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?
chosen:
lets see 95k and early retirement… not bad if you want to hang out around “THE PROJECTS” all the time.
you know the tests dont actually take the brightest dont you? they would go insane. have you ever been booked? you couldnt get a pulse if you stacked all the officers in the lobby together.
thanx, but ill suffer on paying for my own metrocard and not parking on others sidewalks cause im too lazy to use that metrocard.
not really a tough call at all.
Gem – that’s just speculation on my part based on having read what qualifies one for public housing.
not to get off on an anti-hasidic tirade, but I have read many stories about how they have manipulated to receive affordable housing they may not have been qualified for.
One that pops into mind is how the majority of the affordable housing component at Schaeffer Landing was awarded to the hasidic community, even though a lottery was supposed to have taken place. Coincidence?
This is just what I heard – not sure how valid it is, so don’t shoot the messenger!
OMFG, CHOSEN! NOW I WANNA JOIN THE NYPD!!! LOOK OUT NEW YORK!
*ROB*
personally i think it’s f-ed up that the only way to get into the projects for the most time is if you have children or a disability. i think if the projects were open to more people from various walks of life they would be safer and better maintained. i would totally move into the projects for a much cheaper rent. but i guess it doesnt exactly work that way.. are the projects for the most part in the city you pay 1/3 of your income, regardless of what your income is? that was how the housing projects complex was when i lived in jersey. i think they had the same rules tho, you had to have kids and/or be disabled or be a senior citizen.
*rob*
You probably advised her well on not working for JP Morgan, or going to Columbia.
However, had she joined the NYPD just five years ago, she would have been at top pay – 95K base, uniform check, holiday pay, free metrocard, free parking – how is that going bkn4 life?, 28 paid vaction days – when you include your RDO’s (days off) that comes to a little more than two months off a year, subsidized housing – in the PJ’s, Officer next door, defined benefit pension and you can still fund your own deferred compensation 401K like plan, law school scholarship, grad school scholarships, excellent legal representation for you and your family – closings, divorce, etc… OVERTIME and job security. What’s best is that you can retire with a full pension after 20 years of service. For most this means retired at 42/43. Full pension is about half your salary. Average pension last year was about 70K and you get a 12,500 check every December called a Variable Supplement. All of this and you are still young enough to work another career.
BTW, living in BH, Williamsburgh or Chelsea is not that bad.
Chosen, did your folks stick you in summer school, too? That was fun. We made those silly flying ducks with foil wings in ‘Shop”. I wonder if I still have those…
no offense dirty.
Whoa DO NOT get me started on the Hasids.
DH – are you friggin serious?
wow
Maybe PropJoe could weigh in more on that.