Franklin Street C
We’re looking at a house near the Franklin Street C station, and we’re interested in hearing opinions about the neighborhood – how safe is it? what could we expect by way of grocery stores or drug stores? predictions for the future? Thanks, DQ
We’re looking at a house near the Franklin Street C station, and we’re interested in hearing opinions about the neighborhood – how safe is it? what could we expect by way of grocery stores or drug stores? predictions for the future? Thanks, DQ
I’ve lived around the corner from Franlin subway for about 2 years and my experience has been positive. I have had no frightening or hostile experiences at all-in fact the only hostility has been from from some over enthusiastic cops when I cycle 15 feet on the sidewalk. Carroll Gardens it is not (thankfully) and I have had some goings on in front of my building but nothing scary. Fulton street is rather drab however and apart from some individual stores I really appreciate such as the building supply store I don’t think much of the selection. Apart from that, its a hell of a lot more friendly than other areas I’ve lived in in Brooklyn. Library, ymca, lots of subways-you can do a lot worse.
We are hopefully about to close on a brownstone in the area. We spent count;ess afternoons walking around and the neighborhood seems quite friendly andnice. People actually say helloon the street and the cultural diversity wasactually something we seek (coming from park slope where all the diversity is being forced from the neighborhood). There is a great coffee shop nearby called Bush Baby and excellent ethnic food.
And the subway makes it a hop, skipand a jump to everything (much better than the G which is really isolating). Good luck
We are hopefully about to close on a brownstone in the area. We spent count;ess afternoons walking around and the neighborhood seems quite friendly andnice. People actually say helloon the street and the cultural diversity wasactually something we seek (coming from park slope where all the diversity is being forced from the neighborhood). There is a great coffee shop nearby called Bush Baby and excellent ethnic food.
And the subway makes it a hop, skipand a jump to everything (much better than the G which is really isolating). Good luck
We are hopefully about to close on a brownstone in the area. We spent count;ess afternoons walking around and the neighborhood seems quite friendly andnice. People actually say helloon the street and the cultural diversity wasactually something we seek (coming from park slope where all the diversity is being forced from the neighborhood). There is a great coffee shop nearby called Bush Baby and excellent ethnic food.
And the subway makes it a hop, skipand a jump to everything (much better than the G which is really isolating). Good luck
Franklin is not in the 88th, but the rather the Bed-Stuy Precinct (border at Classon). The area really (surprise, surpirsie) vairies bl block. The commercial strip on Fulton is very different from Fort Greene. While more solid and denser than in Clinton Hill, it is serving the very evident West African immigrant community. Seems at once less iffy than, say Grand and Fulton, but also a bit less “in transition” towards a gentrifying local. But of course all this could be good, depending on your taste (for all I know you are a recent immigrant from Senegal looking to be close to the mosque at Bedford and Fulton!). I would argue that although the housing stock is not as uniformly gorgeous as it is deeper in Stuy Heights or in the center of Clinton Hill, it still offers the potential of walking to BAM, etc. Most people I know with kids are looking outside of the neighborhood for schools – either to the up and coming schools of FG/CH (20, 11), or Brooklyn New School, PS 261, etc. I have heard from friends that Franklin itself still has some prostitution issues, and drug sales and attendent violence (might want to google about a murder in a social club on Frnaklin Avenue which was erroneously described as a cutesy old guys club when it is in fact a drug den [interestingly this murder did not happend in PLG]). There was a spate of burglaries, but I suspect there are burglaries everywhere, no? But i think Donatella’s advice is really good. Walk, sit in a playground, walk into the stores. You would be very close to Grand Avenue bars, Choice, etc.
I have a recommendation. I suggest that you take a couple of trip there by subway at different times of the day. You can check the 88th Precinct crime statistics too, which will show their crime numbers broken into different categories. But ultimately how you feel walking around will be really important.