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?
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Seems to me the real current dangers in Bushwick are bedbugs and hipsters. I believe there are no more packs of marauding wild dogs or arson fires.
“who in their right mind moves in across the street from a project?”
someone who wants to pay less rent??
I’m sure her rent is pretty darn cheap – hell, people want 2 million dollars for brownstones in Boerum Hill sandwiched in between two housing projects. Condos in Dumbo aren’t cheap either, and are a stones throw away from the Farragut houses.
If it’s that bad at least she can move.
I agree with the mother here. It’s just natural to be concerned for the welfare of loved ones.
I read Brooklynian and they get questions about the safety of certain areas quite often. Usually the replies tell the original poster not to worry / stop interfering etc. Not so in this case. I do not know this area at all, but the fact that ALL of the replies say it is not safe is informative.
I don’t have kids, but I do have siblings. If this were my sister I would bail her out of there in no time.
what does TONY stand for btw? i see that all the time.
*rob*
Oh please!
Is this the movie where the savage (brown/black) heathen capture the beautiful (white) maiden to sacrifice her to their gods/King Kong/lusty warriors?
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!!!!!!
This will get 200 comments, sad to say.
There is no doubt an inherently larger risk of being a victim of a crime if you live across from a project.
Its no different than being more likely to be the victim of an earthquake if you live in San Fran. Yeah, you might get an earthquake in NY, but the major fault lines are concentrated in California.
The daughter just wants her chicken-sh^t mom to pony up some money for an apartment in a TONY neighborhood.
Stupid.
Duh. So many transplants lack the most basic of street smarts. Living across the street from any public housing will increase your chances of being the victim of a crime. I dont care if the projects are in Bushwick, the Upper West Side, or even Staten Island for that matter. It only will get worse in an economic downturn. Stick around and see for yourself.