On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:54:45 GMT, Rita wrote:
>I can't think of any area of New York City where I would feel
>unsafe going about some legitimate business during daytime hours.
>There may well be pockets here and there I don't know about, but
>as you say, the tourist is not somehow going to walk into them
>by chance.
When I lived in Manhattan, back in the late sixties, I used to tutor
some kids in the South Bronx. They lived in a public housing project,
and their neighborhood was definitely a bad area. I used to go there
after work once a week and return home after dark in the winter. (I
rode the 3rd Ave El for part of the way.) I never felt unsafe for a
minute. There were some riots in New York around that time, and I
remember once when I returning home on the Broadway Express, it
suddenly occurred to me that I was travelling underground beneath a
riot. No one on the train seemed to have a thought about safety.
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Barbara Vaughan
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