261 Holidays (Weekends)

Jimmy had a night's rest, got up in the morning, washed up, and changed into casual clothes and went for a walk. Jimmy had already looked at the FBI archives before, and several major gangster gathering places in Manhattan were marked, and it was dangerous to go out at night, but it was much better during the day.

After years of black-and-white struggle, by the beginning of the 21st century, the underground world of New York has become more and more standardized, for ordinary people, as long as they do not go to some special places during the day, basic safety can still be guaranteed, and the underground world mostly stays honest during the day and comes out at night to activities.

In New York, shootings, burglary, robbery, rape, homicide and other vicious cases occur mostly at night, while during the day most of them are public security cases and disputes, such as speeding, car accidents, fights, theft, noise disturbances, etc., and gang activities are basically at night.

Jimmy drove to Baoli Street, which was a crowded place for Jimmy, and he walked into a mobile phone store, bought an anonymous phone with cash, and left.

The anonymous phone I used in Little Rock has been abandoned, and I didn't plan to do private work after I came to New York, so I haven't been prepared, and now it seems that I still need to get one, at least I don't have to look around for this kind of store when I use it urgently.

Follow Little Italy, Chinatown, Midtown, Uptown, all the way to his destination, Harlem. It's the third most chaotic area of Manhattan on the surface.

The first is Clinton, which is also known as Hell's Kitchen, but it has already begun to be overhauled, and the government and police agencies have carried out a major cleanup of gangs in the Clinton area, and then major real estate companies have come in and are ready to take the land there to start high-end apartments and office buildings.

The Clinton District was also the area that the FBI focused on before, but in the past, it was only based on social security to deal with some gang members, and the symptoms were not cured, but now the demolition and reconstruction plan promoted by the government involves too many big forces, large sums of money have been introduced, and all parties have strongly intervened, and Hell's Kitchen is no longer worthy of the name. In fact, in the first decade of the 21st century, house prices and rents in Clinton rose at the fastest rate in New York.

The second is Chinatown and the little Italy next to it, the history of the Italian mafia is well known, and Chinatown can stand tall for decades, and even won Flushing in Queens and 8th Street in Brooklyn, which is a very important reason because the Chinese gangsters at that time dared to fight and ate a big piece of cake in the intricate New York underworld. There are many historical stories here, and they involve Chinese gangs on the West Coast, which will be talked about later when I have a chance.

The third is Harlem, north of Manhattan, on the border with the Bronx, which is a traditional black and Latino neighborhood that often represents chaos and is one of the cheapest places in Manhattan.

Jimmy is on vacation anyway, and he is idle when he is idle, and he used to read the information to understand the situation, but now he has time, so he can drive around casually and take a look at the field, which can be regarded as adding some experience to himself, and when he returns to work, he probably won't have so much time to wander around.

As for the purchase and the house, well, the house Peter has already taken a lot of help to find someone, so wait for the news, the purchase is not in a hurry, let's see how much the house costs first, in case the funds are insufficient, it will be funny.

Housing prices in Manhattan are rising so fast, and prices vary so much from area to area, that Jimmy is now taking advantage of the break to take a break and get around and find out in advance.

On the one hand, I came to Harlem to see the situation around the gang stronghold related to work, and on the other hand, I planned to start from Harlem and go south, and I ran around each area to take a look, so I should be familiar with the road.

Jimmy drove slowly along the road, his eyes frequently fell on the buildings and pedestrians on both sides of the road, and it was obvious that there were many people with all kinds of tattoos, black and Latino, who seemed to live in a mixed manner, unlike Chinatown, where there were many Chinese, and most of Little Italy was of Italian descent.

It's just that Jimmy hasn't seen enough information, he can't be like Ruiz, based on the tattoos to determine which gang they belong to, it seems that after going back to work, he has to calm down and look at more information, he has always felt bored to read the information, and now it seems that the length of a trainee agent stipulated by the FBI for half a year is definitely experience, and it is completely insufficient to read and write down all the files in a certain aspect.

Jimmy is a little regretful, he was still too shallow before, thinking that he would just read a little information to understand, but now it seems that those materials are not enough to say that they have memorized all of them, at least they have to memorize most of them, and then they can play a role in actual use.

After a big circle in Harlem, Jimmy left Harlem and entered the Upper East Side, which was relatively much better here, and the police were abundant, and Jimmy saw a lot more patrol police cars on the road than in Harlem.

The Upper East Side is also known as the rich area, which is formed by the rich people who naturally gathered after the completion of New York's Central Park, early New York, after the establishment of Central Park, gradually developed and gathered along Fifth Avenue to the east, and finally formed the prototype of the rich district at the end of the 19th century, in the process of New York's great development in the 20th century, the gathering siphon effect was stronger, with Central Park as the core, gathering the rich and rich to the east and west, while other colored people gathered in the periphery, forming the later chaotic district of Harlem and Little Italy.

Jimmy looked enviously at the high-end apartments around, but unfortunately, he definitely couldn't afford the houses here, they all start from millions of dollars, and many apartments have their own apartment committees responsible for reviewing the buyers' information to ensure that the people who join these areas have enough strength and power to artificially create isolation barriers.

Jimmy rests in Central Park and settles his lunch by the way, the long Central Park is the favorite park of New Yorkers and the most visited park in the United States, Jimmy sits on a bench in the shade of a tree, eating the lunch he bought outside, and also getting some fresh air. The main thing is that the air in other places is mixed with all kinds of smells, which is too damaging to the mood, and it is relatively good in the green area of Central Park.

In addition, you can see all kinds of beautiful women at any time in Central Park, some are doing sports, and there are also a few people chatting together, so it is a good place to relax and relax.

(End of chapter)