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Re: Crime in Roosevelt and Port Jeff (Re: Brentwood Long Island Shootings)

Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jul 21 08:09:50 2009, in response to Re: Crime in Roosevelt and Port Jeff (Re: Brentwood Long Island Shootings), posted by Easy on Mon Jul 20 23:49:04 2009.

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Most of Long Island looked average to me. Nothing great and nothing bad. But I've only stayed in Huntington, Babylon, and Commack.

Long Island is Spotty, you have an extremely nice neighborhood next to a working class neighborhood, next to a really crappy neighborhood.

I don't know where you were in "Huntington", so it's hard to say. Huntington is large. Huntington Harbor is a REALLY nice area, but Huntington Station is sort of crappy. Then there's straight Huntington which is "okay". Babylon is also spotty. West Babylon is "okay", sort of suburban. Babylon Village is really really nice.
The same with Commack. A really nice area, but also has a sort of working class "subururban" neighborhood next to it too.

You can't really judge Long Island by a few towns. You have some EXTREMELY rich and beautiful areas, and you drive a mile, and cross the pavement of a road and all of a sudden you are in an average or crappy neighborhood. You will even get that on Nassau's Gold Coast, and the Hamptons, both of which have some of the most affluent areas in the country. Nassau especially has some very "suburban" areas, next to some really nice, wealthy areas.

As for "bad" areas....if you want to compare to South Central, LI has some suburban slums like Roosevelt, Wyandanch, Freeport, Gordon Heights, Coram Hill, Hempstead, and others. But you cross a pavement or RR tracks, or a highway, and all of a sudden it's nice.

Then you have some "neither heaven nor hell" sort of neighborhoods like Mastic, Shirley, which are not really a "slum", but not necescarily all that great either. Sort of like "Landford" on the old Roseanne show. Brentwood would be on the lower end of that category.

Then you have solid working class, yet "suburban" looking areas where they are average, stable neighborhoods, yet are the definition of working class suburbia, such as Deer Park, West Babylon, perhaps even Levittown, Hicksville, etc.

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