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Originally posted by bodyhard:
Janet I still live in the Bronx tell me what areas would you like to see pictures of and will yake them for you, the Bronx looks nothing like those pictures anymore. Especially the pics of the little kids, looks more like a pic from another country to me LOL

Depends on which pictures your talking about. Thank god the Bronx has improved but we still have a lot to go. We should have seen much more improvements long ago, but the city cares more about the area around 42nd Street then the residential communities of the south Bronx.



An example is the photo with the kids jumping on the Matress with the rowhouses behind them. That is on Southern Blvd south of 167th Street. That vacant lot was paved over a few years ago, there are two tenement buildings to the right of it, one is now vacant, burned out in a fire last year. That rowhouse in the picture is still vacant even today. One of them, way over to the right just off the picture was razed and now is an empty lot. Even with the paving, things are no batter. That parking lot is just a cemetary for stripped, tourched cars.

I see changes but I want more. The south Bronx is still a ghetto and these conditions should not be tolerated in the United States.

As for burnt out shells, take a trip on the 4 train to 170th Street and walk around there. That areas has had six, 6-alarm fires in the last few months. 3 in the last month alone. All suspect fires.

As Bronxites we need to fight for change.

John,

What corner did you live on?

Michael

BXONE tue there are still places that look horrible, I just wanted to share that alot of areas in the Bronx look extrememly good. With beautiful houses that range from $400,000.00 and up. But that is North Bronx my father still live in the Mitchell projects on a 135th strret by the 40th precinct right off of 138th st Willis ave smack in the SouthBronx and that area although it looks better than it has in years is a horrible place to live in.

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Originally posted by bodyhard:
BXONE tue there are still places that look horrible, I just wanted to share that alot of areas in the Bronx look extrememly good. With beautiful houses that range from $400,000.00 and up. But that is North Bronx my father still live in the Mitchell projects on a 135th strret by the 40th precinct right off of 138th st Willis ave smack in the SouthBronx and that area although it looks better than it has in years is a horrible place to live in.

Yeah there are a lot of nice areas in the Bronx. City Island has great food. Riverdale has beutiful houses. Country Club is a very quiet safe community. Price isn't important, I have seen some ****ty homes across the street from housing projects that cost a fortune. Thats NY real estate for you.

Also please get your father out of Mitchell Projects and into a senior building outside the projects. Mitchell is notorious for violence and that little triangle they form with Paterson and Mott Haven houses is as bad as it gets.

He probobly knows everyone in the building so no one would dare **** with him. Still I wouldn't want my father getting robbed in the elevator by someone from outside the building. There are some close by senior buildings that offer independent living at a good price. I think the difference is you pay for electricity.

BXONE LOL my father has been living in the mitchel projects for 41 years, there is not a soul that doesn't know him, old schhol , new school, all over the 5 boroughs of NY. He is 76 years old and still hangs out by the Paterson Project in a bodega playing dominos and card with some serious people that I doubt anyone would want to get involved with if you know what I mean. Also I am VERY well known in the Bronx as well, ya feel me? But thanks for the advice anyway where are you from anyway?

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Originally posted by mtbny7:
John,

What corner did you live on?

Michael

Michael,
I grew up on 164th Street between 3rd Ave & Washington Ave. Hung around on Cauldwell Ave around 156th St in 1952-53. PS, I did a sattelite flyover via "Google Earth" and found out that all of the buildings are gone today -- nothing left but empty lots.

I've grown up in the Bronx and that's what it looked like in the 60's and 70's. You should see it now. Those areas photographed now look like a little bit of Long Island, with two and three family homes, small front yards and lots of arts and culture. I'm glad I stayed and raised my children here. I am one of those making a difference. The Boogey Down Bronx has many artists, writers, performances, cultural events, arts-in-the-parks, many of which I am a part of.
Let's hear a Bronx Cheer!

Hooray for you Lucy!

I am new to the Bx (less than two years) and I love it; best place I ever lived in AND (by far) the nicest apt I ever had!

-Michael

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Originally posted by lucysart:
I've grown up in the Bronx and that's what it looked like in the 60's and 70's. You should see it now. Those areas photographed now look like a little bit of Long Island, with two and three family homes, small front yards and lots of arts and culture. I'm glad I stayed and raised my children here. I am one of those making a difference. The Boogey Down Bronx has many artists, writers, performances, cultural events, arts-in-the-parks, many of which I am a part of.
Let's hear a Bronx Cheer!

60's and 70's? Um a lot of these were taken in the 80's and 90's. Some as recent as the 2000's (recently did a post on the
Bronx 05 if you need a refresher). No part of the Bronx looks suberban. I don't remember any part of the Bronx having single family homes for miles. The Bronx is mostly tenements with housing projects and a few room for rent houses here and there. The new stuff is high density low income apartment buildings and multifamily rowhouses.

Last time I checked homes in the suberbs didn't have bars on the windows and 7 foot fences surrounding the property.

Bronx like the suberbs no way.

