If you mean too many white folk, they seem to stay mostly to the West of Broadway.

Lol, where?

The only parts of the Bronx with a lot of white people are either wealthier neighborhoods like Riverdale without many minorities, or neighborhoods that are in the process of white flight.

That's not a great example, the black population in the LES mostly lives in the housing projects.

I will give you though, that people of all backgrounds hang out in the LES.

When was Flatbush more diverse? My mom grew up there as it was white flighting, so it was diverse for a bit but that didn't last too long.

No, but they're viewed as a de facto racial group. And every Latino neighborhood in NYC is pan-Latino more or less anyway.

I hear that even though a lot of high schools are diverse on paper, they are still are pretty segregated. I didn't go to HS in the boroughs but my experience was like that.

Yeah but it was always like that.

And to be honest it's more complicated than that. Blacks and Latinos live together all over the Bronx, uptown Manhattan, Bushwick, parts of Queens like Jamaica. Asians and Latinos live in the same neighborhoods in much of Western/Central Queens. Whites and Asians live together in Northeast Queens.

So there are plenty of neighborhoods where at least 2 or 3 racial groups live together, but if you're looking for some sort of Sesame Street situation where a large number of whites, blacks, Latinos, and Asians all live together and interact, you won't find it.

My mom went to school in Flatbush in the 70s and it was very diverse for a short period of time, but only because the middle of white flight. I figure the reverse is happening now in certain gentrifying neighborhoods.

I know a Puerto Rican guy from Bushwick who actually prefers the white transplants over the native white New Yorkers from places like Glendale and Maspeth. He said the former are fun to hang out with while the latter he remembers being racist when he was growing up.

If it's a larger, busy bar it's pretty easy to just walk right in and use the bathroom (if you're old enough to get in at least).

I just don't see how anyone's quality of life will improve by it being moved

Penn Station is already renovated though

"Return to its former glory"

It's a train station, it just needs to be functional

I still don't understand why it needs to be moved. Moving MSG won't help Penn Station

"Mish mash of different eras"

What is wrong with that exactly?

The "rude" stereotype mainly applies to mentally ill people, gangbangers, and maybe businessmen. Generally, most people are friendly.

I help people out with directions all the time and I love doing so.

The beautiful pre war buildings are not the problem.

The low density zoning in the outskirts is, among other things

Aren't most Brownstones multi family?

You can't seriously be claiming that Bed Stuy, Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Harlem, etc. aren't urban enough. Every single brownstone neighborhood in NYC has a population density in line with European cities.

3-6 story buildings are actually better for urbanity than high rises. I don't see how an urbanist could argue that Co-op City and Rochdale village are better planned neighborhoods than the brownstone/3-6 story multi family neighborhoods.

"Multi unit affordable housing"

Not a real thing, the city will never go back to building NYCHA towers

"Cost to the city" Lol

Also, I want to point out that the densest residential neighborhoods in NYC are mainly made up of 3 to 6 story buildings. Upzoning so that luxury high rises can be built does not increase urbanity or even help the housing crisis.

Redditors are really complaining that the house wasn't torn down for an ugly glass building?

I like that all these unauthorized shops are around. There are only 3 authorized ones, and presumably they're expensive

My dad is a 54 year old white man and he has no problem going to the stores in Queens and buying weed

So far we've enjoyed the product a lot, and it has been very cheap

There's a store on Guy Brewer between 146th terrace and 147th ave. I've been there a few times and they have good stuff

Inbox me for details