Clinton Hill:Lefferts Place okay to move to?
Looking at a top-floor 1 br in a brownstone on Lefferts. Want to get some opinions on the block/area before making a stupid decision. Franklin “C” station seems terrible. The Classon/Wash “C” is two blocks away. Any advice? It seems Princess Lefferts Hotel is across the street and is a flophouse. Any opinions out there?
Looking at a top-floor 1 br in a brownstone on Lefferts. Want to get some opinions on the block/area before making a stupid decision. Franklin “C” station seems terrible. The Classon/Wash “C” is two blocks away. Any advice? It seems Princess Lefferts Hotel is across the street and is a flophouse. Any opinions out there?
This is months later…i realize that. However, I think I should post, as a person with current experience in Clinton Hill.
I moved here two days ago. I heard some bad things about this place, that it was ghetto, but I like to give places and people a chance. I’ve lived in many places around the world, and throughout this country, and have never judged people on their income or nationality/ethnic background. That is irrelevant. However, I will make an assessment of my environment based on my personal experiences. So here it is:
Within moments of stepping out of my apartment (Monroe and Franklin), I was sexually harrassed by men. I was harrassed all the way to the subway, on the subway, and on my way home from the subway. Let me make something very clear, I’m not a wimp. I’m not a pushover. I do what I want, when I want, and based on my last few days here, I’ll I have to say is “FUCK this place!”
I’m actually listening to a lovely couple fighting, viciously, outside. Fantastic environment! NOT!!!!
Needless to say, I’m on my way, First-Class tomorrow, back to California where men act like men, not animals.
If you are a good-looking female, avoid this place! That is, of course, you enjoy being verbally/sexually devoured by a group of rampid, uneducated, presumptuous animals!
Cheers!
To the original poster — I agree with the poster above that Clinton Hill is not “ghetto” in any way; personally, I like the neighborhood but also have always felt that Lefferts Place is distinct from the rest of the neighborhood because it is on the east side of Fulton.
But that’s not the question you were asking — rather it is whether this specific _block_ on Lefferts has any problems. And every neighborhood has good and bad blocks (it’s just a question of how good/bad and how few/many).
From your postings, it does not seem that you are deliberately looking for a housing situation in which you intentionally are the interloper or outsider challenging the status quo, so the number one priority should be whether you feel comfortable.
The best advice people I ever heard given to a new transplant from outside NYC is this: go to the neighborhood at 11 PM (perhaps with a friend or two), walk from the subway to the building you are thinking about, and judge for yourself whether you feel Ok.
If you feel safe, then ignore the people posting who want to turn your question into a race/gentrifier issue. If you don’t feel safe, then that answers your question.
See. Like I said. People will resent you for being white and assume you have money and have taken property from someone who isn’t who used to live there. CH is full of black people who have a chip on their shoulder and some white people who think themselves cool for living among them.
Clearly what 1:18 finds so annoying about community oriented headphone wearers she doesn’t see in her ghetto nabe is that they are white.
My prediction: You’re gonna die.
don’t worry. Guest only talks like that as guest. He’s a probably a charmer!
forget it. if angry people like “guest” live there i would rather live in the office.
It’s interesting how “guests” seem to have no problem stating their opinion, with no information to back it up, or even a NAME – you’re just talking…talking…talking…
Wow! Really Mara? You’re “blond� Maybe that explains how it is possible that you could have “no idea†that asking if a neighborhood is ‘safe’ is a charged and obnoxious question… not to mention a totally transparent euphemism for asking about race.
But thanx for sending us your e harmony page. I have a much better understanding of your predicament now and in light of this new, really pertinent information about your hair color… (and your self-proclaimed hotness)… You shouldn’t move here. Myself I’m a fairly ordinary looking Brunette… so … I’m cool…
(Oh- and by the way… this blog gets more riled up and cantankerous over the validity of a price drop or an asking price then this.)
maraholly–look at bay rige.