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?
The Brooklynian thread (yes, I used the powers of teh interwbs to find it myself) seems pretty civil, and fairly uniform in responses.
I know nothing about Bushwick so I’ll just sit back and watch, but I wonder why people think the civility of Brooklynian can’t continue here…
So if she wasn’t “attractive” there wouldn’t be an issue?
I don’t know the neighborhood. Maybe it’s a great place for young single women to live in with a stranger whose ad they responded to on Craig’s list.
But there are certainly places that a parent or friend or brother or anyone who gives a crap about someone should discourage them from living in. Anyone who denies this doesn’t know the city as well as they thing they do.
In the mid 90s I lived in a neighborhood that I described cheerfully as “I wouldn’t let my sister live here”. I lived there. I was fine. I was young, poor, and had a chip on my shoulder. No one gave me any crap. But I wasn’t a target. My sister would have been a target.
If I lived there now, I might be a target (now that I’m older, wealthier, and more complacent).
Part of being “street smart” is knowing when you are a target and minimizing the times you are.
bkn4life, you just lit the fire. anyone got marshmallows?
“the mother is probably also concerned cuz like most of the adult children kiddiots that infest bushwick and williamsburg, her mother is most likely subsidizing her rent.”
Do you know where I can find one of these “mothers” to subsidize my rent? I feel silly being the only one in my neighborhood writing checks to my landlord every month.
“And, in my experience the people with “more experience” never give you their opinion and drop it, they always get pushy and really annoying by trying to change your decision.”
Sounds like Team Bear!!!!
who in their right mind moves in across the street from a project?
they used to be stepping stones for people down on their luck. now they are warehouses of societal failure.
when i moved to brooklyn in the late 80s i had enough sense to steer clear of places where you “had to be on your guard.”
i know others who didnt. guess what, they regretted it.
almost any newcomer has that same sense. that means its someone who has frends in “projects” and thinks they can “handle it.”
might as well get out the yellow tape now.
might want those breathalizers in bars to stop the drunk hipsters from stumbling home as obvious targets/attractive hazards.
/end partially informed, wholely opinionated rant
“Since when does “old enough to make her own decisions” equal ‘too old to listen to input from people with more experience’?”
I read some of the mom’s other posts. Seems like every time the daughter makes a move, mom’s worried about her. Mom also lives in the woods in NJ, so I’m not sure how this gives her more experiece w/ Bushwick or city life in general.
And, in my experience the people with “more experience” never give you their opinion and drop it, they always get pushy and really annoying by trying to change your decision.
WOW, that’s all I have to say. I’m making popcorn…this should be good.