【新加坡Singapore】大巴窑—昔日的大沼泽、贫民窟 Toa Payoh Tail

在新加坡开埠初期，大巴窑只是一片红树林沼泽地带，华人在十九世纪中前去开芭居住。

In the early days of Singapore’s opening as a port, Toa Payoh was just a mangrove swamp, and the Chinese went to Kaiba to live in the middle of the 19th century.

昔日的“大沼泽”，在几代人的努力下渐渐成为甘榜，可当时的大巴窑甘榜区，却是国人眼中出了名的“贫民窟”，居民不是务农，就是小贩、厂工或家庭帮佣。

The former "Great Swamp" has gradually become a kampong with the efforts of several generations, but the Kampong area of ​​Toa Payoh at that time was a well-known "slum" in everyone’s eyes. The residents were either farmers, hawkers, factory workers or domestic helper.

在整个1960年代至1980年代初，大巴窑就像今天的芽笼一样“臭名昭著”，当时这里有一些新加坡最大的犯罪集团和帮派。

Throughout the 1960s and early 1980s, Toa Payoh was as "notorious" as Geylang today, when it was home to some of Singapore's largest crime syndicates and gangs.

私会党徒经常在这里出没，九个月内就涉及两百多起罪案，是本地第一个设立邻里警岗的卫星镇。因此，当时大巴窑也被媒体称为“新加坡芝加哥”。

Private gang members often haunt here, and more than 200 crimes have been involved in nine months. It is the first satellite town in the local area to set up a neighborhood police post. Therefore, Toa Payoh was also called "Singapore Chicago" by the media at that time.



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