[steveBK123]

As a visitor to many Western Europe / rich Asia cities, this is a fair point. Being in the business district / rich residential / fancy shopping districts, you'd be hard pressed in most of those cities to actually walk into a "bad part of town".

In NYC and a lot of US cities, things can vary from block to block. You could live in Manhattan in a $3M apartment and the nearest grocery is the same one that NYCHA residents use. I'm not saying being poor makes you do crime, but if you are someone who is in a gang and doing crime, you are more likely to live in NYCHA than in the $3M apartment.

It's pretty normal in neighborhoods like UWS, Chelsea, LES/East Village, North Brooklyn to have block to block variance like this.

My subway stop has had 2 drug/gang related murders in the last 2 years, and it's also the first stop into Brooklyn from Manhattan. You'd not expect that.

So yeah, I think we also hide the problem less in our cities than Europe.

[InCityDreams]

>You'd not expect that (2 drug/gang related murders in the last 2 years, and it's also the first stop into Brooklyn from Manhattan.)

Is that a lot, or not a lot, to expect [EU perspective. I'd....expect....fewer than 2 in 2?

[steveBK123]

It's a lot because I mean literally at the subway station.

There are 472 subway stations in NYC, and generally less than 400 murders city-wide per year.

Generally murders happen a lot of places other than just subway stations, so having a murder at my subway station 2 years in a row is.. surprising.