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I'll take yuppies and hipsters wielding their Starbucks cups any day instead of the dealers and gangbangers, wielding bats and knives, who ruled my block in the Heights in the mid 80s.
Just my 2 cents. I think NYC has change for the better exponentially
The 50s were great economically, but so-so demographically. There was blatant racism back then and the city was extremely segregated. I like the fact that I can go into any neighborhood without the expectation of being chased out by a group of a people of opposite melanin.
The 50s were great economically, but so-so demographically. There was blatant racism back then and the city was extremely segregated. I like the fact that I can go into any neighborhood without the expectation of being chased out by a group of a people of opposite melanin.
Segregation is pretty natural, people tend to congregate around those they are similar to. A Muslim cab driver from Pakistan isn't gonna get on well with a Puerto Rican guy who drinks Millers on his stoop better then another Pakistani, and vice versa.
I wrote something similar to this in a thread about diversity in NYC. I noticed when I was traveling around NYC a couple months ago there seemed to be few neighborhoods, just white yuppies, and recent immigrants there for a pit stop. There was no real community, but a sterile enviorment you find in suburbia where people barely know their neighbors.
There is only community when your with your own click or kind, but I do agree in some areas there is no real sense of community because of stratified income class and sometimes race. This is why I say that nyc is no utopia, probably more closer in a real sense of a dystopia.
The old school NY still exists in the hispanic/asian/caribbean immigrant hoods. Same hustle and same flavor, just different cultures. Everyone wants the old school ethnic Italian/Jew/Irish/Black/PR NY back but it's gone. It's not all the yups fault either since the schools are in the toilet and most of those old groups want the good life in the suburbs.
Living in a city still struggling with a considerable crime and urban degregation problem (Philadelphia), NYers should be proud and thankful to have a city that so many people want to live in and look up to. Rather yuppies than gangbangers.
The old school NY still exists in the hispanic/asian/caribbean immigrant hoods. Same hustle and same flavor, just different cultures. Everyone wants the old school ethnic Italian/Jew/Irish/Black/PR NY back but it's gone. It's not all the yups fault either since the schools are in the toilet and most of those old groups want the good life in the suburbs.
Living in a city still struggling with a considerable crime and urban degregation problem (Philadelphia), NYers should be proud and thankful to have a city that so many people want to live in and look up to. Rather yuppies than gangbangers.
But the main problem for me id that even the ghetto is overpriced.
Its like $350,000+ to buy a house in south side Jamaica,queens
where in Philadelphia it would cost closer to $40,000 to live in a similar neighborhood.
But the main problem for me id that even the ghetto is overpriced.
Its like $350,000+ to buy a house in south side Jamaica,queens
where in Philadelphia it would cost closer to $40,000 to live in a similar neighborhood.
Maybe that's why Philadelphia has such a huge crime problem compared to NYC.It's so cheap that all the low life's can live there.
Let 'em live there and not here.
ok then how about new york in the 40s.
I heard it was good without all the crime.
wasnt around to see it though.
It was even better with all the racism and sexism.
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