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I can see where the party with the burning barrels and the rubble was in seriously poor taste, but can anyone tell me why we need to preserve the culture of crime, crappy low-rent storefronts with Made-in-China goods, bars on windows, heroin busts and dirty streets?
Are "Big-Butt Jeans," the 400,000th bodega and quinceanera dress shops so important that they must be saved? Is it anyone's right to live anywhere they want? I mean -- I don't want it to turn into Williamsburg, but isn't a little gentrification good for the Bronx? Or isn't it?
I work around Fordham and Jerome and see fights in the streets -- and that's the good part, above the 180s -- and someone was shot and killed in the park the other day -- the streets are dirty -- pit bull attacks, people getting shot in the face in a car -- why is it so important to preserve this? Isn't cleaning up an area what a good politician is supposed to do?
Diaz has no power whatsoever he is just a bronx mascot like all boro presidents THEY HAVE NO POWER. He is just looking for welfare bunny support for his next election for his do nothing job.
The Bronx has nasty corrupt democratic political machines such as Diaz family, Riviera, Velez, Espada, Jose Soriano, arroyo and others. These politicians for many years do nothing but a disservice to the community.
As for gentrification in the Bronx? The gentrification in the Bronx is no where near what we see in Brooklyn and hip areas of Manhattan. To be honest, the gentrification that we see in the Bronx is from mid to low end. The renters and buyers mainly by folks who can't afford or priced out of Manhattan and Brooklyn pads.
It's coming---I just bought a co op in the Bronx and my movements are a very reliable index of real estate trends over the past 2 decades. I've often said that real estate investors should have me tracked by a Private Eye, because everywhere I've lived in this city has exploded valuewise within a decade of my residence there.
Oh, it's definitely going down. It'll be decades before full gentrification though.
This. It will happen and the early stages of gentrification and urban renewal are already there. It will take decades before full gentrification. Upper Manhattan will likely have to completely gentrify first before you have full gentrification in the Bronx.
I can see where the party with the burning barrels and the rubble was in seriously poor taste, but can anyone tell me why we need to preserve the culture of crime, crappy low-rent storefronts with Made-in-China goods, bars on windows, heroin busts and dirty streets?
Are "Big-Butt Jeans," the 400,000th bodega and quinceanera dress shops so important that they must be saved? Is it anyone's right to live anywhere they want? I mean -- I don't want it to turn into Williamsburg, but isn't a little gentrification good for the Bronx? Or isn't it?
I work around Fordham and Jerome and see fights in the streets -- and that's the good part, above the 180s -- and someone was shot and killed in the park the other day -- the streets are dirty -- pit bull attacks, people getting shot in the face in a car -- why is it so important to preserve this? Isn't cleaning up an area what a good politician is supposed to do?
Anyone can live where they want which means locals are just as entitled and eligible to live there as super entitled closet racist newcomers...
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