NYC is no where near as bad as the stereotypes would lead you to
believe. It has improved dramatically, especially over the last 10
years. Look at 42nd St., completely sterilized by Disney. My cousin
was married at Union Seminary in Harlem right across the street from
Columbia. We had a beautiful Saturday in the city, no one hassled us.
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Larry wrote:
> But, they're not deceiving now. The NY you describe is nothing like the
> NYC of today. The crime rate was pretty bad once. Things change, even
> Harlem is up and coming and expensive. Even Clinton has his office
> there. For at least the last decade, the crime rate has been of the
> lowest of all cities. You want lousy control of crime, try LA or Houston.
>
> Larry
>
> James N. McBride wrote:
>
>>A person just needs to know where to not go. I used to have a lot of tests
>>run at Columbia University in a chemical engineering lab that was on the
>>edge of Harlem. Cars had to be parked in a fenced area as they would be
>>stripped during the daylight hours if parked outside. We had two test
>>sponsors mugged and badly beaten when they decided to go for a walk at noon
>>hour. One of my guys was a tough old desert rat and he decided to walk to
>>the hotel one day. A girl about 15 years old walked up and grabbed him by
>>the balls. That old boy was scared half to death. There is plenty of crime
>>in NYC. Those per-capita numbers can be deceiving. /jmac
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
>>Behalf Of Larry
>>Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 3:07 AM
>>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [OM] Re: Personal Robbery Survey, was Re: Bags
>>
>>
>>
>>Yeah, NYC has such a horrible crime rate...
>>
>>
>>
>>Wrong. It has close to the lowest in the world out of big cities.
>>
>>Larry
>>
>>
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