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One word describing Far Rockaway...GHETTO! What a waste of waterfront property. That place needs a good dose of gentrification to whip it into shape. What a shame.
It's been like that though, its actually within the last couple of years that they have been trying to gentrify it. It was even listed in the magazine time-out ny like 3 months in a row this year and only good things were said about it.
I walk on the beach down there sometimes. The old beach streets where the bungalows are have been rehabbed in some spots. Don't dump on Far Rock there are still a lot of hardworking honest people down there. Not every neighborhood needs to be gentrified. No matter how hard people front the 5 boroughs will always be majority working class. Why be a poser and pretend Far Rock is Chelsea. It is working class/working poor. So What?
The area of Rockaway being described is not Far Rockaway. Its the neighborhoods that encompass the middle/western half of the peninsula from Arverne to Breezy Point (though sometimes Arverne is lumped in with a broader description of Far Rockaway). The 100th PCT has always had a low crime rate so certainly if there's an increase, the percentage is going to be high. You can't only look at the percentage number.
And the article says its 140% in burglaries not crime in general. A partial reason for that particular spike happened because there was a burglary spree by a group a couple of months ago that targeted the wealthier neighborhoods. I believe they were caught.
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The area of Rockaway being described is not Far Rockaway. Its the neighborhoods that encompass the middle/western half of the peninsula from Arverne to Breezy Point (though sometimes Arverne is lumped in with a broader description of Far Rockaway). The 100th PCT has always had a low crime rate so certainly if there's an increase, the percentage is going to be high. You can't only look at the percentage number.
And the article says its 140% in burglaries not crime in general. A partial reason for that particular spike happened because there was a burglary spree by a group a couple of months ago that targeted the wealthier neighborhoods. I believe they were caught.
Exactly, it has nothing to do with violent crime. With a population of over 100,000, the 101 and 100 precincts still have pretty low numbers. Its just magnified because its happening in such a small space of land.
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No offense but even if an area like Belle Harbor and Breezy Point sees a "140%" spike in crime those areas would still be very safe. And I could care less if Breezy Points crime rate spikes up anyway, I hate that neighborhood and everyone living in it. It's not like Breezy Points crime spike would affect the rest of the city anyway.
No offense but even if an area like Belle Harbor and Breezy Point sees a "140%" spike in crime those areas would still be very safe. And I could care less if Breezy Points crime rate spikes up anyway, I hate that neighborhood and everyone living in it. It's not like Breezy Points crime spike would affect the rest of the city anyway.
I agree. That is an isolated area. Let the monkeys kill themselves.
No offense but even if an area like Belle Harbor and Breezy Point sees a "140%" spike in crime those areas would still be very safe. And I could care less if Breezy Points crime rate spikes up anyway, I hate that neighborhood and everyone living in it. It's not like Breezy Points crime spike would affect the rest of the city anyway.
Not sure what the backstory to that comment is but that seems rather excessive even if you did have a bad experience there or whatever.
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