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I lived in Ithaca for 5 years. We still have friends there. My family is from NYC. I am also African-American.
Ithaca is very safe, though from what I understand there are starting to be some rumblings there due to a bit of drug dealing going on. I suspect it is a temporary blip since the town isn't big enough to have more than a few dealers at a time. Once the police close in on these people things will go back to normal IMO. Anyway, the only "crime victims' in Ithaca are college students who 1. leave their apartment doors/windows unlocked or 2. walk around drunk at 3am.
The schools are good. The high school has had some racial issues though. There is an alternative high school but it is not everyone's cup of tea. I would tread carefully on that front, since there is no other options when it comes to the high school situation.
There is a black community there. It is small and close knit. The town itself is diverse for a college town centered around an Ivy Leauge school. If you want to know all kinds of people from multiple backgrounds you will absolutely accomplish that in Ithaca. It is a very liberal town. The mayor was from the Green Party at one point. It's like a much colder Berkeley.
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MIND YOU THAT I AM NOT TRYING TO SCARE ANYBODY OR "HYPE UP MY CITY TO SEEM GHETTO" I JUST SEE ITHACA FROM A DIFFERANT ANGLE AND FEEL PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW
Im 16 born an raised in I-town, Im Mixed Race. Yea Ithaca is very safe but that really depends on what life you about. And the drug problem is not going away, In a group of 5 people in Ithaca 2 of them will have weed on them and 1 will be a dealer, weed doesnt cause alot of problems tho lmao ''happy, hungry, sleepy''-Katt Williams. But like any other drug weed cost money and money is the root of all evil so problems do pop up. But harder drugs are being pushed gradually I was walking near State and Plain (the hood) a coupple days ago and 4 guys walk out a house and a women yells out the door ''Thats right *****s get goin, you aint sellin no crack out this house today mutha****as''. The fact that many people heard this and thought nothing of it shows that ithaca is on a downward spiral. There is a kid at IHS who used to regulary go to the bathroom during class to snort coke and came bacc bugged out .
For about a week there was gunshots all around southside a drive bye and then a suicide by cop. Ithaca has its moments and Southside is where they happen. At the High School me an my boys be askin some of are white friends if they would walk round southside at night and the always say ''hell no i dont wanna get shot'' wich is laughable in Ithaca but sooner or later may be a real problem. And racism is an ongoing problem everywhere in Ithaca. I dont know how old ya daughter is but i dont recomend IHS as a student right now. Its ass and im actually prolly gonna get into a fight with this white boy who thinks he can say the n-word when i get back from break. I was told he carries a knife tho. This is an ongoing problem and its only going to get worse Cops are outside are school everyday waiting for something to happen.
Cayuga Heights is a very nice area tho errythang to the east is nice the more east you get the better. But The Heights has very few black folk just a couple Africans. The black areas in Ithaca are Southside (iffy on the downward), Northside (pretty nice area), and West Village (terrible). In terms of hair You got Hannunahs on State st. for a salon idk if its that great tho i just go there to get my hair braided sometimes, and for Haircuts with alot of Black Customers is Big Time Barber Shop on The Commons and theres a new barber shop thats good i guess on Northside. If You would like to be in a black community but safe i recommend Northside i hang there all the time nice to play ball there at Conway. But if you live in Cayuga Heights your not going to be in the black community at all, I live on South Hill wich has some black people but im not as enthralled in the community as many on the flats are and i never will be. If your black and outside of the community it can be hard sometimes cause like anyplace you need to know certain people.
But yea..... Thats My Two Cents. BTW Please do not come at me tellin me im wrong cuz i always keep it on a 100. lmao
sorry if errythang i juss wrote is irrelevent to ya im just bored a'f lmao its I-town.
