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News: Another transgender attack in same area of New York City
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Another transgender attack in same area of New York City
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Another bias attack occurred just a few blocks away and a few weeks ago in Bushwick.
"There was a group of boys that starting making comments like *expletive*, tranny, gay, all of these derogatory terms," the victim said.
Eyewitness News agreed to hide the 22-year-old shooting victim's identity, because he fears the three men who police arrested and charged.
"Two years ago, I got jumped. Four months ago, I got stabbed. Two months later, I got shot," the victim said. "I identify myself in any way possible. Today, I can be a guy. Tomorrow, I can be a girl."
The rash of violence has the LGBT community pushing for peace with a plea for tolerance.
"Every attack, every murder, the whole purpose is to keep us silent, to keep us from transitioning, and they're very effective," said Brooke Cerda, a transgendered woman.
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More: http://7online.com/news/transgender-...shwick/349516/
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Bushwick/East Williamsburg (as shady real estate agents like to put it) has always been the pits. It's gentrified, but clearly not enough.  until they do, though, LGBT just shouldn't move there. The place is filled with muggers/shooters/drug-dealers, etc.
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Bushwick is a horrible place to be. It's so shady and not safe at all
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Smh, I was interested in an apartment in Bushwick too. Thank God that it didn't work out.
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
Bushwick/East Williamsburg (as shady real estate agents like to put it) has always been the pits. It's gentrified, but clearly not enough. until they do, though, LGBT just shouldn't move there. The place is filled with muggers/shooters/drug-dealers, etc. |
It's still not gentrified.  It's improved because poor, hard working immigrants have moved in and now poor young people from other states and young professionals who want cheaper rent.
Many LGBT youth have to move to bad areas because they have no money and no family! I know many move to Flatbush and East NY too because it's cheap. 
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Originally posted by Thats4SUREzinger
Smh, I was interested in an apartment in Bushwick too. Thank God that it didn't work out.
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Queens > Brooklyn when it comes to price and safety (minus a few places).
Brooklyn is overpriced thanks to the hipsters, and dangerous thanks to the wannabe gangsters
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Originally posted by Priyanka Chopra
It's still not gentrified. It's improved because poor, hard working immigrants have moved in and now poor young people from other states and young professionals who want cheaper rent.
Many LGBT youth have to move to bad areas because they have no money. I know many move to Flatbush and East NY too. |
ew ew ew ew ew
and if you're poor, just get a roommate splitting a one bedroom between 3 people in Manhattan will probably just run you $800 a month, but you save on travel (no need for subway everyday), food, time, etc. or move to Queens, which is way better than Brooklyn
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It's not that easy to just get roommate swhen you're LGBT with no friends, no family, no connections and no money.
There are good parts of Brooklyn, but they're too expensive for average people. I know people moving to Queens now because the costs are so high, especially when they start raising a family.
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I live in Bushwick and it's not always the pits
It depends what part. If you live near BedStuy then yeah, but if you live towards the Ridgewood area then it's not really the pits at all. This neighborhood changed a lot the last few years.
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
ew ew ew ew ew
and if you're poor, just get a roommate splitting a one bedroom between 3 people in Manhattan will probably just run you $800 a month, but you save on travel (no need for subway everyday), food, time, etc. or move to Queens, which is way better than Brooklyn |
Since when is food in Manhattan cheaper than BK? Also, unless you work right next to your apartment, you will be paying for public transit daily (either bus or subway).
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Originally posted by Staunch_Character
Since when is food in Manhattan cheaper than BK? Also, unless you work right next to your apartment, you will be paying for public transit daily (either bus or subway).
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I know hardly anyone who pays for public transit everyday. They pay by the month for unlimited rides.
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Originally posted by Adonis
I know hardly anyone who pays for public transit everyday. They pay by the month for unlimited rides.
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Well obviously but it still works out to over $3.50 per day if you divide the cost of a monthly metro card ($112) by 30/31 days. TikiMiss stated that you would save money on travel by living in Manhattan over Brooklyn. I was just pointing out that you still incur the same daily travel cost unless you work within walking distance from where you live.
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Originally posted by Staunch_Character
Since when is food in Manhattan cheaper than BK? Also, unless you work right next to your apartment, you will be paying for public transit daily (either bus or subway).
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um maybe if you hit Per Se or Masa every night, but eating in Chinatown, Fast Food (which is everywhere), St. Marks Place, etc are all way cheaper than the mostly generic/hipster-oriented BK restaurants 
Also, public transit doesn't have to just be subway. There's also biking + taxis (which from upper east side to penn station is only $7-8, and if you split it more than 2 ways, is pretty cheap).
Either way, the time cost of 2 hours of travel via subway from Brooklyn or Queens DAILY could be too much.
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
um maybe if you hit Per Se or Masa every night, but eating in Chinatown, Fast Food (which is everywhere), St. Marks Place, etc are all way cheaper than the mostly generic/hipster-oriented BK restaurants |
Why would you be eating out every day?
Don't you know how to cook?
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
ew ew ew ew ew
and if you're poor, just get a roommate splitting a one bedroom between 3 people in Manhattan will probably just run you $800 a month, but you save on travel (no need for subway everyday), food, time, etc. or move to Queens, which is way better than Brooklyn |
You can't be serious, food is way more expensive there
Unless you live in walking distance to where you are going, then you save.
Thank god my family already lives in NYC, I don't have to worry about sharing no overpriced shoe box
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Originally posted by Priyanka Chopra
Why would you be eating out every day?
Don't you know how to cook? |
Yes I'm just saying that there are a lot of cheapo options, even if you are unable to cook. People just think midtown or upper east side when it comes to manhattan. There's a LOT of cheap eats that are easily cheaper than many other lower tier cities, with equal or better quality.
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Originally posted by Caesar
You can't be serious, food is way more expensive there
Unless you live in walking distance to where you are going, then you save.
Thank god my family already lives in NYC, I don't have to worry about sharing no overpriced shoe box |
Every Saturday, there is a farmer's market on East. Broadway in Chinatown you can get a week's vegetable grocery for less than $15 including papaya, melons, carrots, broccoli, potatoes and scallions.
Manhattan is overpriced, but not impossible to live in Plenty of people share rooms and apartments.
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Bushwick is a very bad area, right?
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Originally posted by BabyCantYouSee
Bushwick is a very bad area, right?
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Yep. Drug dealers, guns, and gangs galore.
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
Yep. Drug dealers, guns, and gangs galore.
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The REAACHH 
We're not talking about East NY, Coney, Flatbush and Bed Stuy here. Let's not.
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Queens is way better than BK, imo. With the exception of South Jamaica, Ozone Park, and Far Rockaway, Queens is possibly a haven. There is just way too many bad areas in BK for it to be a plausible place to live. When I lived in East NY, the only way for you not to get jumped was if you got home before 10pm. You also had to know everyone in your neighborhood because if you knew someone in a gang and someone was potentially trying to rob you, you could use the person name and they would stop. It was just too much. 
Bed Stuy is a mess too. I kind of blame all those project apartment buildings though. I'm kind of surprise Michelle Williams (The white one) has lived near that area for so long.
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