When did the west village go downhill?

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When it became trendy..

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It’s all flat terrain.

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What happened

Huh?

What?

Do you live there? How long?

What happened?

I moved uptown a year ago so probably around then 😉

Chelsea is still downtown in my view, I’d put the line dividing uptown and down somewhere around 23rd st.

Lol the Spaniard

A lot of homeless soliciting (Ik they are all over nyc but it felt especially bad in the west village)

Most homeless people are veterans so have compassion.

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