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Stop drinking the Brownsville kool aid. Brownsville didn't even record it's first homice this year until June ! It had 0 homicides for the first half of the year, and it's supposed to be the worst? Please give me a break.
Year in and year out, Lower Central Harlem and Upper East Harlem have crapped ALL over East NY and Brownsville (last couple of years Bville has gotten really soft) in per capita crime stats. Yes, you are much more likely to be a victim of crime in Harlem than in North-East Brooklyn.
Only Eastern Bed-stuy churns out insanely high per capita crime stats on the level of Harlem and the South Bronx. That is the worst hood in Brooklyn by far.
My respects to what Brownsville was a couple of years ago. It was legitimately top 3. Not any more, and hasn't been what it used to be (which is a good thing).
Yes. Lower Central Harlem from 105-115 is row after row of projects. West Harlem has gotten a lot better in part because of the major Columbia University expansion. Lower East Harlem is gentrifying, but go up to East 116th street and it is horrible (total crackhead looking people). I would tell people going to East Harlem unless you have to for some important reason you might not want to go North of East 116th Street.
But still developers are buying out Upper East Harlem. They will eventually displace that bad element out of the neighborhood.
As for Eastern Bedstuy, it has more SRO's and social service housing. Western Bedstuy gentrified first.
That would be more plausible in somewhere like Bushwick or Bedstuy, there are no visible signs of gentrification in The Bronx yet.
Is your experience in The Bronx limited to 5 blocks in Mott Haven?
Not true. There are definitely signs of early gentrification in the Bronx. I live in the Bronx.
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