Gowanus Houses Neighbors
We’re thinking about buying a place across the street from the Gowanus Housing Projects. We don’t really know that much about this specific neighborhood – we’ve spent the last 4 years in DUMBO. What do people think about being this close to these particular projects? This would be a live work space for us. We’re…
We’re thinking about buying a place across the street from the Gowanus Housing Projects. We don’t really know that much about this specific neighborhood – we’ve spent the last 4 years in DUMBO. What do people think about being this close to these particular projects? This would be a live work space for us. We’re concerned about safety and resale. Also, what do people think is going to happen with the Bond, Butler, Baltic St. blocks? THank you!
201l, this neighborhood is definitely on the up and up. I was born and raised in the projects. I work in a bank, i have never started trouble and don’t have a criminal background I am also in my last semester of college and will be attending law school in the fall. So what right do people have to say they wish they could blow me and MY FAMILY UP? We are good people my brother gave two years of his life in Iraq so you can have the right to say things such as this. Hes also a cop so when anyone of you decide to dial 911 think about the cop responding you never know where they came from. I’m sure I myself have done more in this one day than you have ever done in your entire life. I’m sure there are those in the projects who want to remain here and yes there are those who wish to leave but no one deserves to die just because they live here. A lot of people here are so close minded. It deeply saddens me to think this is NYC and people sit by one another on the train yet could careless about the next person. Also to the people that say they live here 1 really you write like a child way to look like a “gangster” you sound stupid. To the one who wrote “choise” Really? “choice” is the proper spelling and this is why people feel EVERYONE in the projects are the same. They aren’t truth be told we are all different and correct me if i’m wrong but sotomayor was born and raised in a housing project. It’s both good and bad. WAKE UP NEW YORK. I’m sure in your past EVERYONE has gone through hardships. It shouldn’t be about white or black. Both go through bankruptcy, both become teen mothers. EVERYONE cries and EVERYONE bleeds why doesnt anyone understand that? Please think before you speak.
im a 31yo black man born & raised in Gowanus, i have to say it wasnt a very nice area to live but alot has changed. But if you’re a white out of towner you might be not want to live there. There is a lot of drugs, prostitution & A WHOLE LOT OF GUNFIRE! But believe me when i tell you that the NYC has neighborhoods that are 10 times more dangerous.
FUCKIN PUSSY ASS WHITE PEOPLE GO AHEAD AND MOVE TO THE PROJECTS LMAOOOOO I FUKIN HATE U PUSSY ASS WHITE PEOPLE JUS LEAVE BROOKLYN N GO AND LIVE IN PUSSY ASS HI RISE APARTMENTS WHERE THERE ARE ONLY WHITE PEOPLE AND STARBUCKS. FUKIN HOMO ASS NIGGAS LMAO
DONT MOVE TO THE GOWANUS HOUSE.
I LIVE HERE.
IT SUCKS!
I HAVE NO CHOISE BUT TO LIVE HERE, THESE PEOPLE STINK. IM BLACK AND I CANT STAND MY OWN KIND. THEY ARE RUDE AND DIS-RESPECTFUL. THEY ARE ALL CRIMINALS AND THEY PEE IN THE ELEVATOR.
IF YOU DONT MIND GETTING ROBBED OR RAPED PLEASE BUY A HOUSE AROUND HERE.
yo i live over there son dont do it. dudes dont play. there r 2 high skools right by there n dudes always mess wit random ppl on their way home after skool. i saw 5 juniors surroundin this old white dude once n makin him give them his money, and this was on smith street. i wud reccomend u movin to staten island or sumthin lol
Bad idea. Do not buy a house across the street from a housing project if you are concerned with safety and resale. It’s just reality, not racism. Even people living in the projects don’t want to live there but have no choice because they can’t afford to live anywhere else.
Considering their size, those projects do not really affect the area. That said, about 2 yrs ago i was robbed by a group of kids from those projects. (Mr friend lived on degraw at the time.) Furthermore, the disparity between haves and have nots in the neighborhood creates some “friction”. If you talk to the cops that work in the districts, they would actively discourage you, but in the end its entirely up to you.
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I have lived on Bergen and then State Street (between Bond and Nevins) and now Hoyt near Atlantic for the last 11 years. Both my wife and I walk our baby down Hoyt Street all the time, and usually we walk on the east (housing project) side rather than the west (bodega side) because we actually feel safer on that side and because the sidewalk is wider.
If you are talking live/work, I assume you are looking at something structurally not a townhouse, like some of the buildings on Bond or else maybe on Douglass. I think safety wise you will be the same as in most other blocks in Boerum Hill — pretty safe but there is some lwo level crime. Gowanus Projects are much easier on the eye, IMO, than Wyckoff Houses over between Nevins and 3rd.
OTOH, being within a block or so of the projects will always impact resale value. I think the townhouses on Warren between Bond and Nevins (i.e., between the Gowanus and Wyckoff projects) are on a pretty great block, but they historically and today sell at 20-30% less than houses one to two blocks away in either direction.