It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.
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I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.
Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.
I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.
In Hoboken, when I was a kid, I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood.
I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that'... the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.
It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.
I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.
I used to live in the Bronx, then I lived uptown on 106th St. and Broadway, and finally I moved to Harlem right before it became gentrified. I lived on 120th St. between Fifth and Lenox Aves. in a little brownstone. I knew the neighborhood was changing when they started putting trees in the middle of the block.