Smitty-48 wrote:The Bronx is apparently the hottest market in New York right now.
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Crazy that the median listing in Mott Haven south is $704,000. That's the median, that's stunning.
The hipsters calling the South Bronx; "SoBro". lol.
The Bronx is back to 1963 crime levels? Talk about renaissance.
See this is the problem for the Bernie Bros, they have no perspective, they go on and on about how rough it is in America now and how great it was back in the good ol' days, but they weren't there, they don't remember the seventies, compared to the seventies, America is booming now.
The doomsayers talking about the "the collapse", that's kind of what New York was in the seventies, and into the eighties as well, Harlem and South Bronx weren't so much "ghettos" as they were bombed out, looked more like London in the blitz, housing projects were the nice places to live, the alternative was living in burnt out rubble, whole city blocks of rubble and burnt out buildings.
Thing is, rough as it was, there wasn't nearly as much caterwauling about doomsday back then, New Yorker's just carried on, you had to be tough to live in New York, they wore it like a badge of honor.
This is how the whole hip-hop thing caught on, it came out of New York, right out of the Bronx, and so all of a sudden rock n' rollers were a bunch of pansy fops, all the kids wanted to be rappers, cause rappers was tough, that became the tough guy image.
The kids in Regent Park in Toronto started fronting like they were from the Bronx, but I was like "I've been to the Bronx, this ain't the Bronx", and they would just double take "you've been to the Bronx?!"
Shit I've been to prison before many times but you don't see me bragging about it...
