What's the poorest part of Manhattan?

Question

Well I am writing another good story, so I need some information from people that live in New York. What is the poorest part of Manhattan, I know upper east is rich but what is the poorest part? I am talking about rundown bars, nearly condemned apartment buildings, kinda unsafe, and slums. I am writing this into my story so I need some information. So far I have parts where one character lives in the rich part of Manhattan. So I need more info please.

I need names and streets not just seeing the bums and hobos... It has to be in Manhattan

Answer 1

Really doesn't exist anymore, at least not in Manhattan. Goood luck finding a condemed apt buildin anywhere in Manhattan. Not with real estate at the highest proces in the nation.

Answer 2

The poorest part of Manhattan?
Manhattan? Poor ? Erm...

I don't know, but Spanish Harlem
and parts of Harlem are ...er...*poor*.
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I think you just know about the bad
things. In any place where they have
the bad things you mentioned, they
also have within a short distance all sorts
of good things. Don't think that Manhattan
is not full of life. While there may be some
parts that have poverty, there
is always something lively going on. In the two
areas I mentioned above there really are some abandoned buildings with metal over the windows and doors, old runkety fire escapes on the front of the building, strange looking power stations that belong to the gas & electric company or the subway system, empty lots right next door full of weeds, and things, but they hardly take up blocks and blocks of the city. Within a short distance, sometimes just around the
corner, there are great things.
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They may not be Shanghai Tang, they
may not be Prada but there are decent
stores, apartment buildings and
littlle private houses >>>>iii<<<<
people always have a
restaurant, a bodega, there is always
a park or a little spot to sit and have
your coffee & buttered roll, there
is always a place for Chinese food
or fish & chips, a pizza store, or
a hairdresser, or barber shop ...there is
always a CD shop or a place for
clothes, a place to buy perfume oils
or Muslim clothes, African clothes,
an ethnic grocer..... a church or a
little storefront church ... hospitals,
little medical clinics, schools, day-care
centers, check cashing places and
banks ...and to keep people safe there
are the Welfare and Social Security
Offices, the police and fire departments, schools, playgrounds and
parks....health food stores ....
taxis for hire .... gyms to
go to ... Manhattan is *full* of life
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Merrry Christmas!

Answer 3

Harlem is the poorest part of Manhattan so far as I know, but it's not as bad as it used to be. Still seems to have poor people, didn't notice a lot of abandoned buildings when I was there but I hardly did a comprehensive survey. South Bronx is pretty close to Manhattan and I recall seeing a few abandoned buildings there, although its supposed to not be the nightmare it used to be back in the 70s and 80s.

Answer 4

probably East Harlem, anywhere north of about 97th-98th Streets, east of 5th Avenue.

there are, of course, small pockets of gentrification and redevelopment here and there, but East Harlem probably has the most public housing projects, abandoned buildings and vacant lots as a whole.

if you ever ride the Madison Avenue busses uptown, the M1/2/3/4, you will notice the change almost immediately from a luxury condo at 96th Street to a housing project at 99th Street, to abandoned buildings dotting the landscape around 110th Street.

you might want to consider making your characters have an "uphill/rich" and "downhill/poor" kind of relationship living on the same street, yet worlds apart. for example, the "rich" part of Park Avenue ends at 97th Street, and immediately the Avenue goes steeply downhill while the railroad tracks come out and the housing projects already begin at 98th Street.

if you were ever to visit in person you would notice the stark contrast immediately...

Answer 5

All the way uptown... you could put any 3 digit street. But the only really poor people, that live indoors, in Manhattan, either live in an apartment that's they, or their family has had for many decades (and therefore cheap), or in public housing (projects), either of which can be found anywhere in Manhattan, even in some of the "richest" areas.

Another street with many poor residents is the Bowery... theres still a handful of "men's hotels", hotels in which the rooms are akin to bathroom stalls and cost something like $10 per night.

Answer 6

I used to live in all five boroughs.

I would say East Harlem! I just left there two weeks ago while on vacation. There are abandon buildings on certain blocks and closed in area's near stores. Windows are broken or slightly cracked. Doors are bulted up and left with a for sale sign for the properties listed on the block.

Especially on 119th, 120th, 121st, and up to 126th street. Horrible, dirty, drug addicts, dealers, and everything else you can find there. It was so disgusting.
The entire place needed to be hose down with water and soap. It is so filthy, that is one of the major reasons my husband and I moved out of there with our children.

Downtown is so, so, but I have been to other great cities that are extremely cleaner than New York. People do not seem to take pride in where they live. They seem to enjoy living in filth. Most of them are so immune to it, they become offended if you tell them how dirty the place is!

The South Bronx isn't any better! Nothing has changed since we had gone back to visit. We could not believe the conditions of most of the apartments where people were residing. The rats are the size of over fed cats! Condos are going up in areas that are not far from the ghettos in the city.

New York has lost it's appeal. It is very dreary, and grey. Sorry to be so negative, but that is my opinion of the place I used to call home. It has all gone down hill.

I wonder if people ever consider having something better for themselves, or live in a cleaner enviornment. I guess two each his own.

Not all area's of New York are like this, but a large portion is! We do not want to vacation there again, although it was once home...not anymore..we enjoy where we are living now. Thank God we got out of that rat hole of a place!

Good luck with your story.

Answer 7

Whenever you see people sleeping on the sidewalks, parks, and they smell, that is the place!!

Answer 8

harlem?