MIND YOU THAT I AM NOT TRYING TO SCARE ANYBODY OR "HYPE UP MY CITY TO SEEM GHETTO" I JUST SEE ITHACA FROM A DIFFERANT ANGLE AND FEEL PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW
Im 16 born an raised in I-town, Im Mixed Race. Yea Ithaca is very safe but that really depends on what life you about. And the drug problem is not going away, In a group of 5 people in Ithaca 2 of them will have weed on them and 1 will be a dealer, weed doesnt cause alot of problems tho lmao ''happy, hungry, sleepy''-Katt Williams. But like any other drug weed cost money and money is the root of all evil so problems do pop up. But harder drugs are being pushed gradually I was walking near State and Plain (the hood) a coupple days ago and 4 guys walk out a house and a women yells out the door ''Thats right *****s get goin, you aint sellin no crack out this house today mutha****as''. The fact that many people heard this and thought nothing of it shows that ithaca is on a downward spiral. There is a kid at IHS who used to regulary go to the bathroom during class to snort coke and came bacc bugged out .
For about a week there was gunshots all around southside a drive bye and then a suicide by cop. Ithaca has its moments and Southside is where they happen. At the High School me an my boys be askin some of are white friends if they would walk round southside at night and the always say ''hell no i dont wanna get shot'' wich is laughable in Ithaca but sooner or later may be a real problem. And racism is an ongoing problem everywhere in Ithaca. I dont know how old ya daughter is but i dont recomend IHS as a student right now. Its ass and im actually prolly gonna get into a fight with this white boy who thinks he can say the n-word when i get back from break. I was told he carries a knife tho. This is an ongoing problem and its only going to get worse Cops are outside are school everyday waiting for something to happen.
Cayuga Heights is a very nice area tho errythang to the east is nice the more east you get the better. But The Heights has very few black folk just a couple Africans. The black areas in Ithaca are Southside (iffy on the downward), Northside (pretty nice area), and West Village (terrible). In terms of hair You got Hannunahs on State st. for a salon idk if its that great tho i just go there to get my hair braided sometimes, and for Haircuts with alot of Black Customers is Big Time Barber Shop on The Commons and theres a new barber shop thats good i guess on Northside. If You would like to be in a black community but safe i recommend Northside i hang there all the time nice to play ball there at Conway. But if you live in Cayuga Heights your not going to be in the black community at all, I live on South Hill wich has some black people but im not as enthralled in the community as many on the flats are and i never will be. If your black and outside of the community it can be hard sometimes cause like anyplace you need to know certain people.
But yea..... Thats My Two Cents. BTW Please do not come at me tellin me im wrong cuz i always keep it on a 100. lmao
sorry if errythang i juss wrote is irrelevent to ya im just bored a'f lmao its I-town.
Sorry, but Ithaca is not that serious. You probably just all of the serious incidents that occur in Ithaca in this one post. I don't think anyone says that any place is "Mayberry", but this deserves a "C'mon man!"
Its Not Seriouse At All Everybody Is Too High To Care About Anything But Things Are Getting Worse... And Naw Im Juss Talking About Things That Happened Last Year... I Told You At The Top Ithaca Aint Ghetto. If You Walked Down Southside Or Anywhere Else At Night You'd Be Fine But Mad Heads Is Moving In From Brooklyn and Rochester Those Is Da Problem Starting People. Ithaca *****s Juss Wanna Stay High... And It Dont Deserve A C'mon Man. Im Not Asking You To Agree Wit Me But **** Aint All Rainbows And Waterfalls Over Here LMAO.
People have been moving to Ithaca and other Upstate cities from Brooklyn and other major Northeastern cities for years. So, that isn't anything new.
There has and will be crime in a city of any size, like that needs to be said. It isn't like the crime is wide spread or usually random though. I doubt that the OP would hang out in the same circle of people as well.
Ithaca has some drug issues. Little if any violent crime, though. If the OP and her family don't get involved in those drug circles, it shouldn't matter.
Though if the OP does, it's easy to find your friendly local heroin dealer...
