crime in cities in upstate new york

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by STRAP

You dont live in Syracuse than Buddy! Ya location says ceciro a white city an much smaller than syracuse. I agree that Vegas is worst than syracuse. Of course where ever its a money flow like that in a city expect high crime. Please though walk Fayette BLVD. From columbus to bruce street. Then walk South Salina from Valentine to Kennedy. Then Walk South ave anywhere on it. Then walk Midland . There are plenty of streets that you will not be willing to walk on at 3 in the morning. The west side. oswego, Geddes I mean you can not be serious. I lived on the East side of syracuse 4 a few years. An there where murders in many middle class communties so what are you talking about Guy. You said you have never heard gun shots fired out of anger in Syracuse lets me know one thing. You are not from syracuse. You hear Gunshots Everyday! I Know I have been here like 15 years plus Every side of Town an just about Every hood. An Maybe during the winter months its not as Bad, but summertime you know its on an poppin

Actually, many of the srteets you mentioned have good and rough parts. Some are just common sense, as they are streets with public housing, but other vary in terms of how bad or rough they are. BALLANTYNE to Brighton, while pretty rough, still isn't as bad as say Brighton to Burt off of South Salina Street. Same with South Ave. from say Glenwood to about West Colvin. While rougher, it isn't as bad as South Ave. from West Colvin up to West Onondaga. South Ave. up the hill past Glenwood is quiet and nice. Same with South Salina south of Ballantyne and especially south of Seneca Turnpike.

Geddes Street is actually really nice south of Bellevue and gets really nice south of Stolp Ave. Even north of West Genesee Street on Geddes while rough looking, isn't that bad either.

Midland gets better the further south you go and is still nice south of Ballantyne. Even homes north of Ballantyne on some of the side streets off of Midland are still fine too.

Also, shots fired can be misleading, as someone can call it in, but it could be fireworks or a car backfiring. So, gunfire might actually be one of those things instead.

[585WNY]

Rochester's homicide rate was actually cut almost in half from 2008 to 2009.

[q99vipp]

Downstate population has been pushing up the Hudson Valley to the Capital District for many years. This brings the good and the bad. On the plus side its one reason we aren't losing population like some parts of Upstate. It's also bringing the bad element into the urban areas up here....

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by q99vipp

Downstate population has been pushing up the Hudson Valley to the Capital District for many years. This brings the good and the bad. On the plus side its one reason we aren't losing population like some parts of Upstate. It's also bringing the bad element into the urban areas up here....

This has been happening in Upstate NY to some degree for a while now. Some of it is related to the expansion of the prison population and some actually move for the slower pace of life. So, this really isn't anything new to Upstate NY. Even cities like Auburn, Rome, Elmira, Watertown, Plattsburgh, Oneonta and Ithaca, along with some others, have been getting folks from Downstate NY and even from the South for decades.