Talk:Clason Point, Bronx

"There was a local and plentiful food source of oak acorn nuts for grinding purposes here." Whatever an "oak acorn nut" may be, the teller of this is unaware of the extinct American Chestnut, I'm quite sure. -Wetman (talk) 12:45, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Too Bad
The Bronx was not always a crime ridden mess. My father was raised in the Clason Point section of the Bronx and tells me stories of his childhood there before public housing destroyed the area. As a young boy in the 1940s he spent his days wandering the marshes, digging for clams, fishing, riding his bike and swimming. The area was safe and provided a nice life for those who lived there.

My mother was also raised in Clauson's point. She grew up in a modest house on a tree lined street. She loved her childhood there, and met and married my father in the neighborhood.

Things began to change in the 1950s as misguided social programs took flight. To build the various public housing project, the marshes were filled in, the meadows and streams destroyed. The once healthy neighborhood was now sectioned off by giant looming complexes of housing blocks, ugly, dense and dark. They were quickly filled with residents who had no sense of personal responsibility, no values and bad habits. These apartment dwellers received government support and money from the state to live. With no need to get up and work each day, trouble quickly set in. The Bronx became a dumping ground and was ruined forever.

I spent the first ten years of my life living in the Rosedale Avenue Academy Gardens. There was a large housing project built right across the street. When crime started in the hallways of our building, my parents knew it was time to leave. My father was a bricklayer, never had much money, but he worked like a dog to get us out of there. Two and three jobs, weekends and double shifts, he saved and borrowed so we could escape. I never saw him, he was too busy working and our family suffered. Some like to call it white flight, but is that a fair term? Who wants to see their neighborhood become a crime ridden, dangerous place to live? Who would not leave? Yes, people left the Bronx, but we did it unwillingly. We were forced out by the state and federal politicians who decided the Bronx was a good place to warehouse the degenerate, with no values, no pride or work ethic.

I've been back to Clauson's Point recently. Where the beachclub Shorehaven once stood is now a condo complex. Much of the private housing looks the same, although somewhat rundown. The areas close to the housing projects are desolate and bleak. Still ruined, still a mess. How sad for the Bronx and the people who once were able to live good lives there. How sad for those who had to run for their lives, away from crime and declining schools. How sad for the old timers who saw their streets and neighborhoods change overnight from civil communities to broken down slums. Memories forever soiled by failed policies and misguided social engineering policies. Forty years later and nothing has changed, the sense of loss remains the same. --BronxChix. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BronxChix (talk • contribs) 14:17, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

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