Kids migrate towards people they identify with most it happens everywhere. My wife went to a school that taught in English in India but the social groups split mostly on preferred languages from the outset and stayed that way all the way through. Kids that spoke Marathi were a clique, Hindi were a clique, Urdu another, and English it's own. So even within the same religion, castes and family wealth cliques formed and stayed based primarily on childhood language skills.

Just look at the school, period. A lot of families in these diverse areas will not send their kids to the public schools.

I was there last Saturday and it never felt more alive , what do you mean ?

Now do the public schools.

It's a lack of development which we can mostly blame on rich white people. Blaming Hispanic people is like folks blaming Koreans in LA in the 80s and early 90s. Mega wealthy slumlords like Donald Sterling were at the root of it then and they are at the root of the problem now.

That's where I would have gone if my family didn't white flight me out of the city between the ages 6 and 16. I feel cheated.

Problem is those felonies getting downgraded and the criminal is let go to make stats look nice. Bill is worthless without enforcement.

Wut?

That's why the upper west side is SUPER boring. I lived there in the late 90s for a bit and honestly my grandpa's condo development in Florida was more fun.

Maybe he means in the cusp of gentrification, which would be accurate.

Segregation and homophily are not the same thing.

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Cool well there is more than enough video and other evidence to prove many cops literally assaulted protestors when there was no cause so your experience doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

So you think it’s okay that transplants move into a neighborhood and consciously not acknowledge their neighbors or even try to get to know anyone from the community?

The complaints about white flight were real. People moved away because they didn’t want to integrate, not because they were being priced out or couldn’t afford to live there anymore.

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That first sentence should read “Anecdotes say otherwise.”

And to your credit, you never said they were.

Yeah, the title is more missing a "than"

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Also becoming dirtier and more dangerous.

The Newtown Annex was used for freshmen back when I got there in 1984, too. It did indeed suck. Still way better than junior high.

Before i recount this experience i just want to clarify i know that many, many others have had it much much worse and my heart goes out to them. I was super lucky, but at the same time never a trouble maker and just wanted to keep a low profile, peacefully participate/march, listen to speakers and observe.

I’ve experienced just what you described years ago in 2011 at Liberty Plaza, (Zuccotti Park). I’m a quiet person, much more so at that time. I had no signs, no offensive t-shirt or clothing, no long hair, no amplifying devices, no drugs, wasn’t drinking, they weren’t making an announcement, closing down the park for night. It wasn’t racial, we were the same race. I racked my brain for a long time after, analyzing what reason this officer had to do what he did. I have no idea to this day why this white shirt chose me, but it was super weird and surreal just like much of Occupy Wall Street was.

I was standing in one of the concrete brick bench circles, (i don’t know if they are still there or if the park has been given a makeover), at the NE corner of the park. A white shirt officer walked up to me inside that circle and i had no where to go, i was backed up against the bench. All he did was stand still, right in front of me, look me right in the eyes and stare, inches away, for what seemed like an eternity. I must have made a gesture looking behind me to try to show that I don’t have anywhere to go, but that didn’t faze this guy at all.

I can’t remember what else i did except just stand there and wait until he gave up on whatever his goal was. No words were even exchanged. I wanted to show this ape that I wasn’t afraid and would not take the bait. I kept my mouth shut and patiently waited and i either squeezed backward, awkwardly climbing out of that pinned position, scraping up my shoes or he walked away. I mostly just remember being pinned, the stare with arms crossed, silence and looking down at me like i was a cockroach.