Old pics of nyc are crazy

[CashmereThoughts]

South Bronx
North Bronx (with pockets of ratchet)

Still applies today

Where in the north BX? Like co op city area, this shy is for the birds Fam no trains

 

[Azul]

Where in the north BX? Like co op city area, this shy is for the birds Fam no trains

A few blocks from the 5 train

 

[CashmereThoughts]

co-sign.. this is why i love chicago..it's such a CLEAN city

. Many places in Chicago that are DIRTY AF. Don't get it twisted because nikkas are talking about the SOUTH BRONX, that it means NYC is dirty. You could live your whole live in NY and never go to the south BX

 

[CashmereThoughts]

A few blocks from the 5 train

Oh ok.. I live right off the 4 and the D. Best combo of trains you can have

 

[Michael's Black Son]

. Many places in Chicago that are DIRTY AF. Don't get it twisted because nikkas are talking about the SOUTH BRONX, that it means NYC is dirty. You could live your whole live in NY and never go to the south BX

Sadly this is true. People will have you think the Bronx is Mogadishu circa the mid 90s and you'd never step foot in there. It's a good and bad thing because the area seemingly becomes immune to takeovers/gentrification but it also gets shytted on (heavily), neglected and some of It's own residents have no problem being immersed in its downfall.

 

[Scientific Playa]

fun city revisited the Lindsay years

 

[RatherUnique]

Damn i wish they could do a follow up on the main characters in that video. Especially the short spanish dude at the end talking about his stolen handlebars. That was mad interesting to watch. The Nazi symbols were weird as fukk

 

[Rich Spirit]

dope pic

 

[AntiHero]

Even though a ton so buildings got burned/abandoned, most survived and got fixed up since they were salvageable and it was cheaper than doing new construction. But what those landlords did back then was just dirty. You had children living in these buildings and to just set it on fire as a means to get these people out is just sadistic. In other instances, these CACs would pay the local gangs to terrorize people into moving out, which sometimes worked, and then they could torch it without collateral damage.

Wait, so these vacant lots we see today in nyc were all burned down tenements? I noticed that there's usually bricks on the ground as if the building collapsed.

Some parts still look the same.

 

[AntiHero]

Damn i wish they could do a follow up on the main characters in that video. Especially the short spanish dude at the end talking about his stolen handlebars. That was mad interesting to watch. The Nazi symbols were weird as fukk

Fly?

He's in prison for raping two girls then throwing them down a elevator shaft and stabbing them to death . Dudes back then were ruthless.

They used to sport swastikas for the shock value, it had nothing to do with race. It was basically a symbol to look "bad ass".

 

[#1 pick]

White flight is over man. It's a result of blacks/Hispanics (mostly) moving into the urban areas and (real talk) is deeply rooted in racism. You have a black family move into a white area and the people who already love there feel like the value of everything is gonna plummet and there's gonna be all kinds of crime and fukkery to go along with it.

The odd thing about it is that people have immigrated to this country for a better life for a couple of centuries (especially in the east). But when it's immigration from European countries (Italy, Greece, Jews from Europe) the it's all good because they want to upgrade life for their families. But when you have poor black from the south and folks from Latin/South America/Caribbean doing it, then a red flag is raised and it's like the whole neighborhood is gonna go to shyt.

White flight is just a term for racist bullshyt and they fled to the suburbs while the areas they left behind had some serious drop off. Adding to the drop off was the fact that the minorities moving in we're poor as fukk and some were ratchet. It's a bad combination of variables.

Now, in many parts of NY we're experiencing this "reversal" in white flight, and you have folks from the middle of nowhere America gentrifying the fukk out of the "urban" parts. Suddenly the "hood" isn't the hood anymore and the black/brown folks are being pushed to shytty areas or leaving the city altogether because rents are artificially high/inflated (so-called "market rate") and the people coming in are willing to pay whatever just to be in the city.

There's ln housing shortages in NY. If you showed up to an apartment in the hood with $10gz in cash, you'll will get to rent that apartment THAT DAY. if you show up with $1.5 million in cash to buy a lux apartment in the city/Brooklyn, you will get the crib THAT DAY. These realtors will make it seem like housing is scarce because people want to get in on the cheaper prices (who wouldn't) so it's like they are creating an artificial bidding war over vacancies they don't realize exist.

Huh, white flight is going on right now breh in many parts of the country. Man, wtf are you talking about?

 

[ThugLife]

So much culture here. I hate this generation of America

Ya we should all go back to living in squalor

 

[Ruck]

that's the new yawk that created hip hop

 

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

fast forward to 2013.. this is Biggie's old hood on St James n Fulton BK.

Queensbrigde Projects in 2013

 

[StickStickly]

So it looks better now?