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I'm white and used to live in the Bronx around Valentine Ave. I don't think anybody I knew felt like we lived in a segregated neighborhood. Also, plenty of peop

I'm white and used to live in the Bronx around Valentine Ave. I don't think anybody I knew felt like we lived in a segregated neighborhood. Also, plenty of people who do retail or food service work in NYC make good money, and plenty make enough to live a good life in the outer burroughs. NYC is accommodating of those that don't. I certainly never spoke to anybody who felt like we were defacto enslaved. Just one person's experience...

Alex3917 10y ago
> I'm white and used to live in the Bronx around Valentine Ave. That's funny, I'm also white and currently live a few blocks from there. The point though is that you'd need a ton of hispanic people from the Bronx to move to SoHo in order to make it reflect the overall demographics of the city. > I certainly never spoke to anybody who felt like we were defacto enslaved. I mean there are tens of thousands of homeless people in NYC, many of whom have jobs. Many folks forced to live in apartments with stachybotrys, the subways are littered with folks whose skin is literally rotting off from a combination of never showering and heroin-related infections, etc.
- thesmallestcat 10y ago
  Yea, you make quite a leap from ethnic neighborhoods to "kept in special ghettoes," but apparently only perfect geographic-racial balance disproves the existence of these ghettos. Also you equate mental illness and homelessness with slavery. I want some of what you're smoking! But seriously, if you want a white dude pumping your gas, there is Vermont as you noted, and it isn't very far from you!
  - Alex3917 10y ago
    > you make quite a leap from ethnic neighborhoods to "kept in special ghettoes" http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/100-bronx-gang-members-busted-largest-takedown-nyc-history-article-1.2615933 http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/100-bronx-gang... 87 people got arrested in a single bust about 12 blocks from where I live, for a combination of selling crack and murder. They're all from the same housing projects. Yet despite being right around the corner, my neighborhood has one of the lowest violent crime rates in NYC. If that's not an example of ghettoization, I don't know what is.

Alex3917 10y ago

> I'm white and used to live in the Bronx around Valentine Ave. That's funny, I'm also white and currently live a few blocks from there. The point though is that you'd need a ton of hispanic people from the Bronx to move to SoHo in order to make it reflect the overall demographics of the city. > I certainly never spoke to anybody who felt like we were defacto enslaved. I mean there are tens of thousands of homeless people in NYC, many of whom have jobs. Many folks forced to live in apartments with stachybotrys, the subways are littered with folks whose skin is literally rotting off from a combination of never showering and heroin-related infections, etc.

thesmallestcat 10y ago
Yea, you make quite a leap from ethnic neighborhoods to "kept in special ghettoes," but apparently only perfect geographic-racial balance disproves the existence of these ghettos. Also you equate mental illness and homelessness with slavery. I want some of what you're smoking! But seriously, if you want a white dude pumping your gas, there is Vermont as you noted, and it isn't very far from you!
- Alex3917 10y ago
  > you make quite a leap from ethnic neighborhoods to "kept in special ghettoes" http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/100-bronx-gang-members-busted-largest-takedown-nyc-history-article-1.2615933 http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/100-bronx-gang... 87 people got arrested in a single bust about 12 blocks from where I live, for a combination of selling crack and murder. They're all from the same housing projects. Yet despite being right around the corner, my neighborhood has one of the lowest violent crime rates in NYC. If that's not an example of ghettoization, I don't know what is.