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Funny walking around Nereid Ave (east of Barnes ave) looks no different from walking around parts of Morris Park. Amazing what dark faces make people see.
Most of the people keep up their homes. Not just the Italians.
Get over your problems.
As to the stabbings around Mt St Michael. Do you know for a fact that it involved people who live around there? Crime can happen any time and any where and the perps quite likely were opportunists, who dont ,live around there, looking for a criminal opportunity. Just as they did/do at Morris Park Stan on the #5. Indeed the murder on Pitman and Murdock last September was committed by some one from Bronxwood, miles away.
Yes, the Italians in general are very good about keeping their homes and neighborhoods clean and orderly. I am half Italian, other half Irish. It's funny, but a few years before I was born it was considered a mixed marriage! Crazy. Oh well, its a shame that so much of the Bronx was ruined by liberals. Notice there are not in the Bronx now, they ran to Long Island or Westchester to escape the impact of their social experiments....
And you my friend, have a joyous St. Pats Day!
Long Island? Liberals?
Take a walk over to the LI forum and read some of their posts.
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Funny walking around Nereid Ave (east of Barnes ave) looks no different from walking around parts of Morris Park. Amazing what dark faces make people see.
Most of the people keep up their homes. Not just the Italians.
Get over your problems.
As to the stabbings around Mt St Michael. Do you know for a fact that it involved people who live around there? Crime can happen any time and any where and the perps quite likely were opportunists, who dont ,live around there, looking for a criminal opportunity. Just as they did/do at Morris Park Stan on the #5. Indeed the murder on Pitman and Murdock last September was committed by some one from Bronxwood, miles away.
My family members that are now senior citizens, always refer to those residents of the Bronx areas mentions so far in these post, of the pre-1970's as the Bronx Bumrushers.
The Bronx was Whiter and more Jewish with the Jewish sections having the least amount of crime. But most of the people in the Bronx were always poor immigrants.
The entire city was cleaner and well kept in all neighborhhoods regardless of race before 1965.
You have to study US economics to really understand the housing market and gov't subsidies that were given to banks that kept housing cost down, and what the end of those subsidies did to the housing market, and how neighborhoods declined.
Many people were able to buy homes in NYC in low income neighborhoods, and later move to newer neighborhoods, and rent out their old houses or sell them. The same thing for buildings. Without the subsidies real estate prices rose, and many owners were unable to keep up the properties in their old neighborhoods.
If given a choice naturally a person will keep up the home they live in, before keeping up the one they rent out.
Read Dionne DiMucci's "The Wanderer Talks Truth". He was a 1950's -early 60's Doo Wop, and Rock n Roll celebrity from the Belmont area of the Bronx. He tells the truth about gangs, drugs, and crime in the White areas of the Bronx during that time and prior. He was born in 1938.
If given a choice naturally a person will keep up the home they live in, before keeping up the one they rent out.
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Yet most of the homes in Wakefield north of East 233rd, are owner occupid and as good as homes in working class/lower middle class white neighborhoods in the Bronx. Clearly they will also be careful about who they rent to, given that they occupy the same building.
Maybe you refer to Williamsbridge which has a whole different population.
Yet most of the homes in Wakefield north of East 233rd, are owner occupid and as good as homes in working class/lower middle class white neighborhoods in the Bronx. Clearly they will also be careful about who they rent to, given that they occupy the same building.
Maybe you refer to Williamsbridge which has a whole different population.
Remember I never stated anything negative about the homes in Wakefield or the White areas.
Posters are making untrue statements in general about areas in the Bronx that went from being White areas to Black and Latin areas.
The false statements are: The areas were kept up better before the 1970's. The homes in Wakefield look pretty much the same as when I was a child.
There was no crime or there is more crime now.
City statistics show crime is the lowest it has ever been in the history of the city.
Look at 1940's, 1950's, and early 1960's film footage of Rikers Island, you can count the number of Black youth in there on practically one hand. Mostly all are White. Rikers Island was a Juvenile Detention center at one time.
City statistics show crime is the lowest it has ever been in the history of the city.
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What will be interesting is for certain folks to talk about the time when Irish thugs terrorized whole parts of the City. After all West Side Story wasnt that long ago. Indeed many who lived in that world are still alive.
I have worked in Wakefield since 1990. Except for 241 st and WP Rd and the SE corner of Nereid and WP Rd it's got to be the mellowest, most uneventful place to be. Good area to work in, plenty of street parking (except for the broken glass in virtually every spot)
BTW, re the SE corner of WP and Nereid, does anyone know how long the old Silver Chimes restaurant was there prior to 1990? A Greek guy named Tom owned it. It had since become a Gourmet Deli since about 2006
constant influx of guys and girls in and out of the deli, the corner just seems very very "active" with guys standing around, never moving but always eyeing passersby
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