Dangerous areas and ghettos (New York, Bedford: low crime, most dangerous, statistics)

[DoubleXAs]

Originally Posted by sevdie

Probably. I haven't been to the bronx in a very long time...like I said it was rough. I've never been back to Decatur ave.

Yeah..Decatur and all of Fordham-Bedford is rough. Was and still is. Place is oozing drugs.

[katiessmom]

Originally Posted by SuperMario

Manhattan: East Harlem, Central Harlem, West Harlem, Inwood, Washington Heights, LES projects

Basically the whole Uptown area of Manhattan is the ghetto. The projects in the LES aswell.

Brooklyn: Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, East NY, Flastbush, East Flatbush, Bushwick, Crown Heights

Brooklyn north is mostly slums.

Queens: Far Rockaway, Southside Jamaica, Queensbridge projects

Most of Queens is nice. The above two neighborhoods along with the Queensbridge projects stick out like sore thumbs.

Bronx: Mott Haven, Melrose, Morrisania, Hunts Point, Soundview, Highbridge, Tremont, East Tremont, Morris Heights, University Heights, Fordham, Fordham-Bedford, Wakefield, North Bronx projects, Castle Hill Projects

I've said enough on the Bronx.

Staten Island: Dont know too much.

Basically the above areas are the ghettos in the respective boroughs. That doesn't mean that they cant be resided in, just that they're undesirable. Some are really bad though.

Castle Hill Projects aren't that bad I have live their most of my life. Birth to 2007 witch is 35 years. I move in 2007 to another part of the Bronx it wasn't the projects that I didn't like it was some of the people I was sick of see them.

[KRaZy]

Isn't J.Lo from castle hill???

[DoubleXAs]

Originally Posted by KRaZy

Isn't J.Lo from castle hill???

Yes! Jenny from the block...

[KRaZy]

From the castle hill PJs?

[DoubleXAs]

Originally Posted by KRaZy

From the castle hill PJs?

Na...she lived in a house growing up.

[KRaZy]

So... is castle hill still bad??? I don't think I've ever been to that part of the BX!?

[Guywithacause]

I think once you go from castle hill to a 10,000sf house in Beverly Hills, you can no longer be called "J-Lo" or "from the block." If she were really "J-Lo" and "from the block" as she claims every 5 seconds (to boost record sales), she would STILL be living on the block and helping those in her community...and not just showing up for pics every 3 years right before she drops a new album.

Castle Hill seems to be about the same to me for about 15 years. New housing, but same people....the push from Manhattan will take AWHILE before it gets there...it is just now pushing up through Mott Haven and into Melrose (the new condos and developments going up) and Longwood (the great brownstones).

[Materialism]

Originally Posted by Guywithacause

I think once you go from castle hill to a 10,000sf house in Beverly Hills, you can no longer be called "J-Lo" or "from the block." If she were really "J-Lo" and "from the block" as she claims every 5 seconds (to boost record sales), she would STILL be living on the block and helping those in her community...and not just showing up for pics every 3 years right before she drops a new album.

Castle Hill seems to be about the same to me for about 15 years. New housing, but same people....the push from Manhattan will take AWHILE before it gets there...it is just now pushing up through Mott Haven and into Melrose (the new condos and developments going up) and Longwood (the great brownstones).

Actually, Jennifer Lopez doesn't live in Beverly Hills. She lives in Brookville, Long Island which isn't too far and she does help out in the Bronx with her $$.

[Guywithacause]

The point is...."Jenny from the Block" grabbed her stuff and ran when she made her money to some other locale that is FAR removed (geographically, socially, economically, racially) from "the realness" of Castle Hill that she harps on every chance she gets. I guess its great to have all that realness, except when you have money and can do better....and screw everyone else. Those pics of her kids for $3 million...wonder what it will go for? More bling? or Donated to a few after school programs in the Bronx to educate kids, provide summers AWAY from the inner city so they can see life OUTSIDE of the poverty? Scholarships for kids in her neighborhood? Sponsoring community activists to make the REAL improvements her community needs? How about not riding on the float during the PR day parade, and instead going back to her block, grabbing a broom, and showing NOBODY is too good to clean their community and respecting yourself and your "block" IS cool.

Someone who is REAL takes their success and STAYS in the community, not because they HAVE to, but because if YOU won't even stay in the community and care about it, why should/would anyone else?