Bushwick Projects and Environs Safe?
Over on Brooklynian, a concerned mother worries that her attractive daughter is planning to move to a new apartment across the street from the Bushwick projects. The feedback from the peanut gallery is pretty unanimous: She’s got good reason to worry. “Simply put,” responds one board member, “This is a dangerous area and probably a…
Over on Brooklynian, a concerned mother worries that her attractive daughter is planning to move to a new apartment across the street from the Bushwick projects. The feedback from the peanut gallery is pretty unanimous: She’s got good reason to worry. “Simply put,” responds one board member, “This is a dangerous area and probably a bad place to live if your daughter is not extremely street savvy, large, or armed.” The sentiment is confirmed by another commenter: “Lived near there for three years. Nothing ever happened to me but my girlfriend was the victim of an attempted “push in” robbery or perhaps rape.” Yikes. Should mom bail out her daughter?
“when you say “outsider” who exactly do you mean?”
You didn’t ask me, but…
An outsider is someone whose racial, cultural, and/or economic background is very different from the rest of the community.
But you knew that, didn’t you…
Albany Houses are in Crown Heights, not Bushwick. Bushwick Houses are close to the Montrose Ave L stop and the Flushing Ave JMZ, or prime hipster territory. If I were her mom, I’d be more concerned about the bedbug infested Mckibben St lofts than anything.
I thought MM was being sarcastic with what she said there, What….
You can tell when something is getting ready to die. They will to anything that attracts attention! When I point these thing out everyone says “What your crazy” or “Stop Brownstoner is not trying to inflame anything”. This post is proof positive of such behavior.
Guys you need to go over to Brooklynian and read some of that crap(I got banned heh heh). They whine about everything (Black people, crime, dogs, etc.). Brownstoner is trying to pull that Covert Race/Class based magic of to here. If you had any brains in your heads just leave this alone and ignore it…
The What (Brownstoner=Epic Fail)
Someday this war is gonna end…
Oh one more thing
“Everyone knows people in the projects gather at the curb like vultures on trees waiting for naieve, attractive girl-flesh to stroll by, oblivious to the dangers, humming along to her ipod. Mothers SHOULD be concerned. The guys all want her, the girls all hate her cuz she’s beautiful, the old people want her youth, and the kids want the ipod. DANGER!!!!!!”
Morris this why we will never get along….
You people who think the projects are safe places for outsiders to live near are sadly naive (or maybe you just like the thought of fools being mugged, or worse…).
newsouthsloper sums it up pretty well.
Although many may not like what newsouthsloper has written, it hits the nail on the head.
Newsouthsloper
when you say “outsider” who exactly do you mean?
TONY- An italian neighborhood? I laughed my ass off when I read that DIBS. As in Danza or Manero?
At least the mom isn’t one of those Murray Hill moms who insists that her little bubala lives in a doorman building so the street urchins work screw with her crotch-fruit.
MM and others – I know its tempting to boil this down to a racial divide, but the harsh fact of reality is this more has to do with culture. Projects are in fact a warehouse for inner city poor. The culture of this envirnment is unfortunately one of disrespect for women, aloofness to crime, chronic drug abuse, and glorification of the “Pimpish” lifestlye.
This invariably leads to a dangerous situation for any “outsider” that comes into contact with this culture because it is ultimately based on preying on the weak and exacting vengence for societal injustices, whether real or imagined.
The mother is right to be concerned because there is definately an elevated risk of crime – especially for a female, attractive or not. Dont beleive me, take a walk in front of any major city project on a warm spring day and see how many people you make eye contact with. If you are anyone that does not fit their culture, I bet it will be very few. You will feel an overwhelming sense of relief when you put a few blocks between yourself and the project and you managed to get past with only a few mildly agressive comments towards you, your wife, or your girlfriend.
It is not specifically racial, it is most certainly cultural.