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[quote=Hustla718;1149381]Did you get to see the video of the New Rochelle PD kicking all the Bronx/Harlem teens out of New Roc City and into the Metro North past Easter? What a mess. First they were kicked out the car show in Manhattan by NYPD due to gang activity and a stabbing so the bulk of them went to New Roc City. When they got there they started causing trouble. 3 teens from the Bronx were arrested for assualting police. Shots were fired and the cops litterally pushed them back into the trains.
Back to the ghettos of NYC you go! Haha.
Here is a video from a Bronx teen depictiing the story. Haha:
New Rochelle has some rough parts. They've had problems at New Roc City, just with the locals.
Of course but nothing on the scale of NYC. New Rochelle PD was overwhelmed with these teens alone. They never had a situation like that in the history of New Roc City.
What the Bronx needs most of all is for more people like Yodel to move there and transform the community. And I do not mean that in a condescending way.
The thing is the downfall of the Bronx was, along with Detroit, probably the most notorious example of urban decay. It was almost metaphysical how the blight wiped out a huge chunk of what is essentially a seperate city, at least geographically. So all things considered, its a tall order to repair all of that and while its possible, its going to take time.
What the Bronx needs most of all is for more people like Yodel to move there and transform the community. And I do not mean that in a condescending way.
The thing is the downfall of the Bronx was, along with Detroit, probably the most notorious example of urban decay. It was almost metaphysical how the blight wiped out a huge chunk of what is essentially a seperate city, at least geographically. So all things considered, its a tall order to repair all of that and while its possible, its going to take time.
Tis obvious. A person who has purchased a home and refurbished it. A person who believes in where he lives. What else would any community want?
Yodel is a mother who's knowledge of "the streets" is the name of her block. That's my two cents.
We need people who understand the community and want to change things, not idiots who are too naive to know something is wrong. Those of course will be locals. Male youth from the streets that honestly have changed their ways. Trying to better the next generation, teach them right from wrong and the consequences of life on the street. We also need a change in the way parents raise their kids. Staying together might help but when you get banged by a 25 year old when your 14, the guy usually is not gonna stick around. Never gonna happen.
Doing it the way you suggest. Naive people moving in, then trying to get more people to move in to raise rent/push poor out the neighborhood is just typical gentrification and does better for no one but the people who buy out the poor.
Look at the LES, an area which has pretty much completely gentrified. The only original residents you will find there live in the PJ's (and they are still ****). The poor got the boot.
lol. I find it funny to read your posts, Hustla. You think you know better than everyone else because you have family here, or there, or worked close to every single area.
lol. I find it funny to read your posts, Hustla. You think you know better than everyone else because you have family here, or there, or worked close to every single area.
It's highly amusing.
Yodel - pay no mind.
Why don't you finish High School before you start making assumptions in convestions on topics you know nothing of. If this is your way of getting back at me over the "best carib island" thread, sorry but your wrong in both cases.
I am sure that Hustla and the other negative posters have had bad experiences with/knowledge of the Bronx. But this is not 1990 anymore. There is no crack epidemic. Why would the real estate section of every newspaper, big $ investors, the city and people who actually live in the nabe NOW lie? It really doesn't make sense. I can tell you from a first hand resident's lived experience...Bedford Park is not sliding into oblivion, in fact it is doing quite the opposite. These are the facts of 2007 NOT 1977 or 1997......
Doing it the way you suggest. Naive people moving in, then trying to get more people to move in to raise rent/push poor out the neighborhood is just typical gentrification and does better for no one but the people who buy out the poor.
Well, your typical gentrification is alot more doable than the paradigm shift you suggest. Gentrification, as you correctly imply, involves swapping residents- prosperous for poor. With money comes rebirth of the area, although not for the original residents who move on to other places.
What you suggest is certainly appealing and is ultimately the solution. But you are dealing with culture and although said culture can change, it takes a long, long time.
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