Two items of interest to kick-start the blog for 2010. An article in the Village Voice which says that behind the gentrification, crime is still a major problem in the LES, revolving around territorial disputes and gangs from the projects. Check it here.
Then to University Neighborhood High School, where I will be running an after-school audio workshop from next week, a student “stabbed” another student and it made the news.
What’s interesting about the incident is that according to the kids it wasn’t a big deal, it was a misunderstanding over a girl and they even talked it through afterwards, but that’s not the impression you are going to get from the news clip.
