I write to request insights and advice from the Bedford Stuyvesant residents. My husband, baby, and I started visiting open houses in the area last weekend (on Hancock between Tompkins and Malcolm X and Bainbridge near Stuyvesant) and we fell in love with the neighborhood. The homes are gorgeous, the people are nice, we felt good. Well, most of the people are nice. We stopped to ask one resident what they like about the area and were told that we absolutely cannot live there, that there are shootings every day, and that we could not let our baby play in the backyard because he would probably get shot. While I believe that this person was a little loopy, this was unnerving, to say the least.
\nI understand that Bedford Stuyvesant may not be Bedford Falls \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and think that’s good. But how worried do I need to be about my family’s safety if we move in? My husband works late hours sometimes, and I now worry about him driving home at 11PM. And I worry about my little man, too.
\nYour thoughts on this subject are greatly appreciated. I have read many prior posts on this issue, but would really like to hear from you. Thanks so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I write to request insights and advice from the Bedford Stuyvesant residents. My husband, baby, and I started visiting open houses in the area last weekend (on Hancock between Tompkins and Malcolm X and Bainbridge near Stuyvesant) and we fell in love with the neighborhood. The homes are gorgeous, the people are nice, we felt…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55695,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-45244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quality_of_life"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/06\/the-bedstuy-saf\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Bed-Stuy Safety Question. Again","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/06\/the-bedstuy-saf\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/06\/the-bedstuy-saf\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Quality of Life","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"bklou"}],"creator":["bklou"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-06-14T09:43:13Z","datePublished":"2010-06-14T09:43:13Z","dateModified":"2010-06-14T09:49:37Z"},"rendered":"