CinematicHeart t1_izhrmh6 wrote on December 9, 2022 at 4:53 AM

I'm from fishtown, my mother is still down there. if you ask the old heads it's getting worse but I don't think the crime is any worse than its ever been. The only "new" big issue is the catalytic converter theft. I currently live in wissanoming but I've only been here 3 years. So not much has changed in that time.

TheFAPnetwork t1_izi0k2x wrote on December 9, 2022 at 6:27 AM

My anecdotal view of fishtown was that in the 90s it was okay. There was mostly fights and people getting jumped by groups of kids, not like we see today. The biggest story was the Sweeney kid getting killed by someone he trusted and they found his body by graffiti pier. There wasn't the violence I was familiar with in Kensington, but it had its period of a downward spiral. Then the developing took over. I like to think it started with the old hospital on berks and Frankford; anyone remember when the roof caught on fire? Anyway, since then it's slowly crept up to what it is today, it really boomed commercially

CinematicHeart t1_izj2p41 wrote on December 9, 2022 at 2:04 PM

Freddie Adams was killed in a gang fight in the 90s. Don't tell the neighborhood that it was gang related though even though that's what all the evidence says. Wayne Ellis was murdered walking home in 2002. That is still unsolved but believed to be a robbery. The poor Sweeney kid. In the 90s a black family moved in on Marlborough and they had to have a cop outside untill they were able to move because people broke in and beat them up and they were constantly harassed. My grand father lived on Oxford and when he passed on my mom was selling it, a black couple viewed it and after that the house was graffitied with swastikas. I love the neighborhood because I grew up there but it has its issues. It always has but people dont want to face it. It's easier to blame the new people or the DA even though the cops never show up when called and if they do they are belligerent. I have never had a good experience with the 26th.

CroatianSensation79 t1_izhxksy wrote on December 9, 2022 at 5:53 AM

The old heads constantly whine about Fishtown on Facebook. I’m in Port Richmond and alot of PR people cry all the time. It’s annoying lol

TheFAPnetwork t1_izi0mzl wrote on December 9, 2022 at 6:28 AM

Lol wait until Bridesburg gets moved out

CroatianSensation79 t1_izj9ncf wrote on December 9, 2022 at 2:55 PM

Like Fishtown? A good chunk of the guys I went to high school with live in Bridesburg now. They were from Fishtown, Port Richmond and Kensington.

CinematicHeart t1_izj1b1t wrote on December 9, 2022 at 1:53 PM

There's a guy once a week on the one fishtown page "remember when fishtown was safe"... There has always been random muggings and crime in fishtown. The only thing that has changed is the price of houses and it's slightly less racist than it used to be.

CroatianSensation79 t1_izj9hsm wrote on December 9, 2022 at 2:54 PM

Oh yeah I read the threads. Some of them are ridiculous. It wasn’t all that great when they were growing up. I grew up and still live in Port Richmond. I remember about 20 years ago, Fishtown was known for all of the pillheads. I went to high school with Fishtowners and alot of them whine how “great Fishtown used to be”. It’s alot nicer now than back then. My one buddy grew up there and says it’s way better now than then. He told me how he got jumped by Kensington kids who were fighting with Fishtown kids. He had nothing to do with the group they fought with and he was sitting on his step when he got jumped. They’re out there.