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If you actually read the article you'll see it has nothing to do with crime. Crime remains at historically low levels: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statisti...

It has everything to do with expensive housing. NYC is becoming wealthier and whiter, with low income and minority residents forced to move out over housing costs.

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New York has always had expensive housing. It's not as if that became a problem yesterday. On the other hand, crime varies considerably from decade to decade. I'm getting a good chuckle watching people bend over backwards to downplay the issue of crime in NYC. It often feels like crime is to liberals what climate change is to conservatives, a big problem made worse by their policies that's better off ignored.

No it has not always had expensive housing. How do you think artists used to live in Greenwich village?

The only people who live in fear of crime in cities are people who hear about it in headlines from afar. If you live there and don't have a reason to want to live in fear, you don't.

That's a bit circular isn't? Of course the people that still live somewhere don't worry about the crime as much, that's part of the reason that they're still there. The folks for whom it's a big deal, tend to leave.

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