clinton hill/park slope
am thinking of moving to clinton hill or park slope. clinton hill costs less, but park slope is more of an established hood. am also concerned about safety in clinton hill- want to be near the c train but it seems a little dicey around there at night. any thoughts would be appreciated. thanks.
am thinking of moving to clinton hill or park slope. clinton hill costs less, but park slope is more of an established hood. am also concerned about safety in clinton hill- want to be near the c train but it seems a little dicey around there at night. any thoughts would be appreciated. thanks.
park slope has pretty great restaurants and REALLY great shops with a new one opening practically every other day.
you just have to take a walk around these places and get a feel for what’s important to you.
park slope is filled with singles. I really see very little differnce among the brownstone neighborhoods of brooklyn outside of Bed Stuy and Crown Heights.
All are priced around the same and filled with the same people. The whites in clinton hill are pushing out the black families and in park slope the whites are pushing out the puerto ricans. Same shit just a few blocks away.
park slope has a shitload more useless stores however.
Crime Stats for Clinton Hill (443 total since Jan. 1):
http://nyc.everyblock.com/crime/locations/neighborhoods/clinton-hill/
And total crimes for Prospect Heights (347 total since Jan. 1):
http://nyc.everyblock.com/crime/locations/neighborhoods/prospect-heights/
With this recession and the stock market tumbling 400 points today, try 10 years, 3:58.
And by the way I am also a young, single male and I LOVE Park Slope. Wouldn’t want to live anywhere else, in fact. All my neighbors are young, single and work in creative fields. Two of them just moved into the building FROM Clinton Hill because one was robbed outside the subway.
It is a myth that Park Slope is all families. It is actually only 25% married with kids, if you look at the ACTUAL data from the Census.
Over 50% of Park Slope are singles, so the reasons you felt out of place, 3:58 must be more personal.
3:29, please, oh pretty please, will you pull out the crime stats? Give detail about the TYPES of crimes too while you’re at it.
And then explain why all the PH folks are obssessed with crime on brooklyian, to the point that they even devised a very nice “mugging map”.
I like PH, but people petrified about crime should not be told to go to PH over clinton Hill/Fort Greene.
I just moved from Park Slope to CH hill and am very happy that I moved. I am 29 years old, white and single and felt very out of place in Park Slope – its not very exciting unless you have kids or own a house. Very white and suburban feeling. CH is different. Less foot traffic, less amendities etc but the neighborhood is super diverse and the homes are beautiful. For me working in mid town its also a much better location. I can be at work in 30 mins and am also close to Fort Green and Williamsburg. That being said, let me tell you that I am currently doing my grocery shopping at Whole Foods Union Square and then lugging it back to CH. It will take 2-3 years for it to have the kind of amendities as PS.
Williamsburg is the ugliest hood in Brooklyn.
And way too expensive for what it is.
Everything cool is leaving Williamsburg for the Gowanus, anyway.
i’m 3:29 and i don’t live in prospect heights, if that’s what you are referring to, 3:41.
no to clinton hill
no to prospect heights if you are at all freaked out about safety. i lived in PH for 2 years and couldn’t wait to get out.
what about williamsburg? has amenities and prime burg is very safe!