What did New York City used to be like?

[john goodman]

Part of the stadium plan is luxury condos... The master plan is to gentrify the hell out of it... Makes sense it's surrounded by wealthy areas and is well served by public transit

 

[Yinny]

It might not, the area around Yankee Stadium is hood as fukk and the Yankees been playing in that location for years, so Downtown BK might retain its character.

Well, nobody wants to be in the Bronx period

but I suspect I'm right, I was driving along Flatbush and Atlantic and saw the lil hood spots, BWW, Marshall's, Pathmark only a matter of time before the rents are through the roof in that spot. I'm pissy as hell they put it right there though, what a shytshow for traffic already

 

[Canada Goose]

TBH I wish they could have built the Arena in Floyd Bennett Field, big empty space, its still in Brooklyn, more than enough room for parking, etc

 

[filial_piety]

Downtown BK is still surprisingly hood as fukk, but I'm sure that's gonna change with Barclay's Center open.

It depends on where you're at. The area around the Barclay's Center is pretty expensive and well maintained. Once you get past Atlantic Avenue it defintely changes. And once you cross Flatbush and Atlantic it's different too and looks more low income. But the areas between Flatbush Ave, Fulton Ave up to Lafayette and over towards Manhattan bridge around Fort Green park are fru fru as fukk...white pople outside picking daisies and life is just grand. It's like Soho over there now. But over by Ingersol and Walt Whitman houses on Myrtle Ave is still hood as hell.That area still has shootings.

 

[Vagina Thief]

This is how it was/is in my hood. shyt is still grimey out here idk why people act like it's all that safe to walk around at night. Granted it's not as bad as the early 90's but it's still crazy [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWaBHU-29pg[/ame]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XLzywOpfgQ&feature=related[/ame]

Crack was invented in my hood brehs.. That crack epidemic was started in uptown Washington heights. A few blocks north of Harlem
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[the next guy]

This is how it was/is in my hood. shyt is still grimey out here idk why people act like it's all that safe to walk around at night. Granted it's not as bad as the early 90's but it's still crazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWaBHU-29pg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XLzywOpfgQ&feature=related

Crack was invented in my hood brehs.. That crack epidemic was started in uptown Washington heights. A few blocks north of Harlem
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[69 others]

This is how it was/is in my hood. shyt is still grimey out here idk why people act like it's all that safe to walk around at night. Granted it's not as bad as the early 90's but it's still crazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWaBHU-29pg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XLzywOpfgQ&feature=related

Crack was invented in my hood brehs.. That crack epidemic was started in uptown Washington heights. A few blocks north of Harlem
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Not with this shyt again about some dominican in WH invented crack

 

[aRoMaN21]

This is how it was/is in my hood. shyt is still grimey out here idk why people act like it's all that safe to walk around at night. Granted it's not as bad as the early 90's but it's still crazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWaBHU-29pg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XLzywOpfgQ&feature=related

Crack was invented in my hood brehs.. That crack epidemic was started in uptown Washington heights. A few blocks north of Harlem
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It wasnt invented in your hood. It was put there. By the CIA. They made the recipe.
The city that never sleeps was the first place to spread the epidemic, so you're correct in a different way.

Cocaine, in excess, was being imported by Ross, Gallardo and Caro-Quintero.
They (the CIA) put what they confiscated and cooked out into the hoods first and just like the pilgrims, gave diseased blankets out to start a domino effect.
Think about it. 1985 is the birth of Reagans ultimate fukk over plan.
Say No to drugs? Tell a person NOT to do something, and more than likely theyll do what you asked them not to do.
Reagan used his unsuspecting wife as a spokesperson when all the while he had an evil and calculated plan. smh

 

[Vagina Thief]

It's crazy because any way you put it they picked the perfect place and time to hit the streets with that shyt. Whats funny is that it was some highschool dudes that started flooding them crack vials uptown then moved on to the BX. At the time it was something like 2,000 homicides a year. Nowadays it's safe as hell with all the police around here looking like martial law and shyt.
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[intruder]

Before the hipsters, Guliani's clean up, 9/11, etc

I hear all these stories about the old New York, so what was it like?

Almost like a Mobb Deep album depending on who you ask.

 

[Whitty Hutton]

Just watch New York Undercover repeats, they matched the vibe pretty well along with the music they used to play during the scenes.
Malik Yoba was trying to bring it back, but it wouldnt even be the same. Imagine today's music that would play during scenes

chasing a group of hipsters in Abercrombie stealing sunglasses from Macy's with Drake playing in the background isn't as compelling television as chasing down hood murderers in bubble gooses to Mobb Deep music

 

[Carolina Slim]

But over by Ingersol and Walt Whitman houses on Myrtle Ave is still hood as hell.That area still has shootings.

Yeah, that ain't never gonna change... Cross Fort Greene Park from DeKalb Ave side on over to Myrtle Ave, and life changes drastically.

 

[King Crimson]

I love my NYC peoples. Especially you Brooklyn folk.

 

[the next guy]

Almost like a Mobb Deep album depending on who you ask.

Gotta take a look at Mobb Depp

Yeah, that ain't never gonna change... Cross Fort Greene Park from DeKalb Ave side on over to Myrtle Ave, and life changes drastically.

Hey old man, i know you from brooklyn, spill on the childhood stories.

 

[Nature Boy Ric Flair]

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