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Bronx Residents’ Crime, Safety Concerns Lead Quality of Life Survey

A citywide survey has everyone raving about their ‘hoods, but Bronxites are apparently not so happy in theirs - when it comes to crime and safety.

The quality of life survey by the Citizens Committee for New York City found issues Bronx residents also rated as most important - but of the lowest quality - were clean sidewalks, streets and open spaces; clean air; public officials’ responsiveness to neighborhood needs; quiet neighborhoods and good public schools.

They were most satisfied with proximity to public transportation as well as shops, restaurants, parks and playgrounds. They were also happy with the borough’s diversity and having neighbors they get along with.

The survey questioned 340 Bronxites. While statistically a low sample, the Citizens Committee said it sought a broad range of respondents - in parks, on street corners, outside the Bronx Public Library and on the Grand Concourse.

“I think it is significant that everywhere else in the city beside the Bronx considers their neighborhoods relatively safe,” said Jemilah Magnusson, spokeswoman for the Citizens Committee, a nonprofit group that promotes civic engagement. “Even if it is just perception.”

John Robert, district manager of Community Board 2 in Hunts Point-Longwood, said he thinks the results are representative.

“All of the outer boroughs suffer from the stepchild thing, but we’re maybe the third stepchild,” he said. “The Bronx is on the back burner.”

Residents elsewhere gave their boroughs a fair-to-excellent rating on safety. Bronxites gave the borough’s safety a lower rating of poor to good. Read more..

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The Bronx? No thonx, say residents 

New Yorkers are full of love for their neighborhoods these days - unless they live in the Bronx.

While 75% of city dwellers described their neighborhoods as between “good” and “excellent” in a new survey by the Citizens Committee for New York City, Bronx respondents largely gave their blocks the Bronx cheer.

There, 64% of survey respondents rated their neighborhoods between “poor” and “good.”

A big factor was safety.

City dwellers across the five boroughs agreed in the survey that safety was the most important quality-of-life issue in the city, and Bronx residents were the least likely to call their neighborhoods safe.

“At night, you go to sleep and hear bullets,” said Gloria Taylor, a 56-year-old grandmother and homemaker in Soundview, the Bronx. “If you go out at 6 or 7 in the morning, you never, ever close your eyes.”

Bronx residents said their streets were significantly less safe than those in other parts of the city. Brooklyn residents said theirs were a little less safe, while in Manhattan, Staten Island and Queens, respondents overwhelmingly said they felt safe - and that their streets were above the city average.

“The police are always around here all of the time, said Shirley Russell, 39, of Ozone Park, Queens. “We don’t have a lot of shootings or break-ins or anything like that. It’s quiet.”

New Yorkers in the survey also ranked clean air and streets and access to public transportation as major issues that affect urban quality of life.

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