Happy Thanksgiving! 10 people shot in the Bronx within eight hours

[Sha83]

Originally Posted by Cromulent

Is it OBJECTIVELY bad? No... compared to Ocean Hill-Brownsville, it is heaven on earth; these things are all relative. My best friend in elementary school lived on Minerva Place, but when PS 86, which once had the highest reading scores in the Bronx went bad (which it objectively did; it became a dangerous school), people generally moved north. AFAIK, Villa Ave is probably still a great place to park a car to hop the D train OR the 4 train, but I wouldn't want to put my children in PS 86 now.

Or do I have it wrong, somehow? Moved out to the 'guyland ages ago.

Shows just how out of touch you are. If anything, Villa Avenue is probably the highest crime street in Bedford Park. In fact, many of those buildings have been demolished or are in the process of being demolished. This just shows me that you probably haven't been in the neighborhood since the 70s or 80s.

[riaelise]

Originally Posted by yodel

I think the hills are one of the great things about upper Manhattan and the northwest BX. I can't think of many hills that bother me either. One of the worst is the hill up from the 1 train to City College. After a few times of that I learned to take the D train instead.

When I visited my ex-boyfriend, who lived near the reservoir, I had to climb steep stairs from the subway on Broadway.

Despite the hilliness, the west side of the BX is very pretty.