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Hackensack Discussion / Re: good/bad areas of hackensack?
« on: August 21, 2011, 05:07:49 PM »
Main Street... Bad Area... the whole strip... I have spoken with over 300 Hispanic, and 200 Black people over the past four weeks. Good family-oriented, law-abiding, hard-working people about Main Street and the Homeless. They are up in arms more now than before. They live here and have a right to complain about more services moving closer to their homes. Main Street is less desirable as a whole and they are shopping elsewhere, and not happy that because of the Transients, Vagrants, Released Prisoners who all are elligable to walk in and utilize CSPNJ refferals to local pantries, churches, groups/clubs and services. The people from the South Ward who drive, drive away from Hackensack to shop, and at a meeting many have niotred that when people move out undesirables move into the vacany houses/apartments and theyv are thinking of moving. The reason they want to move is BECAUSE of the homeless. The people from the South Ward who still occasionally walk up Main Street are set to abandon Main Street. The center on 179 Main (Mercer) should not move to the Court House and would be better serving actual mentally ill people near a medical facility and more carefully integrate them into society. Look... NO AREA on Main Street in Hackensack can EVER be gentrified like the Waterfront at Jersey city by simply moving a perpetuating homeless mill from one area to another.