top 5 most current dangerous neighborhoods in the bronx (New York, Eden: apartment, house)
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Poverty and crime has moved NORTHWARD in the BRONX as welfare recipients these days can't get apartments in the South Bronx. I'm going to say the bad areas are Edenwald, Wakefield, Williambridge. Basically anything North of the Bronx Zoo is going further and further downhill as it is one of the few areas where people on government programs can easily get housing. They have built new low income housing too along White Plains Road at certain points and of course these buildings serve populations in and out of prison. The 2 and 5 serve these neighborhoods, now among the worst in the city.
Those neighborhoods also have beautiful homes and have seen a great deal of investment in new private homes. I wold on Gun Hill Rd so I am familiar with the area. I commute my bike when the weather permits. I drive my daughter at her request to the Pelham Parkway 5 station. I think your arguments are overstated. Its not beverly hills. But I have seen worse areas. Also the rents there are not cheap. Its a large area up there. Its heavily black, West Indian, and Hispanic. It has bad areas. But Its not as bad as you perceive.
I will say the City has built homeless emergency shelters in the Bronx and in the areas you described. Local groups have protested. Yet, the City wont put violent mentally ill populations fairly throughout the City. Areas in the Bronx and Brooklyn get more the there fair share. Not in my neighborhood often means send it to the Bronx. Read this in next post.
I lived off Pelham Parkway and WPR and it was a nice, safe neighborhood. Looks like it has still held up over the years. There are many areas of the Bronx that have remained nice/decent.
There are however areas that were BAD ten years ago and remain BAD. East Tremont all the way until gets to Throggs Neck, Castle Hill projects area, basically the entire route of the Bx27, Fordham Rd., Edenwald PJs area, to name a few off the top of my head..
It is true that the North Bronx has gotten worse then it was 30-40 years ago. White Flight ( although it shouldn't be a factor but it is ) and section 8 vouchers are factors. Especially since the population of the South Bronx had to move somewhere due to the loss of apartment stock, after the fires in the 70's. So now the South Bronx has gotten a little better, and the North a little worse. But on average the borough is doing better. But not everyone on section 8 is bad. I grew up in the projects and we were good people. So did my wife and her family. But I tell you what, the Bronx is prettier and no where as bad as places I have seen in Jersey or in Brooklyn.
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