Yea thats true, thats why i said ''ithaca is very safe but that depends on what life you about''. and random crimes do happen occasionally like i remember like a couple months ago a pickup truck full of white guys stopped and beat up a asian guy in collegetown for no reason other than the fact that he was asian... like i said racism is a very big problem here that usually gets swept under the rug...
and robberys are on the rise too sumbody robbed burger king a cupple weeks ago wich is honestly the worst idea ive eva heard of lmaoo it was an inside job too smh lmao.
Yeah, there have been some incidents, now and then in the past. I remember a similar incident about 10 years ago and I have heard that there were skinheads in the areas years ago. There was also the Harris/Kinge incident about 20 years ago. Besides that, it is generally a laid back area.
Not 100% sure, but G-Dub Hillside's posts sound very reminiscent of posts from I-Townz Best back in 2010. Roughly the same age group, though the writing has improved some. If it is the same person I'm glad to see the communication skills on an upward trend.
All that said, my brother lives near the State St - Plain Street intersection, and it's true that it can be a bit rough there. But most of the problems are limited to a small percentage of the population. The crime rate is still very low for a city Ithaca's size (check the stats in the Data section of this site). I haven't been in Ithaca High since the 60s, so I can't speak with much authority on everything which occurs there. But again , this site's rating for the school is 73 on a scale of 0 to 100. Not bad.
Overall I think for a city of its size Ithaca offers a lot pluses, and very few minuses. If you decide to move there I hope it works well for you.
Ithaca has some drug issues. Little if any violent crime, though. If the OP and her family don't get involved in those drug circles, it shouldn't matter.
Though if the OP does, it's easy to find your friendly local heroin dealer...
I agree. There will always be some drug dealing just because of the presence of 2 colleges. But the town itself is not big enough to sustain multiple gangs and turf wars or anything like that. So it has never been that bad.
For perspective the 5 years I lived there there were exactly 2 murders. Once was a murder/suicide between a husband and wife, and one was a young man who was dealing drugs out of an outfit in Syracuse (he had tried to screw them out of money so they came down and shot him). That was it in all of 5 years, and there were no random shooting victims involved.
Also, at one point I live in southside right across the street from what was called a projects. Those people had lawn furniture and parking spaces. They left their grills out all summer and no one ever stole them. I never heard a gunshot or a late night fight. I rarely locked my doors and was never robbed. It wasn't even close to "bad". I moved in 2005.
That said, it is a place where many people don't lock doors and are not taking any kind of precautions. My Brooklyn born self kept thinking the whole time I was there that Ithaca was ripe for a takeover by criminal elements if they ever got wind that the opportunity existed. The police force is small and not really ready to handle anything too major. If some organized outfit wanted to come in and make trouble, they really could.
And G-Dub is right about that high school IMO. It has always had some real race issues. So many of the students come from these rural areas outside of Ithaca itself and have never seen people of color, and when they finally do its not pretty. Plus they track students and are notorious for steering even the good black students out of the college track. People would always tell us that you have to go up to the school and fight to get your kid in the right classes. But for some reason the problem is invisible outside the black community. I think it is because the high school has a good reputation and is a source of pride for many, and folks just don't want to admit that perfect ultra-liberal crunchy Ithaca might have some race problems.
I agree. There will always be some drug dealing just because of the presence of 2 colleges. But the town itself is not big enough to sustain multiple gangs and turf wars or anything like that. So it has never been that bad.
For perspective the 5 years I lived there there were exactly 2 murders. Once was a murder/suicide between a husband and wife, and one was a young man who was dealing drugs out of an outfit in Syracuse (he had tried to screw them out of money so they came down and shot him). That was it in all of 5 years, and there were no random shooting victims involved.
Also, at one point I live in southside right across the street from what was called a projects. Those people had lawn furniture and parking spaces. They left their grills out all summer and no one ever stole them. I never heard a gunshot or a late night fight. I rarely locked my doors and was never robbed. It wasn't even close to "bad". I moved in 2005.
