Flatbush, Brooklyn block in the year 2000

[Cave Savage]

It was. It def gentrified before Crown Heights but It wasn’t worse than Crown Heights. It’s much nicer to be exact but in the 1990s a lot of areas had more than usual crime.

Plus Prospect Heights is surrounded by Clinton Hill and CrownHeights so there was a layover of crime in there also.

Just like St Albans in Queens has to deal with the layover of crime from South Jamaica.

Yeah, a lot of precincts now thought of as safe had quite a few murders back then. If I'm not mistaken even Rosedale's murder count back then would be considered a lot by today's standards.

Yea and Laurelton Queens

Yeah that whole chunk of Queens is basically all black besides the occasional Guyanese Indian.

Ha...man those cams were big as hell and expensive plus they attract the wrong attention.

It's common today for everyone to have 1000 dollar phones...but back then no one really had anything that valuable on them like that.

True, but I remember that by the end of the 90s at least there were some reasonably sized ones. My parents had one and they used it a fair amount, not sure what happened to it though.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Jamaicans caught in a drug raid

 

[Cave Savage]

I don't get why people say that all black NYC neighborhoods are also Latino neighborhoods and vice versa, outside of the Bronx and upper Manhattan that's usually not true

 

[Cave Savage]

Jamaicans caught in a drug raid

The police had fukkin .38s!! Damn were things different back then

 

[UberEatsDriver]

I don't get why people say that all black NYC neighborhoods are also Latino neighborhoods and vice versa, outside of the Bronx and upper Manhattan that's usually not true

African American and African probably.

West Indians blacks tend to live on their own.

Africans are interesting because even though they share neighborhoods with others they tend to not integrate.

I barely see Ghanaian and Dominican people talking or interacting in the west Bronx. I’m sure the American kids under them are a bit different but even with Ann american ive never seem An African chasing Dominican or Rican chick.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Columbian and Ecuadorians don’t live deep with black folks either

 

[filial_piety]

True, but I remember that by the end of the 90s at least there were some reasonably sized ones. My parents had one and they used it a fair amount, not sure what happened to it though.

Yeah the psychology of it is funny like that though with how things have changed.

Today you can film people on phone cams just about anywhere and people wouldn't think twice about it...but in the late 90s early 2000s if you walked around filming people they'd probably start a fight just off GP...it was just considered rude and threatening.

 

[Cave Savage]

Columbian and Ecuadorians don’t live deep with black folks either

There are some Ecuadorians living around blacks in The Bronx and Bushwick (although they probably live on the less black side North of Myrtle Ave) but I would say the vast majority live in the not black parts of Queens. And yeah, Colombians are even less likely to live with blacks.

Mexicans live both in neighborhoods with few blacks and in neighborhoods with a lot of blacks. PRs/DRs are usually the buffer, though. Except with Flatbush where Mexicans seem to be the dominant Hispanic ethnicity, but then again that's a pretty diverse area at this point.

 

[Cave Savage]

Yeah the psychology of it is funny like that though with how things have changed.

Today you can film people on phone cams just about anywhere and people wouldn't think twice about it...but in the late 90s early 2000s if you walked around filming people they'd probably start a fight just off GP...it was just considered rude and threatening.

That's a good point. It would have definitely drew more attention back then

 

[Azul]

You guys have to be specific when talking about the Bronx.

You know there are areas that are overwhelmingly black (very small non black Latino population).

 

[AnotherRoute]

Yes.

nikkas used to book mad candy and soda from there and run up to Ebbets Field cuz the security guard wouldn’t follow us into the projects.

I learned the hardway about talking to chicks that lived over in Ebbets

 

[AnotherRoute]

OP need to post some Veer shyt

Front page was some serious shyt

 

[Cave Savage]

You guys have to be specific when talking about the Bronx.

You know there are areas that are overwhelmingly black (very small non black Latino population).

The last time I went to Wakefield like 10 years ago it seemed like a straight up black neighborhood, apparently there are a lot of Latinos there now

 

[Blessings]

Nostalgic af.
First lived in 64 Lincoln Rd.
Google Maps

Then 580 east 21st St.
Google Maps

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Some classic music bein played in this video. I miss these days