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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Jan 23 23:00:44 2008, in response to Re: G Train to be cut back to Court Square permanently, posted by Wado MP73 on Wed Jan 23 18:47:08 2008. Lots of branches here haha.I think your question was comparing Bushwick and Ridgewood? Well, Ridgewood has held it's own right through the 70's and 80's. It never "fell" like Bushwick did. You never had abandoned buildings, burnouts, or anything like that through the 70's and 80's like Bushwick did. Ridgewood's housing stock remained at about 99% occupancy, unlike Bushwick which lost entire city blocks. And while it never got bad in Ridgewood with all that, it never had to "recover" from anything. And while RIdgewood is probably in better shape than it was 10 or 15 years ago, it didn't have to "rise from the ashes like Bushwick is doing now. Bushwick had to come back from a complete hell, and there's lots of new construction and refurbishment there now. And in addition to lots of public first time homebuyer incentives, and housing like that, there's also a lot of private investment in housing now too in the Bushwick area, which you really didn't see before 4 or 5 years ago. Bushwick has come a long way, and millions and millions of dollars are now being pumped into Bushwick's housing stock whereas just 10 or 20 years ago no one was spending a dime there. The policies of the 60's and 70's there were a recipe for disaster, and thankfully it has finally come back from that. |
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