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Re: Ask about New York thread!

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hell's kitchen is pretty much fully gentrified and a lot safer than it's portrayed to be in the show, right? i mean i'm not from new york but i've taken trips there multiple times and my most recent trip was actually for school and involved a guide who was living there, and he said hell's kitchen was a scary place to bee in the 80s/90s but that new york had basically made an effort to clean it up. like, in the old days you'd see drug addicts all over the sidewalks and shit but now the last time i was there i saw some fairly snazzy stores/restaurants and watching daredevil had me like "???? this show takes place in 2015 what the hell is all this gang activity"

i mean i guess you could handwave that with "well hell's kitchen was fucking destroyed in the battle of new york so they had to p much start from scratch, all the rich ppl moved away, and the neighborhood reverted" but yeah i was....incredibly confused about that, hah.

i'd like to add that generally i'm a major opponent of gentrification so i don't think irl hell's kitchen being safer is necessarily good, imo, because i'm sure all that crime and poverty was simply pushed elsewhere.