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It feels about the same to me. I've lived here my whole life. One notable change is how much expectations of "safety" in the city have expanded: there are neigh
by woodruffw 3y ago
It feels about the same to me. I've lived here my whole life. One notable change is how much expectations of "safety" in the city have expanded: there are neighborhoods my family would not have gone to as a kid that are now considered trendy or even wealthy. The city's progress there has not been uniform (and in many ways continues to punish the city's neediest demographics), but that alone is a substantial factor in the overall feeling of safety.
(NYC's blessing and curse is that literally anything out of the ordinary to ever happen gets recorded. This results in paradoxical motion: the crime trendline has consistently gone down decade-over-decade, but there's more public evidence of those crimes for real-time news to report on.)
- keiferski 3y agoCompared to 30-40 years ago, sure, but where is trendy now that you wouldn't go in 2014? I can't think of anywhere that's dramatically improved in that time. The southernmost parts of The Bronx, maybe?
- woodruffw 3y agoThe transition in Gowanus has been pretty dramatic, as has LIC. Bushwick and Ridgewood (to a lesser extent) were already gentrifying by 2014, but the pace in both in the past 5 years has been dramatic. Further out/deeper in, I think I can say the same about PLG and Flatbush. (As I said, I think the feeling of safety is not very different between 2014 and 2024. What's changed is that the city's "zone of interest" wherein people expect to walk around uneventfully and with things to do has expanded significantly.)