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Hold your horses everyone!! I'm not being a "Debbie downer" here. I know some of you (especially people new to NYC) find it inconceivable to put depressing and NYC in the same category, same sentence. However, fact of the matter is that same areas of NYC are just down right depressing. Since its a gloomy day, I decided its a good topic to speak on some lame, uninteresting, boring, miserable parts of NYC.
I feel Wakefield area in the Bronx (especially 241st) wins "Most Miserable NYC" award. Its far away from Manhattan or anything cool for that matter and there's NO, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH redeeming value for being far away from Manhattan (or Brooklyn and Queens for that matter). There's no good eateries, parks, and forget about having any sense of art here. There's not even a sense of community. However, its a ghetto wonderland. Especially during the spring and summer. Prostitutes can be seen as early as 6am while kids are on their way to school, crack heads can be seen walking up and down the strip of 241st White Plains road OR in your apartment building lobby, hallway or stair case doing what they do best. The moment you step out the train station on 241st, you're hounded by low life scum trying to get you taxi service, whom are NOT even licensed and have the audacity to charge you as much as a regular cabbie or more!! Don't be surprised if they speak to a prostitute on the way.
You can also witness a bunch of hood rats and infidels who don't even live in your building loiter in front or i ittill the break of dawn. Fights, gun shots, everything a true "hood" is made out of defines that cesspool. It also borders the crap side of Mount Vernon so that's additional misery. Everyone is cold, unfriendly, and just plain rude.
There's just truly nothing to do in Wakefield at all unless you want to live out in a ghetto, cesspool, wonderland. Sometimes I wish the Cloverfield monster would eradicate that area and hopefully decent people can come back and start over.
I recall Bed-Stuy (Halsey st) from a few years ago being there in the dead of winter later at night. it was very run down, And the dirty ice and snow on the ground made it look worse with homeless camped out under the subway. Very sad. Much of that area is supposedly gentrified a lot in the last few years.
Parkchester I recall being there and it was run down as well. Burned out buildings, roving gangs etc. I never thought i would get through the subway ride unscathed. Train had all sorts of characters, 2 drinking beer right out in the open.
Most cities have run-down, high crime areas that become wastelands, Without getting political here.
People who are against gentrification would consider your description of Wakefield to be what they want all of New York City to resemble. Stores, eateries, nightlife are all "bad" things while prostitutes, drugs and crime add character and charm. You could look at it that way.
anywhere that is poor and ghetto is depressing
if you let it get to you. you have to do the best
you can with what you have.
all these run down neighborhoods? please.
where do you begin? east new york, harlem,
brownsville, flatbush, jamaica.
you know what it is.
All those areas besides Brownsville either have improved are become gentrified. I don't like Flatbush but even Flatbush has much more character than Wakefield. At least Prospect Park (amazing park) is not too far away. Back to Brownsville, I lived there as a child and YES its absolutely miserable. On par or maybe whose than Wakefield.
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Sounds like someone got violated in Wakefield.
As a "White boy" in Wakefield, you bet.
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I recall Bed-Stuy (Halsey st) from a few years ago being there in the dead of winter later at night. it was very run down, And the dirty ice and snow on the ground made it look worse with homeless camped out under the subway. Very sad. Much of that area is supposedly gentrified a lot in the last few years.
Parkchester I recall being there and it was run down as well. Burned out buildings, roving gangs etc. I never thought i would get through the subway ride unscathed. Train had all sorts of characters, 2 drinking beer right out in the open.
Most cities have run-down, high crime areas that become wastelands, Without getting political here.
Parkchester is much different now. Lots of Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshi's. Lots of South East Asian stores as well. Still some parts are sketchy but its come a very long way.
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People who are against gentrification would consider your description of Wakefield to be what they want all of New York City to resemble. Stores, eateries, nightlife are all "bad" things while prostitutes, drugs and crime add character and charm. You could look at it that way.
Hahaha!! I could . People who say things like that should relocate to Detroit or St. Louis.
IMO, to be truly as depressing as possible, a place needs all of the following:
-poverty
-crime
-low density
-no social cohesion
-ugly architecture
-not much greenery (project grounds don't count)
Parts of Bushwick fit the bill...I'm not too familiar with really bad areas.
You mean most of Bushwick.
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. People who say things like that should relocate to Detroit or St. Louis.
