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Janice
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Re: Another Ghetto question.
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Re: Another Ghetto question.
Posted by JenandMikey
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the borderline east new york brooklyn and ozone park queens....by cityline for those of u that know the area
I guess it is true that everyone has different ideas of what ghetto-neighborhoods are, Ozone park queens does not fit into that category for me, but again i think I have seen the worst of the worst.
i didnt live in the heart of ozone park, not the area close to howard beach at all...i lived about two blocks from east new york brooklyn...close to cityline? do u know of it?
eta : we had to sign petitions against the prostitutes and drug dealers and robberies of the candy stores on atlantic ave. were constant which would be right around the corner from me...not pleasant
I know it very well. My parents live right across the street from PS 64. I dont consider that part at all ghetto. All the houses are very well cared for, gardens and everyone is very nice. They have lived there for about 5 years. Before there we lived on 107 ave. The house was my mother's childhood house and the house I grew up in. Another area I dont consider ghetto.
Maybe on the Atlantic Ave part going towards City line may be a little ghetto but the parts I am referring too definately not.
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JenandMikey
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Re: Another Ghetto question.
Posted by HarleyGirlFLA
Posted by JenandMikey
Posted by emilain
Posted by JenandMikey
the borderline east new york brooklyn and ozone park queens....by cityline for those of u that know the area
I guess it is true that everyone has different ideas of what ghetto-neighborhoods are, Ozone park queens does not fit into that category for me, but again i think I have seen the worst of the worst.
i didnt live in the heart of ozone park, not the area close to howard beach at all...i lived about two blocks from east new york brooklyn...close to cityline? do u know of it?
eta : we had to sign petitions against the prostitutes and drug dealers and robberies of the candy stores on atlantic ave. were constant which would be right around the corner from me...not pleasant
Maybe on the Atlantic Ave part going towards City line may be a little ghetto but the parts I am referring too definately not.
yup thats exactly where i lived for 20 yrs and where my parents still live....when we first moved there 20 yrs ago it was nothing like that and now it is soooooooooo different and to us it is very much a ghetto-like neighborhood
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GioiaMia
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Re: Another Ghetto question.
Posted by JenandMikey
Posted by HarleyGirlFLA
Posted by JenandMikey
Posted by emilain
Posted by JenandMikey
the borderline east new york brooklyn and ozone park queens....by cityline for those of u that know the area
I guess it is true that everyone has different ideas of what ghetto-neighborhoods are, Ozone park queens does not fit into that category for me, but again i think I have seen the worst of the worst.
i didnt live in the heart of ozone park, not the area close to howard beach at all...i lived about two blocks from east new york brooklyn...close to cityline? do u know of it?
eta : we had to sign petitions against the prostitutes and drug dealers and robberies of the candy stores on atlantic ave. were constant which would be right around the corner from me...not pleasant
Maybe on the Atlantic Ave part going towards City line may be a little ghetto but the parts I am referring too definately not.
yup thats exactly where i lived for 20 yrs and where my parents still live....when we first moved there 20 yrs ago it was nothing like that and now it is soooooooooo different and to us it is very much a ghetto-like neighborhood
my parents still insist on doing all their shopping there - it drives me nuts!
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Reese32
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Re: Another Ghetto question.
Posted by nrthshgrl
Ghetto to me means the old, burned out buildings in the Bronx, drug dealers & squatters.
In the colloquial (sp?) sense, "ghetto" means the same thing to me. A not great neighborhood, where I wouldn't want to be caught alone.
I know the definition, where it's an ethnic group gathered in one place (over-simplified definition, I know), and when it's used historically, I always associate it with the "Warsaw Ghetto", the Polish Jews who were confined after the Germans invaded Poland during WWII. Not to sound glib, but the other thing I associate it with is Carrie from SATC commenting on the fact that she was wearing her "ghetto gold." And I completely understood her context, even though it isn't a term I would use.
Anyway, I can see why people may find it offensive, but it doesn't particularly offend me.
I think I rambled a bit. Sorry.
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JenandMikey
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Re: Another Ghetto question.
