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It seems like all last Winter and Spring there was a relentless drumbeat in the press(especially The NY Post) and by posters on here about the massive increase in the crime rate due to de Blasio's election,along with taunts about how out of control things would really get once Summer arrived.
Well,Summer is over and we are 3/4 of the way through the year now and it looks like just the opposite is happening.
The NYPD has just reported the lowest August crime rate in at least 20 years. So far the crime rate is down for the year and it looks like we might be on track for yet another record low crime rate this year.
What happened to the predicted descent into a 1970's style armageddon ?
I am honestly hoping for a small uptick - it seems all that will slow this gentrification wave down. When hipsters are moving across from the projects in Bed-Stuy, they are feeling a bit too safe. Not to 70's and 80's levels, but enough to make the apprehensive about moving in.
I am honestly hoping for a small uptick - it seems all that will slow this gentrification wave down. When hipsters are moving across from the projects in Bed-Stuy, they are feeling a bit too safe. Not to 70's and 80's levels, but enough to make the apprehensive about moving in.
Great thinking. Maybe that small uptick will include someone in your family as a victim. If so,I hope you will be able to chalk it up as the price that must be paid to make others feel a little less safe in your neighborhood when they read about it in the paper or see it on TV.
I am honestly hoping for a small uptick - it seems all that will slow this gentrification wave down. When hipsters are moving across from the projects in Bed-Stuy, they are feeling a bit too safe. Not to 70's and 80's levels, but enough to make the apprehensive about moving in.
You sound like the bitter folks pissed that Asians are moving into Bensonhurst.
You sound like the bitter folks pissed that Asians are moving into Bensonhurst.
I live in Bed-Stuy, not Bensonhurst. I am saying that a uptick in crime may be the only thing that will cool down "hot" neighborhoods like mine. When a 1 BR in Bed-Stuy cost more than an apartment in Yorkville, there is a serious problem that needs to be addressed.
Great thinking. Maybe that small uptick will include someone in your family as a victim. If so,I hope you will be able to chalk it up as the price that must be paid to make others feel a little less safe in your neighborhood when they read about it in the paper or see it on TV.
First off, all my family moved out of NYC so I, along with my cat are the members of my family to currently live in NYC. I am not talking about newspapers or TV, I am talking about rising rents pushing people out. Can't have one without the other.
all my family moved out of NYC ... I ... currently live in NYC. ... rising rents pushing people out. Can't have one without the other.
Perhaps it's time for you to go, as well. Must be some paradise, just waiting for you. Hotlanta?
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