SprayOClockNews (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

liked!

matthockleeyvictoria (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@ifckdjfkswife GOOD

JayTellerMundo (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@dduras I agree and thanks for getting more in depth with it (YouTube comments can only let you write so much, nevermind the 101 of things). The issue is though that now a lot of the places in which the poor (both whites and non-whites [regardless of what some people on these comments believe which is that whites did not feel this wrath]) live are "little big cities" with already bad economies where they are 'out of mind, out of sight', so they may find no solution to their local economy. Sad.

SheilaghLesarge (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This is civilization

ConfortinDEADHORSE (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

First it was heroin. Then crack.

DawnOfDestructiion (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Heard harlem is spookland

ifckdjfkswife (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Are any of us really surprised? Try finding a neighborhood that looks like that that is predominately white, oh wait you wont.

dduras (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@JayTellerMundo We are in the process of repeating this mess again. The reason these buildings ended up this way was a direct result of runaway inflation combined with rent control. Landlords were forced to hand their keys back to the city, because they couldnt afford the pay basic necesities like heat and water. The bad landlords actually burned their buildings down and tried to collect on insurance...This cycle is comeing back and dont think that something is different today

JayTellerMundo (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

... crazy how it changes though, because now, the trend for the upper middle class is to live within the city since it's more convenient for work, is more vibrant than suburbs, and also has historical value to the properties (nevermind that the city is less in economic shambles unlike decades before), which forces other city residents to live in poor outskirt cities with bad economies. This is why you no longer really see cities in the Northeast look like this unless they're small cities.

JayTellerMundo (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

@azra113 the reason why the buildings and neighborhoods were like that (not just in NY, but also many northeast cities) had a lot to do with the economy and real estate trend, which was for middle class (predominantly white) families to move to the suburbs and leave the city, and with the economy in wreck, do it by any means necessary, which one of the ways was to do an insurance job on the buildings, i.e. burn it down. Thus, you have vacant lots and dead buildings. This occured 15-20 years.