[firebrand]

This neighborhood has not gone the way of Detroit. The mansions have been divided into smaller units, for the most part, but there are still many one-family homes.

[Paladin2]

"The mansions have been divided into smaller units, for the most part,"

Bummer, but logical.

I can see where the 'hood could maintain sufficient demand being so close to the still crusin' economy of lower Manhattan as long as crime suppression is good.

[Rodamala]

When I was going to school in Newark, every day I would drive down High Street the Hood on MLK and pass the old Ballantine Mansion... all boarded up... just like Detroit. I could only imagine what that neighborhood once was... all lovely brick mansions owned by wealthy brewer and industrialist families. Now it's all Trayvons jaywalking right in front of you like you are not there... smoking a blunt with a 40 of Olde English 800 in hand screaming obscenities at the ghetto rat's down the street as he shuffles off to service one of his 5 baby mammas... or trade in EBT card funds for instant lottery tickets and grape-flavored blunt wrappers.