@novadad99:
Wow, you went to poly, and you lived in the same section of the Bronx I once lived in, the house I was talking about was 1 block north of Allerton, about midway between where allerton hit white plains road and where it hit gun hill (I used to commute on the #5 train from Pelham parkway or the #2 from white plains and Allerton). If the house had been further south, close to Pelham Parkway it is still a decent area, might have stayed.
The Bronx is starting to gentrify a bit down in the south bronx, talking to people I know who know such things, a lot of the buildings in the deep south Bronx (port morris) and along the concourse are being bought up, and the renovation is going on that ends up forcing people out. I never thought I would see Harlem gentrify, but it did, and now the south Bronx seems to be heading that way. There are already some art galleries there, some cafes and such, I suspect in another 10 years if this keeps up it will become la la land as well.
I agree with you about Poly, I got my master’s there in the mid 90’s, they had just gotten a big gift then to start renovating and such, when the Metrotech complex was built. I liked the fact that it was a local school serving a local population, and you are right, basically City College is the only engineering school like that in NYC, I also knew a lot of people I worked with who had gone there.