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University Heights hasn't gentrified at all. There aren't that many new buildings up, like you see in some lower parts of the Bronx. So everything looks the same minus the graffiti.
The area is still poor, but is not as poor as it was. This in my opinion is due to the fact that more people are getting off their feet and working, and not relying on their father or uncle or brother to bring in drug revenue, like most families did back in 1994. The father, brother, or uncle probably got locked up, and people had to start working their way up. And many are earning decently now 15 years later.
Also back in the early 1990's, Dominicans who came to UH and the west Bronx, would immediately start selling drugs. Crime was up as a result. People looked at UH like a foreign third world ghetto ; run down buildings, graffiti, trash, shootings, stabbings and spanish being spoken in the streets. The Dominicans coming in today are actually helping revitalize the neighborhood. They are being displaced from upper Manhattan and move to the Bronx. Here they bring their families and their high work ethics, so there is more sense of community.
The supers of the buildings back then were almost all involved in the drug trade. They didn't care for the condition of the buildings. They were supers by name, and it was mostly to cover up what they were really doing. The ones we have now, clean the buildings and maintain them which is why they look so neat.
I seen a white family in my building recently, but they are still hard to find here. The end of the crack era is the #1 cause for improvement, everything else came as a result of that. But it's still not middle income, poverty is still widespread and I would call it a low income neighborhood still.
It went from 83 murders and being called the "wild west" to just 15 murders. So it has imrpoved alot.
With all that said, currently its still one of the cities worst neighborhood. And one of the precincts covering the area, the 52, is currently on pace to have 774 robberies this year, up from 513 all of last year! No other nabe is even close this year.
Probably the worst neighborhood in the city so far to start the year.
From what i hear you are a police officer do you know what precint has the most robberies right now in the bronx?
From what i hear you are a police officer do you know what precint has the most robberies right now in the bronx?
Im not a police officer but I'm pretty sure the 52nd (University Heights, Fordham-Bedford, Bedford Park and Norwood) is tops. I know you dont believe in the crime statistics but the 52nd is way ahead of anyone else:
Im not a police officer but I'm pretty sure the 52nd (University Heights, Fordham-Bedford, Bedford Park and Norwood) is tops. I know you dont believe in the crime statistics but the 52nd is way ahead of anyone else:
Of course these are just raw totals. By rate this list would look different. But the 52 would be on top.
Thanks. Its only murder stats I dont belive in but i think robbery is on point even though alot of people dont report certain robberies but with the recession i think robber will soar this year in the summer especially
This woman is a living illustration of the constant choice in Harlem. A mad attacker had broken into her apartment and tried to kill her with a big knife. She survived by jumping out a window on the third floor - and was crippled for life.
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Harlem is far from being the worst ghetto in New York. In the South Bronx, where European movie companies now shoot their footage on the destruction of Germany after WW II.
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Harlem is far from being the worst ghetto in New York. In the South Bronx, where European movie companies now shoot their footage on the destruction of Germany after WW II.
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Harlem is far from being the worst ghetto in New York. In the South Bronx, where European movie companies now shoot their footage on the destruction of Germany after WW II.
What European movie company has recently been filming the South Bronx to create footage on the destruction of Germany after WW II ? Where did they shoot ? What blocks ?
What European movie company has recently been filming the South Bronx to create footage on the destruction of Germany after WW II ? Where did they shoot ? What blocks ?
I dont know i just pasted it from the link above.
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