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?
My god, what has this board become. People with vested interests in sending renters to one neighborhood over another will actually troll the message boards to influence the tides of gentrification. It’s gross.
Actually 11:05, just the opposite is true. The gentrifying hipsters like to think they are cool enough to live in the “edgy” nabes. Those of us who are from several generations of brooklynites know it’s idiotic not to recognize danger.
OP: check the brooklynian.com blog for actual accounts of how some break-ins and muggings went down. It’s not just ipods being taken at 3am. It’s people getting beaten to the ground in the afternoon.
I wonder where you people come from? Worrying about some one jacking your ipod???
A gentrifying interloper (White or Black) HOPES someone would not test them. A real Brooklyn representative WISHES someone would.
Trust me, there’s a BIG difference.
Anyone who would ask a bunch of people that they have never met, where they should live is probably too dumb to move anywhere. Also, just so you know,”edge” and “unsafe” mean Black people(oohhh, scary)and since Black people have the ability to cross streets I guess that any area can be “edgy” at any given time.Brooklyn has Black people in all neighbourhoods, and it always will.
original poster: where do you live now, and what are your experiences in cities?
what you can tolerate will depend on your nurturing.
I live in Carroll Gardens and I’m happy that I live in a neighborhood where I can blast my ipod and never think twice about even turning around to survey the area. And I pay a shitload more for that privilege. I probably wouldn’t mind living in an area where I put the pod away before I surfaced from the subway at 3am, and that might be worth saving $500 bucks a month.
But to me, it’s worth it to invest in safety. Sure, anything can happen anywhere, but percentages and rates of crime do matter. I’d toss the white pod headphones anyway, they suck and they scream at people to jack your shit, especially if you look like a hick.
if you are white,look for another area,unless you want to get attacked.
I love the “I knew someone who lived on St James and he said you could hear drug dealers” sort of criticism, from someone who has never even checked out Clinton Hill. It’s not a perfect neighborhood, but it’s vibrant, diverse, and it feels very safe to me.
If you’d rather live in Park Slope, please do.
There are good and bad people everywhere. Lefferts Place has mostly good, where as Park Slope Fort Greene and Carrol Gardens are full of bad, scary, unkempt hairy old lesbians and people from Minnesota.
4:52 is correct that the G train side seems better than the C train side and the park slope/ft greene type restaurants and shops are more in that area. But that side is still definitely not as safe as FG or PS and there are definitely still some sketchy blocks there too.