Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

How bad does it have to get??

Rape in Ducketts Common at 9pm on a Saturday night. Drug dealing throughout the passage in the middle of the day today. What can we do to stop this free-for-all???

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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on April 25, 2016 at 18:11

Nonsense...you'll outlive us all John...xx

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on April 25, 2016 at 20:10

John M and John D: Council tax is to pay for retired residents' Freedom Passes,

Some of us retired residents pay enough Council tax for our own so-called Freedom Passes and to collect the rubbish of those who pay none.

Mama, I'm 73 years old.

I, too, am kicking 73, I couldn't afford to eat breakfast this morning, I'm not about to start giving free history lessons about Ladder crime rates since 1887, but I'll use my Freedom Pass to represent y'all at John D's obsequies around the mid-century.

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Permalink Reply by Angela on April 25, 2016 at 21:48

I hope you are joking not being able afford to eat breakfast. I can't tell with you.

Just to join in with the competitiveness. I've lived in 3 different addresses in Harringay in over 20 years. It definitely feels safer (as opposed to is safer) and the ladder roads feel safer due to the one way, so called 20 mph system (as opposed to etc)

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on April 25, 2016 at 17:24

Well we've lived on Warham Road for over 30 years and the levels of crime were far, far worse. In the first five or so years we were here we were burgled twice (I actually caught one of them), attempted break ins seemed pretty regular, there was a murder next door to us, a drive by shoot out in the street and no one in their right mind EVER went down Harringay Passage
This is in no way is to down play the awful rape at the weekend but I feel safer here now than I have ever done.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on April 25, 2016 at 17:26

PS. And I was mugged three times right by my own house

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Permalink Reply by Flowermama on April 25, 2016 at 17:37

Whoa! Now that is perspective! As awful as that all was, it is comforting to hear that the area is presumably on the upswing safety-wise. With house prices so high in the area and rising, that is a good sign.

It's fascinating to think about all of the changes this area has been through since the 1800's. That is what I love about this country- the history!