Posted by Tilde
my parents still insist on doing all their shopping there - it drives me nuts!
hahahaha i know but hey it is a great place to shop for bargains
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GioiaMia
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Re: Another Ghetto question.
Posted by JenandMikey
Posted by Tilde
my parents still insist on doing all their shopping there - it drives me nuts!
hahahaha i know but hey it is a great place to shop for bargains
definitely!
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Holly
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Re: Another Ghetto question.
I grew up faaar from any ghetto areas, but then I went to college in RHode Island..my dorm was around Brown University, on the East Side of providence...nicee place...kind of expensive area...
But our first apartment was in what we considered a ghetto in South Providence....my license plates were stolen off of my car that was in my gated driveway, always people hanging out on the porches, lots of poverty, and lots of crime...no wonder rent was only 425 for a 2 bedroom apartment!
Man, we went in there blind
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Gertyrae
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Re: Another Ghetto question.
I grew up in Uniondale and sorry, but it was ghetto and on LI.
Lot's of drugs, gangs and shootings. To me that's ghetto...we had police patrolling the high school due to knifings in the school....Very Ghetto...
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IrishTracy
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Re: Another Ghetto question.
I grew up in Queens & though it wasn't ghetto when we were little. It turned ghetto. When neighbors are doing,selling drugs outside there houses. While of course drinking their 40's. Let's see the robberies, muggings the fact that the house up the block had a molotov cocktail thrown on their lawn. Gangs, shootings shall I go on?? And this is on the border of Nassau.
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Re: Another Ghetto question.
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I grew up in Queens & though it wasn't ghetto when we were little. It turned ghetto. When neighbors are doing,selling drugs outside there houses. While of course drinking their 40's. Let's see the robberies, muggings the fact that the house up the block had a molotov cocktail thrown on their lawn. Gangs, shootings shall I go on?? And this is on the border of Nassau.
same Queens neighborhood. Molotov cocktail aka flaming bottle filled with gas was thrown at my neighbors house from a moving car nearly missing mine. (and of course this was a night my soon to be DH was sleeping on my couch under the living room window!) Why? Well the NYPD told us that they had been watching the kid next door (16) and he was a known drug dealer. He had thoroughly ****** off the big wigs as he was just a little pee on dealer. And this is how they deal with it on the street. There were other incidents. Beer bottles and drug paraphenalia thrown in our yard. Pissing in the street. guns, enough about the neighbors...
My car was also stolen not once, but twice from in front of my house. (same car!) Stolen cars were an every night occurrence in the summer. I was like the neighborhood watch, I usually slept lightly and caught many in action. Except my own!
Tracy, what about he racial riots in High School?
I would take the LIRR into Nassau County because there was no way I walking home at night from our LIRR station. Too many of my neighbors had been mugged. My grammar school Principal was killed in his home just a few years ago.
I'd have to check the stats now, but I know for years the 105th precinct stated it was the busiest in Queens, unfortunately with the most murders as well. Its also the largest though.
So I don't believe that a ghetto needs to consist of tenements and projects. The same stuff happens on what would seem like a quiet middle class street with homes.
My father grew up and my grandmother continued to live for many years in the University Heights/Fordham section of the Bronx, maybe that is what more people picture as "ghetto" but I wouldn't live there and I wouldn't live where I grew up either.
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NS1976
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Re: Another Ghetto question.
I agree with what some others have said. Ghetto doesnt necessarily have to fall into one certain category..surrounding buildings ya know?
My dad, also a detective for the NYPD for over 20 years, worked in Harlem. Now back then, that was TRUE ghetto. In every sense of the word!
I live in Long Island CIty Queens. Between Ravenswood projects and Queensbridge projects. Have been surrounded by prostitues, drug dealers, muggings, we even witnessed a murder right on our corner. Once night time comes, its not really safe to walk around. The neighborhood is changing for the better slowly but surely but not enough to make me truly feel safe raising my daughter here. I consider myself to have grown up in the ghetto.
Also, I so do not agree with " there are no ghetto neighborhoods on LI"...they may not be like the city but they sure do exist. The boroughs arent the only place where "bad" things happen.
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