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Gangland Shootings part 4 - Read OP before posting - updated 30/12/23
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italodisco wrote: »Mary Aikenhead House, what a name for a block of flats!
This is interesting though in terms of the localisation thing I mentioned earlier - again, this is early 2010s and I know the whole area seems to have already been undergoing significant social upheaval around this time, but Aikenhead House was directly next door to the Basin Street Flats and there was no comparison. Never heard a peep out of the place.
It's the complex of five or six free-standing blocks further down the street (as opposed to Aikenhead which is a square complex overlooking a central courtyard) which seemed to be the epicentre of nighty shouting matches at the very least and more often than not, violent fights and joyriding, that sort of sh!te - Basin St Upper, on the other hand, the end near Thomas St where Aikenhead House is, was almost freakishly quiet in comparison.
Anyone I know who's moved to Dublin from abroad is usually quite astonished by the utterly minuscule borders between generally agreed as safe areas and generally agreed as rough or dangerous - I haven't lived in other cities, but people from both mainland Europe and the States have commented that the kind of stark culture differences which in Dublin tend to differ from one street to the next (Anthony's Road and Church St being a perfect example, it's like the Bronx and SoHo literally backing on to one another
) tend to involve entire post codes in other cities. So in other words, if you're in a place like Basin St, you're going to be walking a loooooooong way before you get to somewhere which has a significantly safer feel to it. Basin St, on the other hand (as well as pretty much every other such area in Dublin that I can think of) is a matter of a two or three minute walk before you feel like you're in a totally different city! 0 -
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hatrickpatrick wrote: »This is interesting though in terms of the localisation thing I mentioned earlier - again, this is early 2010s and I know the whole area seems to have already been undergoing significant social upheaval around this time, but Aikenhead House was directly next door to the Basin Street Flats and there was no comparison. Never heard a peep out of the place.
It's the complex of five or six free-standing blocks further down the street (as opposed to Aikenhead which is a square complex overlooking a central courtyard) which seemed to be the epicentre of nighty shouting matches at the very least and more often than not, violent fights and joyriding, that sort of sh!te - Basin St Upper, on the other hand, the end near Thomas St where Aikenhead House is, was almost freakishly quiet in comparison.
Anyone I know who's moved to Dublin from abroad is usually quite astonished by the utterly minuscule borders between generally agreed as safe areas and generally agreed as rough or dangerous - I haven't lived in other cities, but people from both mainland Europe and the States have commented that the kind of stark culture differences which in Dublin tend to differ from one street to the next (Anthony's Road and Church St being a perfect example, it's like the Bronx and SoHo literally backing on to one another ) tend to involve entire post codes in other cities. So in other words, if you're in a place like Basin St, you're going to be walking a loooooooong way before you get to somewhere which has a significantly safer feel to it. Basin St, on the other hand (as well as pretty much every other such area in Dublin that I can think of) is a matter of a two or three minute walk before you feel like you're in a totally different city!
Nothing is quite like London. One end of a street is the most affluent place you can imagine and the other end is a complete no go area worse than you can imagine0 -
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