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For me, it's Newark, NJ. You know the neighborhood is bad when the houses you see have iron bars on the windows and doors. This was years ago though, so I think Cory Booker did clean the place up before he left.
For me, it was when I lived in Brooklyn- specifically the neighborhood Crown Heights. Even more specifically, the corner of Bergen St. and Kingston ave. I saw one of my neighbors get shot. He was shot in the leg (not chest region) and survived, but it was still scary. I actually lived in a really nice Brownstone property with 2 of my friends... it just happened to be located in front of a project building where some interesting folks lived.
After that incident, if I was going home late I would either take a cab home (out of pocket), or stayed at my job past 9:30p so I would be reimbursed for a company car lol. It was THAT bad. As soon as my year lease was up- I moved and never looked back.
Cheap housing though- $500 a month! I guess you get what you pay for.
It was pretty frightful. Seeing a homeless guy throw a molotov cocktail at someone who was sleeping. Lucky I was close by when that happened, kinda wondered what could have been if me and my gf wasn't near by.
That doesn't make the place "scary". Unsafe? Not a city in America that might feel like that in places. I grew up in RI and spent every summer in Brooklyn. Is your friend really from NYC? Comparing unsafe or scary between the two is like comparing the moon to Jupiter.
I didn't say she thought it was scary. She just didn't like it, she mostly felt it was unsafe in some areas at least. Yes, she's from NYC.
I don't know...I was always under the impression that the northeast side was the bad side...ward 5 or something? Plus that's where a lot of poverty and crime/drugs take place because from my understanding a lot of people from new Orleans came after Katrina to this area. Never heard anything about the southwest part but while there will always be pockets in large cities of bad areas it just seems at the same time that its typically concentrated at the same time.
5th Ward is one of the bad areas of the city, along with the part of town that you were in, and some other neighborhoods that are spreaded throughout the city. Due to a lack of zoning laws in Houston, the good parts and bad parts of town aren't situated in one part of the city, and are located in different parts of the city.
Cabrini Green and Henry Horner neighborhoods in Chicago -- both former public housing projects. Cabrini Green is where I spent much more time in trying to rehabilitate the units and the common areas of the buildings throughout the mid/late 1990's with my church, whereas Henry Horner we really just flew in and out of fairly quickly, as it was considered "too dangerous" at the time for us to stay much longer (and I believe it!). I never stepped foot in Stateway Gardens or other South Side projects but I've heard they were even worse!
It was my experiences in these areas that gave me a tiny taste of what life in American slums can be like, and I don't think any words I can put here can best describe the unbelievably hellish conditions these people live through day in and day out!
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Crown Heights
