TheFAPnetwork t1_izi0k2x wrote on December 9, 2022 at 6:27 AM

Reply to comment by CinematicHeart in Is your neighborhood improving or getting worse? (And why?) by RoverTheMonster

My anecdotal view of fishtown was that in the 90s it was okay. There was mostly fights and people getting jumped by groups of kids, not like we see today. The biggest story was the Sweeney kid getting killed by someone he trusted and they found his body by graffiti pier. There wasn't the violence I was familiar with in Kensington, but it had its period of a downward spiral. Then the developing took over. I like to think it started with the old hospital on berks and Frankford; anyone remember when the roof caught on fire? Anyway, since then it's slowly crept up to what it is today, it really boomed commercially

CinematicHeart t1_izj2p41 wrote on December 9, 2022 at 2:04 PM

Freddie Adams was killed in a gang fight in the 90s. Don't tell the neighborhood that it was gang related though even though that's what all the evidence says. Wayne Ellis was murdered walking home in 2002. That is still unsolved but believed to be a robbery. The poor Sweeney kid. In the 90s a black family moved in on Marlborough and they had to have a cop outside untill they were able to move because people broke in and beat them up and they were constantly harassed. My grand father lived on Oxford and when he passed on my mom was selling it, a black couple viewed it and after that the house was graffitied with swastikas. I love the neighborhood because I grew up there but it has its issues. It always has but people dont want to face it. It's easier to blame the new people or the DA even though the cops never show up when called and if they do they are belligerent. I have never had a good experience with the 26th.