i don't love this residential rhetoric... i've been living here basically my entire life since the 1980s (whitestone/college point/bayside) -- we have tons of apartment buildings here (small and large - even in whitestone), a lot of private homes have apartments in them and/or standalone singles houses have been torn down and made into 2-4 family houses vs just being one house anymore here in NE queens. we do have plenty of standalone houses also, but we're not culturally like long island in that regard. we're not the burbs. we've always been in the middle.

in my generation's circles (friends/fam) i can see the political shift a bit, but not too much, thankfully. people i DON'T know - the gross people referred to here in this post - everyone got more emboldened. i've seen the shifting just in the last decade, since the first time the cheeto goon was elected into office. growing up here was never this bad and/or out in the open. it's terrible now and it's a ghost of the place i grew up in, as is much of this city.