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Originally Posted by NooYowkur81
What's wrong with the map? Looks accurate to me.
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That whole stretch isn't Fordham. Fordham you can say is 183rd up to Fordham Road. But only between Park and Jerome Aves. Fordham-Bedford is just north of that, to Bedford Park Blvd. West of Jerome is Univerisity Hights north of BXCC. East of Park is East Tremont, except for the neighborhood northeast of Third, that's Belmont.
We were talking mainly about Bedford Park, which is north of Bedford Park Blvd to the Pkwy. Then Norwood which is north of the Pkwy to VC Park. A little was mentioned about Fordham Bedford, Fordham Road to Bedford Park Blvd.
Of all the neighborhoods mentioned the worst are Fordham, Fordham-Bedford, University Heights, and East Tremont. Belmont has a two or three blocks near Fordham University that are not too bad. Belmont Ave at Fordham Road. It's almost gone though. The rest is like East Tremont. Bedford Park is declining fast, south to north. Norwood is declineing north to south. There are still a few "okay" pockets near the Pkwy in Norwood and Bedford Park, mostly to the northwest. Also a few blocks right up on Van Courtland Park.
Here are a few things that made me laught I read in this Times article:
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There is construction all around, she said, including a row of new houses by Jerome Avenue where there used to be a parking lot.
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Jerome is ugly as hell and ground zero for a lot of criminal activity thanks to the El. Protitutes, drugs, ect. It's also desolite since it's mostly garages.
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She had also come to appreciate the area’s casual friendliness. “You see people sitting outside their houses, and they say hi to you,” Ms. Nuñez said. “You see the kids playing street basketball, sitting outside in the neighborhood.”
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BULL****.
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The couple recently went into contract on a single-family house near the corner of Davidson Avenue and Fordham Road. Ms. Nuñez said they are paying $339,000.
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Depending on what side of Fordham Road they live on, they are in Blood or Crip territory. I hope they don't have kids.
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The area avoided the urban blight that struck the southern parts of the Bronx in the 1970s and ’80s
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These people honestly have NO idea what they are talking about.
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Fordham University’s Rose Hill campus lies at the road’s eastern end, but its profile is surprisingly low: an identification card is required to get on campus.
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Yet students still get robbed ON campus.
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To the south of campus are the tree-lined streets of the Belmont section, where busloads of tourists flock to Arthur Avenue and restaurants like Dominick’s and Pasquale’s Rigoletto.
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Sorry but Belmont is no longer the Little Italy of the Bronx. Has not been in a LONG time.
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The areas north of Fordham Road, and to the west toward the University Heights neighborhood along the Harlem River, are mostly full of five- and six-story brick apartment buildings, many with Dominican and Puerto Rican flags hanging from their fire escapes. On a hot day, the streets teem with people, and old women sit on folding chair selling ices from carts.
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True, they should also mentioned the Reggaeton and Rap music blasting, all night long. The young men standing on the corners and stoops 24/7. Appearing to do nothing. Of course they are innocent.
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Two-family houses in the area generally sell for around $450,000, with three-family houses going for $650,000 to $800,000 and up, said Yesenia Flores, an agent at Exit Realty Van Zandt. Prices vary, though, based on recent renovations and on amenities like parking.
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Or you could live across the street on section 8 for less! Maybe an SRO? The choice is yours! Unbeliveable how high the price of homes have gotton in these low income areas. Disgusting.
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Ms. Flores recently listed a one-family house on Harrison Avenue, with two bedrooms, a finished basement and a newly renovated kitchen, for $449,000, and a two-family house on Bassford Avenue with nine bedrooms and new kitchens for $565,000.
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I hope they are kidding, living around the block from a group of housing projects is not worth $449,000. And Bassford Ave, that area is desolite as hell. Metro North runs nearby.
In other words, besides shopping there is nothing to do. Brotanical Gardens, oh please. Once every 5-10 years is enough.
42nd Street in a half hour. Uh huh...
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The Schools
save the children
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Roosevelt, Taft, Walton, haha. More like prisons. The schools in that area are extra strained thanks to Spanish speaking stupids with no desire to learn english.
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Because the schools are only a few years old — they replaced the former Theodore Roosevelt High School — recent SAT scores were not available.
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Sure... like the Times would like to release that info. That's like selling a car with broken headlamps.
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Going Forward
Local residents and officials hope the neighborhood’s residential real estate market will catch up to its commercial side, but it is not there yet. Community board leaders are pressing the city to devote more resources toward recreation for young people, and residents are frustrated that the Education Department has dismissed plans to build a new high school in the Kingsbridge Armory.
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