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HobbyPlodder t1_j56kzga wrote

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I've been going to a gym (originally 12th st gym, RIP) close to there for years, and that section of walnut is very sketchy on a non-party night.

There's always aggressive homeless dudes outside of the VIP Market and across from Woody's, and going east there's usually not much foot traffic after dinner time. I've seen teens throwing shit at a drunk homeless guy, I've been followed for 4-ish blocks by someone clearly mentally unstable, etc.

I assume it's because of proximity to market east, and it's worse post-covid. But it definitely was shocking to me that a rapidly gentrified gayborhood would be so sketch.

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Peemster99 t1_j58l8xk wrote

The whole area between 12th and Broad has always had a level of pure sketchiness. There was pretty open male prostitution up until around 2010 and locker breakins have always been pretty common in the gyms in the area.

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