewer/South Road area. The South Jamaica houses are pretty wild.
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12-31-2008, 05:13 PM
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arguably the worse neighborhood in the five boros. having said that its Beverly Hills compared to Camden or North Philly.
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12-31-2008, 09:07 PM
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^^^ Jamaica is too large of an area to lump together. Some parts are bad, some are ehh, some are actually nice.
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