Kim Buck

Run, don't walk to the nearest suburb, or even another borough. I am not going to lie. I was born in Parkchester and grew up in a time when you got a ticket if you put gum on a bench.

Parkchester is not safe. Articles are coming out stating that it has been gentrified. It's all hype to get people in there.

Back in the early 1970's a cop friend of my father's was called to our apartment building because the tenants were roasting a pig in a tub. Smoke and fire were billowing out of the window. No one in the immediate area could figure out what was going on. I kid you not. Once a cat was thrown off the roof, and landed right in front of our patio apartment.

A friend of my brothers: his mother was beaten up so bad in her elevator, coming home from getting groceries, she ended up in the hospital and almost died.

Sorry not to give you good news. But people have got to be honest when speaking of a development: whether good and bad.

I left Parkchester in 1979 and it was bad back then.

Find another place to live. It just may save your life.

kim - Wed Jul 9 2008, 03:30