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

[Malta]

My fam lived on 154th and Melrose. I pretty much grew up out there. I used to be chillin with my cousins on Courtlandt too.

I heard they closed down Dino's too My fav pizzaria.

Of course @ the bolded.

Courtlandt? I had 2 friends that lived in Jackson, one was killed out there, and the other I still talk to sometimes.

I haven't been back in years, but I hear it's still just as shytty as ever, maybe not as violent but still could get your wig split.

 

[Sansprix]

Courtlandt? I had 2 friends that lived in Jackson, one was killed out there, and the other I still talk to sometimes.

I haven't been back in years, but I hear it's still just as shytty as ever, maybe not as violent but still could get your wig split.

It's still shytty....and still pretty violent. My cousin is always calling me and telling me who got shot/killed....all her near death experiences from strays, it's crazy.

 

[Dead End]

Brutal New York - 1965/95 - SkyscraperCity

The book them pix come from I used to steal from my dad and look through when I was a youngin'. Was like a crash course on the rest of the country (at the time we had left Chicago for small-town Iowa).

 

[Piffiztheanswer]

My pops told me wild stories about back in the day BX n Brooklyn.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

shyt was crazy.

 

[AB Ziggy]

It's still crazy to an extent in South BX today but not like 20-30 years ago. But gentrification already hitting hard Mott Haven, 161st St, and Bruckner Blvd.

nikkas said BX is immune because of widespread projects and the Cross BX Expressway, but I knew these cacs would find a way.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

It's still crazy to an extent in South BX today but not like 20-30 years ago. But gentrification already hitting hard Mott Haven, 161st St, and Bruckner Blvd.

nikkas said BX is immune because of widespread projects and the Cross BX Expressway, but I knew these cacs would find a way.

they trying to rename the South Bronx to "SoBro".

 

[AB Ziggy]

they trying to rename the South Bronx to "SoBro".

And Piano District

nikkas on 183rd, East Tremont, and West Farms still don't play

 

[How Sway?]

I been to the bx before (in 2011)

I thought it was pretty hood. Didn't really feel dangerous persay but it was definitely the hood With a ton of immigrants (Esp africans and mexicans)

 

[RicanFury]

long live the squeegee men!

 

[AB Ziggy]

I been to the bx before (in 2011)

I thought it was pretty hood. Didn't really feel dangerous persay but it was definitely the hood With a ton of immigrants (Esp africans and mexicans)

Sounds like you were around Concourse and Jerome, Africans are increasingly taking over those areas.

 

[ridedolo]

As a NYer you miss the old grimy new york even though you really shouldnt.

lol i feel like this all the time. these damn modern colonizers stripped away the grimyness that made new york, new york.

 

[How Sway?]

Sounds like you were around Concourse and Jerome, Africans are increasingly taking over those areas.

Yeah those namessound familiar. I was on Tremont ave. And Melrose ave. Too.

Ghanaians are deep up there

 

[Drones]

I remember watching Rumble In the Bronx as a kid and hitting the Larry Merchant face when I saw those hoods they filmed it in. Where I'm from houses are standard so seeing defaced and grimy apartments for blocks and blocks was jarring. Are any parts of the Bronx still like that?

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I always feel like a BX nikka.

Gritty, grimey, and will snatch a nikka'z chain and dance around wit it.