That said, it is a place where many people don't lock doors and are not taking any kind of precautions. My Brooklyn born self kept thinking the whole time I was there that Ithaca was ripe for a takeover by criminal elements if they ever got wind that the opportunity existed. The police force is small and not really ready to handle anything too major. If some organized outfit wanted to come in and make trouble, they really could.
And G-Dub is right about that high school IMO. It has always had some real race issues. So many of the students come from these rural areas outside of Ithaca itself and have never seen people of color, and when they finally do its not pretty. Plus they track students and are notorious for steering even the good black students out of the college track. People would always tell us that you have to go up to the school and fight to get your kid in the right classes. But for some reason the problem is invisible outside the black community. I think it is because the high school has a good reputation and is a source of pride for many, and folks just don't want to admit that perfect ultra-liberal crunchy Ithaca might have some race problems.
Actually the colleges arent even the drug hubs, mostly the people that deal drugs in the colleges are people actually from Ithaca who decide to go to college there, because most college students really dont go into the city they have everything they need on campus or they go to collegetown.. all the dealers are usually IHS alumni who sell to mostly ithaca people not college pople. And gangs are not a problem but they are in da area as in any city. the southside has a multiple Bloods sets like Blood Hound Gang B.H.G, and Black P Srones but they really dont do anything... Den We Gots OHC Rollin 30's Locs at West Village but there actually from syracuse i rolls with them they all my *****s im not officially in it but they respect me. den we got a White gang called the Cliff Street Boys smh dey start **** all the time. and then there not really a gang but theres a couple Dominican Familys who seem to be errywhere and if you mess with one of them its not pretty there was a fight at IHS wit one of them den 10 minutes later 3 cars full of dominicans get out walking around fall creek wit crowbars and chains looking for the kid that was fighting with one of them. idk know of anymore sets like that buh yea none of them do anything dangerous. except for the domincans.. DOMINCANS DONT PLAY.. LMAO
and yea dere was a murder this year a latino ***** from the bronx got murked at chestnut hill. and dere was a murder a year ago at maple hill also a latino ***** from the bronx.
and hell yea im right about the high school they hype up that we got a black superintendent but we have noo black teachers and they all racial profile. if your black or latino you'll get asked for a pass if yu in the halls and then security tries and starts something. if your white nobody asks for a pass and we proved this. we got a white friend to walk down an nobody noticed him den me an two other AA walk doen an get turned bacc. then my friend was messin wit this kid in class once and the kid starts cussing my boi out in the middle of class mad loud and the teacher juss tells him to calm down and my cuz is like ''hold up if i woulda just stood up in the middle of class and yell **** You, i woulda been sent to my A.P'' and of course dats what happened they called security and had him escorted out.. there are multiple more examples...
and you hit it rite on the head with that one all the hicks from enfield, danby, and brooktondale spend there school lives going to all white elementarys den they go to boynton middle school where there are black kids but not as many as Dewitt Middle School and then we all thrown into the high school together. me and 5 kids jumped a hick last year for sayin the n word right to are faces. and they continue to test us. smh.
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Not 100% sure, but G-Dub Hillside's posts sound very reminiscent of posts from I-Townz Best back in 2010. Roughly the same age group, though the writing has improved some. If it is the same person I'm glad to see the communication skills on an upward trend.
All that said, my brother lives near the State St - Plain Street intersection, and it's true that it can be a bit rough there. But most of the problems are limited to a small percentage of the population. The crime rate is still very low for a city Ithaca's size (check the stats in the Data section of this site). I haven't been in Ithaca High since the 60s, so I can't speak with much authority on everything which occurs there. But again , this site's rating for the school is 73 on a scale of 0 to 100. Not bad.
Overall I think for a city of its size Ithaca offers a lot pluses, and very few minuses. If you decide to move there I hope it works well for you.
Haha yea you got me and yea im better at spelling and ive matured since my days of ridiculous arguements of things i knew werent true LMAO. buh yea Ithaca is a good place to live da Goods overcome the Bads.
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