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?
Personal experience?
I would do whatever I could to prevent a daughter of mine from living in such a dangerous location. End of story.
I can’t see her paying more then 600 bucks a month
Agree that “attractive” has nothing to do with it. (Rape is a crime of violence, not a crime of sexual attraction, etc. …) But the fact that the logic is bad, or the question implicitly racist, doesn’t make the projects any safer–nor does the fact that, “hey, you can get mugged anywhere in NYC, I know someone who got mugged on the Upper East Side last week…”
Some places in NYC ARE more dangerous than other places, the distastefulness of the question notwithstanding.
interesting.. – how does this girl being attractive relevant to her being robbed or raped?
isnt the boerum hill project the one where an officer who was scared shot a kid in a stairwell who brandished a toy gun?
yeah, right. projects are no worse than anyother place on earth.
i think you might want to stop on a street cornrer on a summer afternoon for a few hours and see if you really want to hang here.
Any idea what her rent is going to be???
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a friend of mine lived near these projects and was mugged and beaten up a bit. it was a crime of opportunity. fwiw, they chose to relocate.
that said, chances of this type of thing happening of course vary depending on neighborhood, sure, but being alert and careful about walking alone – those are good practices no matter where you live.
rob…its code for an Italian neighborhood.
benson’s gonna be all over her!!!! 🙂