Brownsville section of Brooklyn in 1971

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and they be like 30 other nikkas in the hallway. :sadcam::wow:
 

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Yea that's why I asked and that virgin in here in his feelings over a simple question
70s/80s shyt looked like Detroit, Times Square was full of drug addicts and hookers. Then that demon Giuliani started locking everyone up, they turned Times Square into a tourist trap and suddenly it's the greatest city on earth. I love NYC btw I was just asking when that title came to be used :manny:

No... stop

Everybody and they mama know why NYC has that title. You tried to be slick while being from San Francisco of all places, got called out, and now you mad.

Which is why you still passive aggressively mentioning me in this thread, fukking cornballs man. :pachaha:
 

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I wouldn't go that far, Brownsville has always been a dump. In the early 1900s it was mainly Jewish and Italian and it was still a really fukked up place to live in. Some of the most notorious mob gangsters were born and raised in Brownsville. Its actually getting better now but not for good reasons, its getting ready to be gentrified.

Maybe not in Brownsville but in small towns all over the country the systematic socioeconomic slavery is still going on
 

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No... stop

Everybody and they mama know why NYC has that title. You tried to be slick while being from San Francisco of all places, got called out, and now you mad.

Which is why you still passive aggressively mentioning me in this thread, fukking cornballs man. :pachaha:

you're in here making gay jokes like an 8th grader talking shyt about San Francisco like I give a shyt about SF enough to argue about it

What kind of a virgin cornball would argue and get defensive about a city on an online forum

Oh wait

:mjlol:
 

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you're in here making gay jokes like an 8th grader talking shyt about San Francisco like I give a shyt about SF enough to argue about it

What kind of a virgin cornball would argue and get defensive about a city on an online forum

Oh wait

:mjlol:

Riight

Are we finished here my man?
 

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When we're these buildings built and how did the destruction occur?
Gotta think they were built at the turn of the century or earlier.
Poor maintenance...pretty much the way everything degrades...

Also have to assume that when PRs and black people moved in, the property owners and city just ignored the area...which didn't help.
 

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Never said that, I was responding to a post about NYC, and I was born and grew up here in the early 80's so Im old enough to know what it was like. You could be anywhere and get snatched up off the street in a second. I'd ask you where you from but I really don't give a fukk tbh :heh: all I know is that you prob from somewhere in Cali and got attracted to a NY thread like how most of you dudes usually do.
Lol, NY nikkas still throwing shots at Cali nikkas

the beef was over 20 years ago, let it go, yall lost :mjlol:



I know, ima street historian :ufdup:
 

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Gotta think they were built at the turn of the century or earlier.
Poor maintenance...pretty much the way everything degrades...
Who was behind it? Who caused these fires? I haven't done any research yet but why do I get the feeling opportunists and capitalists were behind this.
 

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Who is behind it? Who caused these fires? I haven't done any research yet but why do I get the feeling opportunists and capitalists were behind this.
Hard to say.

In a lot of cases you had arsonists in the city...sometimes a$$hole tenants would start fires.
But it was well known that in a lot of parts of the city -- the South Bronx especially -- lots of building owners had fires set to their own buildings to collect the insurance.
 

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One thing I noticed about NYC bacc in the days, compared to now(as an outsider looking in), was that alot of the street nikkas in 70s/80s/90s NYC had a down south mentality as far as street violence goes.
Like when you read about the murders and notorious gangsters bacc then, they always did crazy crimes like cut nikkas up, tie them to some shyt and shoot them, shoot them then burn the bodies etc.. Them type of homicides are more so shyt you see down south, even today.
 

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Basically what I'm saying, I think a big reason why NYC was so dangerous back then, was it was basically a bunch of grimey, tough down south nikkas, put together on a small, densely populated island living on top of each other, forced to survive.
 
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