Outer Boroughs Have completely changed in last 10 years

[Dedalus]

Originally Posted by Manhattan-ite

I don't agree with you, Dedalus.

Yes, Starbuck-ers are bad, stupid and annoying. Charging their 5-dollar milk concoctions in their daddy's credit card.

But they won't steal my money and threaten me with a knife! So I'll take the Shallow Coffee Crowd any day over a mugger. No doubt.

I apologize if I seem to make light of crime that personally threatens you.

At the same time, such people don't seem to notice me. I keep a very low profile, I don't dress or present myself such that I look like a fruitful target for them. So...

As I've said elsewhere, I don't take pleasure in peoples misfortunes, but a certain level of crime keeps gentrification, and yuppies, away.

[Buildings' R Us]

I thought i'd bump this 11 year old thread because it's interesting reading the FIRST gentrification related post on City Data. It proves my point that you're not special just because you've "seen changes throughout your lifetime". This is true for any city and any time era in history. Life as a whole, especially New York is constatntly changing.

I don't understand the entitlement some long time residents feel like they're cool bragging about how much "cooler and grittier" their block used to be.

If City Data/ the internet existed back in the 1950s, then you'd have forums of elderly New Yorkers complaining of the changes from their childhood generation of the 1920s and so on.

[OyCrumbler]

This was an interesting bump. It's also interesting in that it was done in the year or two before the housing price collapse came to a head (2006 was when it hit peak prices, I believe). Now that prices have been skyrocketing for a while again, I wonder what happens next.

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by yodel

The Bronx is the only hope for many middle class families who want to stay in New York. It was the only place we could afford when we were looking to buy a house. We love where we live, but many people would never consider it--saying you live in the Bronx impresses no one.

Read this over - she posted this 10 years ago!

[Chava61]

Not all neighborhoods in the Outer Boroughs have changed in the last 20 years. Some seem pretty much the same externally although housing prices continue to go up.