Was the south bronx really this bad back in the day?

[CrossBones]

 

[lachreyatarbabypits]

All of Ny was fukked up in the 80s lookin slummy and shyt. The Mobsters were murkin nikkas in Staten, Fat Cat and Pappy was murkin in Queens, South Bronx was a fukking haven for heron addicts and the dirty Jew slum lords would hire them to burn the buildings down so they could sell them off and get insurance money, Brooklyn, Brooklyn will ALWAYS be shytty no matter how many hipsters move to the outskirts. Once you hit Brownsville and Bed Stuy it done. And Manhattan was fillled with pros, peep shows and pushers. Giuliani really cleaned this bytch up. I commend him for that. Bloomberg bytch ass.

 

[Vagina Thief]

My pops grew up in the Bronx and in upper Manhattan during those years. He told me some wild ass stories and he's lucky to be alive to this day. Out of 10 of his homies 8 died and the other one is in prison. shyt was gully as gully can be back then and nikkas think shyt is tough now... TUH!​

 

[Trip]

All of Ny was fukked up in the 80s lookin slummy and shyt. The Mobsters were murkin nikkas in Staten, Fat Cat and Pappy was murkin in Queens, South Bronx was a fukking haven for heron addicts and the dirty Jew slum lords would hire them to burn the buildings down so they could sell them off and get insurance money, Brooklyn, Brooklyn will ALWAYS be shytty no matter how many hipsters move to the outskirts. Once you hit Brownsville and Bed Stuy it done. And Manhattan was fillled with pros, peep shows and pushers. Giuliani really cleaned this bytch up. I commend him for that. Bloomberg bytch ass.

hahah...jewish lightning as my pops called it

 

[newworldafro]

Apparently, its going from Jackie Chan cleaning up the neighborhood

to

Bronx Development - Page 27

modern mixed income housing

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

i grew up in the Bronx, born there in the mid '70's and left in the early '90's.
shyt was crazy. crack viles and needles everywhere.

South Bronx was a war zone.

 

[Bud Bundy]

It was gully there back in the day. Check the murders back in the day. New York as a whole was a war zone outside of the glamorous, few blocks of Manhattan.

yep. Ask anyone who is 35+ how fukked up NY was in the 80's and it was even worse in the 70's when the cops were out right dirty. But good thing it is alot safer now.

I never got why people brag about living in a warzone.

 

[Sansprix]

Yeah, it was definitely fukkin crazy back then. I grew up in the '80's in the BX and it was scary at those times. Gunshots at all times of the day, crack was just poppin off, the subways were I felt like I was going into a dungeon every time I had to ride the train as a kid.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

yep. Ask anyone who is 35+ how fukked up NY was in the 80's and it was even worse in the 70's when the cops were out right dirty. But good thing it is alot safer now.

I never got why people brag about living in a warzone.

i grew up in Castle Hill...shyt was retarded.
a crack head got tossed off the 12th story balcony right next door to me one day. the blood stains where there for a month.

i saw a couple of drive by's...it was lame. that's why my parents moved the fam up out of there.

 

[BrothaZay]

1971
41st Precinct [Hunts Point (Bronx)] 2.1 Square Miles
Murder: 102
Rape: 74
Robbery: 2,600
Assault: 1,000
Burglary: 6,400
Community Population: 25,000
Murder Rate: 408 murders per 100,000 people a year

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South Bronx neighborhoods in 1990:
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40th- Mott Haven - 72 murders

pop : 77,214 (93 homicides per 100,000) (104 rapes per 100,000) (2,800 robberies per 100,000) (1,508 assaults per 100,000)

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41st- Hunts Point- 44 murders

pop : 39,443 (112 homicides per 100,000) (74 rapes per 100,000) (2,776 robberies per 100,000) (1,391 assaults per 100,000)

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42nd- Morrisania- 54 murders

pop: 57,162 (94 homicides per 100,000) (98 rapes per 100,000) (2,113 robberies per 100,000) (1,506 assaults per 100,000)

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44th- Highbridge- 89 murders

pop: 119,962 (74 homicides per 100,000) (75 rapes per 100,000) (1,823 robberies per 100,000) (1,367 assaults per 100,000)

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46th- Tremont - 82 murders

pop: 118,435 (69 homicides per 100,000)(63 rapes per 100,000) (2,393 robberies per 100,000) (1,047 assaults per 100,000)

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* there was an arson fire in this hood. The number in parenthesis is the stat excluding the arson that killed 90+ people:

48th - East Tremont- 137 murders

pop: 68,061 (201 homicides (63) per 100,000) (51 rapes per 100,000) (1,802 robberies per 100,000) (959 assaults per 100,000)

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In total these central/south Bronx hoods combined for:

478 murders
480,307
100 murder rate (81 murder rate)

And the "true south Bronx" hoods were worse:

pop :173,819 (170 homicides (98) per 100,000)

 

[NYC Rebel]

I remember being a kid and always driving past some damn fire whenever I went to go visit fam that lived up the street from Yankee Stadium.

Even as I child, I knew that shyt was "different."

 

[PaperEnterprise]

shyt still the same. nikkas just hide the dirt a lil better

 

[Tom Foolery]

One of my favorite documentaries. Heard like half the people in the film are dead.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

yep. Ask anyone who is 35+ how fukked up NY was in the 80's and it was even worse in the 70's when the cops were out right dirty. But good thing it is alot safer now.

I never got why people brag about living in a warzone.

we need more stories from old heads in ny

haven't heard a good rap in a long time

 

[AgentGrey]

My pops always has a lot of stories from growin up in that area in that time, I always assumed his old ass was exaggerating as a youngin ​