In my life ive seen them go up and start to come down ...never did i expect this question but tells you how much things are changing but you know also odd question since no one does it for style ...they do it for anti theft... I don't think anyone goes...hey let me put some gaudy cast iron on all my windows and block my views for style

But if that really is some serious question and not some bad attempt at sarcasm then here is the real answer:

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Few years back maybe even as recently as 4-5 years ago it was the hood of hoods. Ton of a abandon buildings and warehouses - drug dealers so entrenched in their spot they would set up full on canopies camping chairs to sit behind the warehouse and sell and the warehouses and big buildings would be come crack houses and stashes.

All along pacific and the side streets were extremely dangerous you would drive past half a dozen meth heads easily on any give day even in the middle of they day.

Meth heads , crazies , tons of robberies etc. So almost every door and window was secured - porches were fully enclosed. Just a few years ago i was shocked to start to see home owner taking down the gates on their porches and some even taking the bars off the windows !

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It really started to change when the overflow from downtown started renting down there along pacific and some developers bought out the old foundry and turned it into housing complex called ....the foundry . City focused effort their pushed the dealers out , devs bought up all the old buildings , city put a pedestrian bridge in that you can cut down the main road to the park and take right to jersey ave.... Now they have a full on bridge.