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Re: The South Bronx of the 1980's |
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Posted by Dyre Dan on Sat Apr 21 19:59:28 2012, in response to Re: The South Bronx of the 1980's, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Apr 21 18:28:06 2012. Yeah, the Cross Bronx did seem to be kind of a dividing line for a few years. Then the decay went passed it: Tremont Ave., 183rd St., finally up to Fordham Rd. But maybe without the Cross Bronx as a "firebreak", it would have spread north faster. As for the 3rd Ave. corridor, it was already pretty bad by the time the el was torn down. I remember riding the Bx55 when it first replaced the el, just out of curiosity. It was my first up close and personal, ground level experience of "the ghetto", or at least that's how it seemed to me. I did ride it a few times in order to see how progress was going with the demolition of the el, but once demolition was complete, I didn't ride it any more. |
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