Does Hempstead have a bad rep, or is really bad when it comes to crime rates?

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by kmrlongisland

How can an SD go from a 42% grad rate in 2017 to over 80% in 2020?

Do you have information about/for the 42% grad rate? I'm only asking, because even 2 years later, it was 20% higher.

Some of it for 2020 is likely due to what has been going on too.

[nuts2uiam]

[quote=ckhthankgod;60926836]Do you have information about/for the 42% grad rate? I'm only asking, because even 2 years later, it was 20% higher.

Some of it for 2020 is likely due to what has been going on too.

This helps clear it up a bit. You may need to copy and paste the link.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/37percent/

[ckhthankgod]

^Thanks! I’ll have to check that out later.

This article may explain things as well: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.new...tes-1.50119306

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by gx89

The demographics of the area changed, there I said it.

So I guess who lived there previously did not own the land?

[long isle]

Originally Posted by gx89

The demographics of the area changed, there I said it.

That’s obvious but, that other post only made mention of department stores and no mention of people.

Do you have information on why the demographic changed in Hempstead?

[peconic117]

Originally Posted by long isle

That’s obvious but, that other post only made mention of department stores and no mention of people.

Do you have information on why the demographic changed in Hempstead?

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/16/n...once-more.html

Here is an old NYT article on it. Basically after WW2 Hempstead hit hard times as malls were built and “new” suburbia popped up all over Nassau. Whites mostly moved to other new areas like Levittown as businesses fled.

[long isle]

Originally Posted by peconic117

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/16/n...once-more.html

Here is an old NYT article on it. Basically after WW2 Hempstead hit hard times as malls were built and “new” suburbia popped up all over Nassau. Whites mostly moved to other new areas like Levittown as businesses fled.

Very interesting. Thanks!

[nuts2uiam]

Originally Posted by peconic117

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/16/n...once-more.html

Here is an old NYT article on it. Basically after WW2 Hempstead hit hard times as malls were built and “new” suburbia popped up all over Nassau. Whites mostly moved to other new areas like Levittown as businesses fled.

Exactly. Anchor stores leave neighborhoods, mom and pop stores can’t make ends meet, tax receipts drop, services decline, neighborhoods decline, home values decline, crime increases, before you know it, it becomes a less desirable place to live. And so the cycle goes.

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by peconic117

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/16/n...once-more.html

Here is an old NYT article on it. Basically after WW2 Hempstead hit hard times as malls were built and “new” suburbia popped up all over Nassau. Whites mostly moved to other new areas like Levittown as businesses fled.

So sold out by their own people, que sera sera

[kmrlongisland]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

Do you have information about/for the 42% grad rate? I'm only asking, because even 2 years later, it was 20% higher.

Some of it for 2020 is likely due to what has been going on too.

Change the year on your first or second link to 2017 and you will get the data for 2017/2018.