I used to walk along under the El with my mother every week to go to the McPherson Square Library from Tioga Street in the 80s and early 90s. The most dangerous thing for me was walking on top of all those damn bilco doors. Sure you had hookers at certain corners and as kids would see the vials with colored caps laying around (2-for-fives), but you would rarley see a zombie.

In the mid 2000s you had a bunch of hipsters move into areas of Fishtown and Kensington which looked promising as commerence boomed. However, with those hipsters came progressive policies.