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I'm curious to know why "suburban bred" students would choose Harlem, of all the neighborhoods in New York? You're certainly going to find it an eye-opening experience--and I may be pretty guilty of understatement when I say that.
Because it is more affordable than other neighborhoods in Manhattan.
OP - That doesn't sound like a great street to me. Lenox wasn't exactly the safest spot, and I'm sure gentrification didn't change that.
exactly.....and we've agreed on this point before - harlem has good and bad blocks.....i dont think 129th and lenox is one of the more desirable ones....if i was moving to harlem, i would choose either riverside drive or anywhere along broadway or amsterdam, or madison ave or fifth ave south of 125th...i know there's other pockets, but to me those are the biggest ones, after that it would be broken down by a block-to-block basis.
And that's the problem... "good and bad blocks". Unless you're taking a Sikorski from work to home, you're going to have to walk through/past those "bad blocks" in order to get to your home. The OP says she'll be coming home at night. I don't believe she'd be safe in that area.
It's easy for people who don't live in Harlem to say "there's good and bad". You really don't know unless you've lived or worked there. I've worked there and I'll tell you, I wouldn't recommend living there to anyone.
Omigawd, there are good and bad blocks of most any neighborhood in the city and especially in Manhattan. This is both Uptown and Downtown. So let's not generalize Harlem and say that it's only Harlem. There are blocks of the LES, East Village and Midtown West and Wash Hts/Inwood (to name only a few areas) that also have sketchy blocks and really cool gorgeous blocks as well. Harlem is the same.
To the OP: 129th and Lenox has some new developments but this block has always been sketchy. On Lenox, I would live well below 125th St, as close to 110-116 as possible.
And that's the problem... "good and bad blocks". Unless you're taking a Sikorski from work to home, you're going to have to walk through/past those "bad blocks" in order to get to your home. The OP says she'll be coming home at night. I don't believe she'd be safe in that area.
It's easy for people who don't live in Harlem to say "there's good and bad". You really don't know unless you've lived or worked there. I've worked there and I'll tell you, I wouldn't recommend living there to anyone.
there are parts of harlem where it is possible to avoid walking down a bad block if you live there...i'm just saying that the particular one the OP inquired about isnt good.
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For years there was a church being built on that corner that just never got off the ground, now the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints aka Mormans have built what appears from the outside to be a beautiful temple on that site.
The area seems to be coming along. I have no idea how it is late at night, I have only been in the area during business hours.
And that's the problem... "good and bad blocks". Unless you're taking a Sikorski from work to home, you're going to have to walk through/past those "bad blocks" in order to get to your home. The OP says she'll be coming home at night. I don't believe she'd be safe in that area.
It's easy for people who don't live in Harlem to say "there's good and bad". You really don't know unless you've lived or worked there. I've worked there and I'll tell you, I wouldn't recommend living there to anyone.
Didn't you say you worked in East harlem? That's technically not even the same neighborhood. This is like that Jamaica thread all over.
Lenox to Morningside, 110-125, are all reasonably good. There are always blocks here and there that are a bit sketchy, but it's easy enough to avoid them late at night. And during the day...it's all fine in that lower west part. Have been here for 2 years, on 118th and now moving to 114th, with zero problems. (30-something Caucasian woman with a young child.)
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