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Spanish Harlem is the other side on the east side but it's slowly not remaining Spanish Harlem if you know what I mean lol.
This is not at all true. Gentrification or whites moving in is mainly restricted to the area from 96th Street-105th stret. This is only on certain streets, and it must be pointed out that Spanish Harlem has the second highest concentration of NYCHA facilities/housing projects behind Brownsville. Even the areas with whites moving in have them mainly concentrated in a few newer buildings. The area looks nicer mainly because of new stores like CVS, WalGreens, new restaurants, etc, but the expansion of major chains happens in every neighborhood and every town in the COUNTRY.
Thanks everybody. The reason she'd be committing to it sight unseen for the area (she saw a skype tour of the inside) is because she'd be rooming with another person who will be signing the lease. The other option she's looking at is going through airbnb for two weeks to get a better sense of the lay of the land, but I think she's nervous about then having to burn through cash with the uncertainty of trying to find a place with a deadline.
Not to say, making the commitment sight unseen doesn't have its own issues as well.
This is not at all true. Gentrification or whites moving in is mainly restricted to the area from 96th Street-105th stret. This is only on certain streets, and it must be pointed out that Spanish Harlem has the second highest concentration of NYCHA facilities/housing projects behind Brownsville. Even the areas with whites moving in have them mainly concentrated in a few newer buildings. The area looks nicer mainly because of new stores like CVS, WalGreens, new restaurants, etc, but the expansion of major chains happens in every neighborhood and every town in the COUNTRY.
The latest shooting was last Wednesday at exactly this spot, 10 PM.
Apparently a couple approached another couple or a guy and shot (and hit) someone "multiple times."
If she lives in San Francisco then she will be fine as that area probably safer than San Francisco in general. According to the crime index, San Francisco is more dangerous than Harlem.
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SF has a pretty high crime rate, multiple times that of Manhattan.
No, it's not wrong.
There are quite a few social service-type buildings as well.
The area is trying to improve ..
Apartments on Manhattan Avenue below 110th are vastly overpriced, cannot figure that out.
There is one good block but of townhouses.
No, it's not wrong.
There are quite a few social service-type buildings as well.
The area is trying to improve ..
Apartments on Manhattan Avenue below 110th are vastly overpriced, cannot figure that out.
There is one good block but of townhouses.
That area used to be very bad. One of the most drug ridden back in the early 90's. This was due in large part to one of the larger drug gangs, Young Talented Children, who operated out of the Frederick Douglass Houses.
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After months of gang warfare for control of half a dozen blocks on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, 48 suspected drug dealers and gunmen were indicted yesterday in 8 murders and 13 shootings in a bloody struggle over a neighborhood business that earned $5 million a year.
Touting crack cocaine and heroin and packing semiautomatic pistols, the drug gangs terrorized residents in a neighborhood of well-kept brownstones and reconditioned tenements. Their domain, the Manhattan District Attorney said yesterday, stretched along 107th Street from Amsterdam Avenue to Central Park, along Amsterdam Avenue between 104th and 105th Streets, and included the corner of 109th Street and Columbus Avenue.
That area used to be very bad. One of the most drug ridden back in the early 90's. This was due in large part to one of the larger drug gangs, Young Talented Children, who operated out of the Frederick Douglass Houses.
Not exactly there. The Whole Foods is on the other side of the co-ops.
And always a weird feeling in the area, something mapped onto something else - which is still very much around. I know many people who live on Manhattan, block with the town houses, and also on CPW.
Funny that someone was just telling me about that gang the other day.
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