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I saw this article and I found it interesting, but it is disingenuous to state that because murder rate is lower for 1 or 2 years vs Boston (proper), that the Bronx is "safer" than Boston. Yes there is a lower murder rate, but it is 1 category...there are several others which I think are just as important and where the Bronx underperforms vs Boston.
However, I contend that "gentrification" is NOT occuring in the Bronx, which by definition is a displacement of existing residents....it ain't happening. The newer residents are professionals, higher income than existing residents, and oftentimes from outside the borough, which is 1/2 of the definition of gentrification. BUT, they are moreso moving into new developments on vacant / underutilized properties (like converted retail or wharehouses), and not existing residential properties.
So what is really happening in places like the Southern Bronx? Newbies of all colors, sexual orientations, professions, and income ranges, are moving into the new working/middle class developments, and living among the lower class. There is no displacement of existing residents, however there is a general exodus of the "old guard" (PRs and Blacks) due to movement up the economic ladder and out to other areas of the country (Atlanta/PA/FL) and a movement into the community by new immigrants (Mexicans/Central Americans/Dominicans).
The net effect is that the existing housing stock (excluding the housing projects) is changing over to an immigrant community, while the working/middle class residents from the Bronx as well as across the city are moving into the new rental/co-op/condo developments, and amenities are quickly entering to serve the new populations.
This isn't gentrification, it is simply a revitalization. I am glad to see it and so are the residents of the Bronx, particularly Southern Bronx.
I know on my block there are more Dominicans and Mexicans than Puerto Ricans, most of the Ricans moved out.
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