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Subject: Re: Bad parts of Manhattan? Posted on: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:24:46 EST

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:17:22 GMT, bellator wrote:

>Rita wrote in
>news:86ev21haunf9v22ojoaju2o2gm493gcipi@4ax.com:
>
>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 01:31:47 GMT, bellator wrote:
>>
>>>Rita wrote in
>>>news:qnro21d3soc47f04adp37pmrkjq2pqds7v@4ax.com:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 03:39:57 GMT, Pan
>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>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.
>>>>>
>>>>>After an experience a few years ago, I consider the area around Utica
>>>>>Av. to be potentially dangerous during daylight.
>>>>>
>>>>>>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.
>>>>>
>>>>>Definitely no way to walk to Utica Av. (Brooklyn) by chance.
>>>>>
>>>> Well, that is the whole point, isn't it? I could not say that
>>>> there are not spots in the city I might feel uncomfortable. I
>>>> can only say I've never yet in 25 years come across one. And
>>>> I travel throughout the 5 boroughs. I do feel more comfortable
>>>> overall in daytime hours than after dark in some areas because
>>>> I simply don't know them as well as others. Where there is
>>>> lively traffic on the street, I always feel comfortable. I'm
>>>> not crazy about walking after dark on deserted streets. But I
>>>> have no need to do that.
>>>>
>>>
>>>i wouldn't recommend east new york
>>
>> Funny you should mention East New York. Back in the
>> late 1980s I was a homeless shelter monitor for the
>> Coalition for the Homeless and the women's shelter
>> in East New York was one I visited frequently. The
>> part of ENY where the shelter was located in a former
>> school was pretty bleak, but I never encountered
>> any problems.
>>
>>
>
>you must be big and black

And you must be a wimp of the first order. A highly
prejudiced wimp.

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