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Like riaelise stated, i to am proud of being born and raised in the bronx. Your post is a little over the top. For one i live in soundview right now. In a quite gated community with no gunshots to be heard. So that tells you right there, that there are good parts and bad parts everywhere even down to a neighborhood level, let alone the entire borough. And the bronx isnt anybodys dumpster, maybe the south bronx but ot the borough as a whole.
And the thing that irks my jerk. Brooklyn,queens and manhatan all have "dumpsters" aswell. Especially brooklyn, its not just the bronx at all
What do you mean by Bronx restoration sites? If you mean major new developments, look to Melrose. That community is, I believe, one of the fasest if not the fastest growing community in NYC. There are a number of lots that have been developed, and a major 1 million sf development (northrose) to include a college, dense working/middle class housing, retail, and commercial. The remaining lots have just been bought and will be developed as middled class housing also...the entire swath of Melrose has literally been built brick by brick, and it will be completely rebuilt over the next 3 years.
Not to mention the community that existed in Melrose before the development played a big part in the construction without any sort of displacements.
Agreed that every borough has its dumpster. But I think the difference with the other boroughs and the Bronx is that you can avoid the bad areas in the others. In Manhattan, just avoid going Uptown. In Queens, Southside and Farrock are very isolated from the rest of Queens. The Brooklyn hoods are all in the northern/eastern part of BK, and they are all bunched up. Easily avoidable. But in the BX, it's really hard to avoid the hood just cause it's everywhere. Even the decent areas are kinda gritty.
Also I think the Bronx gets hated on less now than before. But it's hard to compete with the BK, QNZ, and THE CITY.
I never knew, say, Country Club was "gritty". There are decent Bx neighborhoods and then there are great Bx neighborhoods. Not all of them are shoot em up Dodge Cities. What's stopping you from leaving where you're at now and leveling up instead of dissing a place post in and post out? It's all about the green, and if you have a decent amount of green, you're not going to be living in a 'dumpster.' Of course, there's going to be good with the bad, but that's anywhere. If you think that the other boroughs are these utopias with isolated pockets, you're crazy, man.
Interspersed with the tony neighborhoods are gritty areas - that's how NYC was designed. The high crime rate is on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis. There are a number of places whose crime rates have remained stable for many years. There are many places that aren't seeing a mass migration, I can name at least 10 neighborhoods off the top of my head.
For those who think the Bronx is a dumpster, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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