My thoughts on gentrification (New York, Woodstock: estimated, residential, commuters)
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Infamous, thats an interesting assumption. But if we based everything on what we saw, how can we ever come to any real conclusion about anything? Everyone will have very different experiences and thus make wildly different assumptions about crime. Which is why we have to use crime stats (which are far from bible truth) as well as our own experiences and perceptions, and put those all into some context about crime. I do not believe we have ridiculously high crime like we did in the 70s-90s, and I believe the long term trends are decidely downward, however it is entirely possible that crime had a post economic-collapse uptick this year, which is what most people expected but did not appear in the stats.
I would like to know what recent transplants feel about crime in NYC?
I understand what you're saying but its not just me who's noticing more crime this year. I agree that it isn't as bad as in the 70's-90's but if you're still have to duck bullets (on more than one occasion) there's still too much crime, when you here so and so got killed on the Boulevard there's still too much crime, when you see 5 cops running down the block there's too much crime. This is just some of 2009 (your results may vary lol).
I don't want to be around this anymore whether crime is going up or down it seems like still the same thing to me, I can't wait to get out of here.
Infamous where do you plan on going to escape crime, or at least this sort of crime? I have found that other larger cities are in fact more dangerous, where would you recommend?
Infamous where do you plan on going to escape crime, or at least this sort of crime? I have found that other larger cities are in fact more dangerous, where would you recommend?
Every large city has good and bad spots so you can't really say a city is more dangerous than another, and plus its not like I'm going to be living in another city's ghetto. New York City's crime rate (every city's crime rate as well) doesn't reflect the whole city, its not some utopia.
Does anyone notice for the past few months there's been more shootings/stabbings in the Corona/East Elmhurst/Elmhurst area consistently showing up on Gothamist?
Does anyone notice for the past few months there's been more shootings/stabbings in the Corona/East Elmhurst/Elmhurst area consistently showing up on Gothamist?
Haven't noticed anything in Elmhurst but if I did that would be pretty surprising.. Corona and East Elmhurst, I could understand.
Shots Fired | Marcy Ave & Myrtle Ave Brooklyn, NY | 11/8/2009 9:23 a.m. Armed Robbery | 57-15 Northern Blvd X 58 St Queens, NY | 11/8/2009 9:23 a.m. Bank Robbery | 420 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, NY | 11/8/2009 9:24 a.m. Armed Robbery | Central Park West @ West 97 Street Manhattan, NY | 11/8/2009 9:24 a.m. Shots Fired / Foot Pursuit | West 140 St & 7th Ave Manhattan, NY | 11/8/2009 9:24 a.m. Shooting | 1595 East 174 Street Bronx, NY | 11/8/2009 9:24 a.m. Crime Scene | Holland Ave Staten Island, NY | 11/8/2009 9:25 a.m. Robbery | 42 St & 6 Ave Manhattan, NY | 11/8/2009 9:25 a.m. Home Invasion | 144 St & 120 Av Queens, NY | 11/8/2009 9:25 a.m. Car Jacking | 79th St & Glenwood Rd Brooklyn, NY | 11/8/2009 9:25 a.m. Shots Fired | 901 E 56th St Brooklyn, NY | 11/8/2009 9:25 a.m. Male Shot | 34-41 Linden Pl 35 Ave Queens, NY | 11/8/2009 9:25 a.m. Homicide | 110 Ave Queens, NY | 11/8/2009 9:25 a.m. Shooting | College Ave & E 169st Bronx, NY | 11/8/2009 9:25 a.m. Shooting | Manor Ave & E 174st Bronx, NY | 11/8/2009 9:25 a.m. Shooting | Waldron As & Otis Av Queens, NY | 11/8/2009 9:25 a.m.
Shooting | Richmond University Medical Center E/r Staten Island, NY | 11/8/2009 9:24 a.m.
Shooting | 3441 Linden Blvd Brooklyn, NY | 11/8/2009 9:24 a.m.
Crime has natural ebbs and flows. Anyone who thought NYC was going to somehow come up with 20% declines year-after-year until zero crime was left was smoking rocks. As long as NYS does it's best to nuture and sustain it's welfare class, NY will always have some level of violence.
The late 90s/early 00's was really NY's true crime rate. People act like there is only two levels of crime: The genocide of the early 90s or the extremely low crime of the mid 00s. IMHO, I think slowly we'll see a return to 1999/2000 levels of crime and then it'll recede a little from there.
Also, keep in mind that once the oh-so-hated gentrification slows, alot of dormant "elements" in those hoods will feel more emboldend. So be careful what you wish for.
If you live in yuppyville and/or are trying to sell real estate then crime is down
If you live in hood and/or if you're a so called Black/Hispanic/Latino then crime is up.
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