I grew up in the Bronx during the worst of the 70s in Co-op City and then in the Williamsbridge area off Allerton Avenue. I haven’t been back over 30 years, but it appears that area is still very quiet with nice single or multi-family row houses. I too am waiting for people to ‘discover’ the nicer parts of the Bronx.
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@novdad:
I lived in the Williamsbridge area from the late 80’s to the mid 90’s in a neighborhood you describe (I was a block off Alerton, the house we lived in was built by my grandfather right after WWII). The further south you go towards Pelham Parkway the better off you are, but Allerton ave itself is the way Gun Hill Road was in the 70’s…likewise the further east you go the better…but the neighborhood I was in went down, blight spread from Guin Hill Road, and by the time we left, you started hearing gunfire at night…plus a lot of other not nice stuff. There are still nice areas, Morris Park is still nice, the Pelham Parkway area is still very nice, but other areas kind of died in the 80’s and 90’s.