As for many artist, I haven't seen many. Mabey a few in the Clocktower of Port Morris but thats it.

Most of the Bronx is an urban, high density low income community. There are some outskirt areas that are less dense with a higher average income, like Riverdale, but suberban, wouldn't ever say that.

In reguards to the South Bronx, it's slightly improved when it comes to city services. Buses, trains and maintaince is better then it was. Potholes and roads are touched up a bit more frequently. Buildings are being renovated for low income housing. Still many of the old problems remain. The poverty, the crime, the social problems that seem to never go away. These problems shouln't be ignored and something needs to be done.

ok,first i am not from the bx ,i am from bulgaria(city sofia-capital) but my interest in the bronx is big.dont understand me wrong but most of the people here think that south bronx is awful place,miserable full with black people,drugs, crime and violence cause all the films we watched for your hood are exactly like that(no disrespect).ok!Are there still gangs,is it still like that ?

Unfortunately the South Bronx continues to have its share of problems..mostly poverty, drugs and gang warfare. It has improved since the 70's and 80's. It is slowly taking a turn for the better, but has a long hard road to go!

aha..understand..see what i found
http://www.american-pictures.com/roots/chapter-1.htm
very interesting

That is so way-back-in-the-day. I have brought many visitors from Europe and from outside the USA on tours of the Bronx and they are amazed at the beauty, arts and culture to be found here. It is very different from what they had been led to believe. Every one of them has returned for further visits, to spend time sharing their talents, living in the Bronx while in New York, taking in the sites and sounds and even deciding to make their home here. They are photographers, musicians, dancers, theater people, composers, writers. As for artists here, we live in all parts of the Bronx, creating music, professional singers, dancers, of which my own brother is world renowned, poets, writers, television producers and so on. Port Morris is newly created, where the most recent artists have come to live, deciding to make the Bronx their home. World renowned artists of the Bronx to name a few: Bobby Darin, Gary Marshall, Penny Marshall, Regis Philbin, Tito Puente, Sonia Manzano (Sesame Street's Maria) who is a personal friend and went to school with my brother, Robert Klein, Rita Moreno, Red Buttons, Esai Morales,(another friend), Hal Linden, Yomo Toro, Guy Williams, Marvin Scott, Dave Valentin, Stanley Kubrik, Paul "Ace" Freeley, E.L. Doctorow, Danny Aiello, The Chantells, Valerie Sipmson, Shelley Morrison, Willie Colon, John Patrick Shanley, Jennifer Lopez.......and many more. None of them lived in Port Morris; many lived in the South Bronx, some in Little Italy. We have theaters, an opera company, the Bronx Chamber Ensemble, Wave Hill, Orchard Beach, City Island, New York Botanical Gardens, Yankee Stadium, New York Zoological Society, Van Corlandt Park and Museum, Bronx Museum of Art, En Foco Photography, Living and Learning By the Arts, Focal Point Gallery, Hostos Art Gallery, Judaica Museum, Lehman College Art Gallery, Longwood Art Gallery, Studio Arts Gallery, Starving Artist Art Gallery, The Point, Bartow-Pell Museum, Poe Cottage and Poe Park, Martitime Industry Museum,
Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Bronx Arts Ensemble, Bronx Opera Company, Bronx Symphony Orchestra, Center Stage Community Playhouse
City Island Theater Group, Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, Lovinger Theatre, Pepatián, Pregones Theater, Highbridge Voices
http://www.highbridgevoices.org (Check out these awesome kids), Lovinger Theatre; I could go on and on and on. Google these amazing spots in the Bronx and you'll be floored by the culture, talent and arts that exists throughout the borough. Come and take a tour and feast your eyes, brain and soul on the beauty of the Bronx.

There have always been decent hard working law abiding people in the South Bronx. While growing up in the North East Bronx I never even knew there was a South Bronx.
I eventually worked there from 1973 until 1981. Yes there was a lot of crime and many criminals that preyed on the good folks.

But each day I saw thousands of people going off to work and kids going off to school. No one heard about those folks. You never do. You only hear about the bad. I enjoyed those years and wouldn't trade them for anything.

now i understand...probably hollywood is guilty for the bad glory of the hood..with all these cultural events and fascinating people i am sure that it`s quite interesting and i am happy that you feel good..regards from sofia

Some moro photos

The Bronx of the 1950's and 60's was a wonderful place to live and grow up. Great memories!

Bronxboy, where were these photos taken??

Still blows my mind when the locals say that Fordham Road South is the South Bronx, was talking with a cop from the Bronx, and he said that Arthur Ave is full of Albanians, very few Italians there at all, the shops are owned by Italians that live in the suburbs and they let the Albanians run the shops.
He was saying that the getto/drug scene is moving North into Bedford Park and parts of Parkchester, my area Riverdale has some problems mostly robberies and a assault or to
but still can walk the streets at night.

Mike these photos are from the University Heights section of The Bronx. Around W 183rd and University Ave/ Andrews Ave.