Posted on 11/21/2008 9:21:51 AM PST by Dahoser
It was only a matter of time. A New York school has been renamed in honor of President-elect Barack Obama.
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what if he proves to be a lousy prez? will they rename the school?
what if he is never sworn in, but deported instead?
In spite of spousal loyalty you know that Hempstead has everything that I listed and the rest of Nassau does not. Hmmm...maybe that’s why you guys didn’t settle there...
Ridiculous.
Abstract: Hempstead NY's police force copes with a daily influx of commuters and nightly gatherings of unruly youths, drug dealers and violent gangs. Policing this diverse community often seems an impossible task, one that is filled with danger for the officers.
Crime stats for just the first two months of 2008 (from the Hempstead PD)...
Murder - 3
Rape - 2
Robbery (with force or threat of force) - 21
Assault - 43
Burglary - 27
Larceny - 72
Sex Crimes - 3
Drug sales - 23
Prostitution - 12
All in only 59 days.
The Bloods, the Crips, Mara Salvatrucha all have a strong presence in Hempstead. The Salvadoran gang's first NY area chapter started in Hempstead.
Yep, just your regular Nassau County suburban bedroom community.
Oh, the Hempstead PD sees the above stats as a 24% drop over 2007.
The place is a sewer and you wouldn't raise any of your kids there on a bet.
It’s all quite beguiling, but (a) where is the link for this data and (b) where is the data for other LI communities?
True? Yes.
As for links...do your own homework, see if you can find anything that contradicts the data. Start with Hempstead crime stats.
Here's another little Hempstead tidbit....
Nassau County Youth Football league does not allow the Hempstead team to handle the cash used to pay the officials at the games. The opposing team makes the payments. This is because the Hempstead coaches were keeping the money. I'm a coach in the league. I know this for a fact.
As I wrote, your spousal loyalty is nice but you don't know Hempstead (or pretend that you don't) and you would never raise your own family there.
As I wrote, your spousal loyalty is nice but you don't know Hempstead (or pretend that you don't) and you would never raise your own family there.
You make many claims about what I do and do not know, what I would or would not do, and my motives in general. If you knew how many times you were wrong--or in any event how obnoxious it is--you would stop.
You are not fooling me at all. All your cuteness will not change the facts about hempstead one bit.
You haven’t verified any facts about Hempstead. You haven’t even clarified whether you mean Village of Hempstead or Town of Hempstead.
All you’ve really done is demonstrate hysterical melodramatic fear.
Saddens me to see my two fav guys debating like this. Otherwise, the real issue at hand is schools renaming themselves for a president who has not doing anything except be trendy and look remarkably similar to Mussolini and Chairman Mao in his photographs. He’s pro-abortion and that’s all there is to it.
Otherwise, I’m off to work. Go to your respective corners and be nice while I’m away :o)
tronski -- Peace.
As bad as Hempstead can be, Roosevelt is far worse (as is Wyandanch in Suffolk).
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Actually, no.
Roosevelt and Wyandanch are deeply troubled communities that are suburban with many urban problems. The same is true of parts of Freeport, Riverhead, Amityville and Huntington Station.
What makes Hempstead different and worse is that it is far more concentrated, actually urban, not traditionally suburban. Street level prostitution (in pockets) has been part of the problem for decades. The same with open markets for drugs (like Terrace Ave.). There are more registered sex offenders in Hempstead than anywhere else on the island. The gangs are bigger, badder and there are more of them than anywhere else on the island.
There are good people in Hempstead and I remember when it was a good place to live but those days are long gone.
1. The construction of shopping centers such as Roosevelt Field sucked the life out of downtown Hempstead. Landlords had trouble renting the buildings (both the stores and the apartments above them) and started taking section 8/allowing disreputable businesses.
2. The construction of newer suburbs like Levittown and East Meadow made Hempstead less desirable, leading realtors to steer black families moving out of NYC to the one place where there would be little resistance (due to lack of demand from the white majority) to them moving in.
There were attempts to make Hempstead a "succesfully integrated" community during the 1960s and 1970s (a la Montclair or Shaker Heights), but they failed.
The older white folks died off and were replaced by black families. LI is the most segregated are in the country, by choice of all parties. Black LIers choose to invest their home buying dollars in "black" towns. It has been that way since the forties. Gordon Heights in Suffolk was created specifically to be a black Levittown.
Hempstead hit the tipping point in the sixties and the town has deteriorated steadily since then with the Carter years hitting particularly hard.
Have a happy...
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