Which New York neighborhood was SAFE during the crack era?

[BigMan]

South shore Staten Island

 

[BaviKingVA]

I don't even wanna imagine what shyt was like for my mother's family

 

[Foxmulder]

Bayside Queens

 

[UberEatsDriver]

But they were safe for all non-mob members in comparison to other neighborhoods, hence the word, “safest”, in the OP. Also, crack wasn’t a problem in their neighborhoods that’s why they had very low crime rates.

Yea they were but these white folks will sit online and say an area like Canarsie is dangerous or they will say blacks people ruined their areas when these same areas had lower or similar crime rates (mafia killings) back then.


Canarsie for example is one of the few areas that wasn’t much different today than it was in the crack era when it was less black back then

 

[JadeB]

Yea they were but these white folks will sit online and say an area like Canarsie is dangerous or they will say blacks people ruined their areas when these same areas had lower or similar crime rates (mafia killings) back then.


Canarsie for example is one of the few areas that wasn’t much different today than it was in the crack era when it was less black back then

How's Canarsie like? I haven't heard much from that place

 

[UberEatsDriver]

How's Canarsie like? I haven't heard much from that place

Middle class Caribbean neighborhood. Doesn’t look anything like the NYC you see in movies. Barely any buildings just private homes and multi family homes.


Also you need a car in most of the area cause lack of trains.


Area has 3 housing projects as far as apartment building goes.


Not a bad area but the area does have a gang problem and the people who live there swear they live in the hood. Only the projects are the hood in that area.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Most white areas were safe, that’s why they came to Black areas to buy crack, and leave.

Ehh define “white areas” this has changed over the decades outside of the predominantly white ones

For example the upper west side was very sketchy

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

Ehh define “white areas” this has changed over the decades outside of the predominantly white ones

For example the upper west side was very sketchy

I’m talking about white areas during the Crack Era, not the areas of now.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

You have to also understand there was a certain amount of spillage in these so called safe neighborhoods too. Packs & stragglers wandering about…there was always a possibility for being mugged, raped or assaulted

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

I’m talking about white areas during the Crack Era, not the areas of now.

That’s my point. What are you definitively classifying as a “white area” in the 80s?

 

[JadeB]

Middle class Caribbean neighborhood. Doesn’t look anything like the NYC you see in movies. Barely any buildings just private homes and multi family homes.


Also you need a car in most of the area cause lack of trains.


Area has 3 housing projects as far as apartment building goes.


Not a bad area but the area does have a gang problem and the people who live there swear they live in the hood. Only the projects are the hood in that area.

Literally sounds like Baldwin Hills in LA. It has a reputation of being a nice neighborhood for middle class Blacks but kids there love to fake like they from Compton or Valencia Park. Ice Cube, for example; grew up in Baldwin Hills and had middle class parents and went to a good high school.

 

[Cave Savage]

Hipsters were probably hanging out in the LES as far back as the 60s

 

[Sad Bunny]

Dinner with jay z.

 

[JadeB]

Double post

 

[JadeB]

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