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Yeah I only had a few options, and Adams didn't accept me. I remember a shooting happening outside Lane right at the Elderts Lane station by students shortly after I started High School in 2003 so I was thankful I was at least able to go to a decent high school [at the time].
Yea... Lane was pretty bad... But I'm surprised that you being a graduate of 07' didn't hear about the shooting that killed 1 or 2 students I believe during 03 or 04' with the kid that had an axe to grind with his teacher who failed him and so he decided to just shoot up the place during summer school... They had the choppers searching for the kid after the incident happened... Also during that time, before the cameras were put in place there was alot of stabbings in that school... I went back there for a year to work as a sub briefly and the teachers use to fill me in on the stories...
Personally, living in the neighborhood, being a member of the faculty and being a graduate of the school and also being a teacher at John Adams, I feel safer at Adams than I do at Cleveland... I don't know why but it just seems like the bad students at Adams while there's more of them, aren't as bad as the thugs from Cleveland that act like they've got something to prove all the time...
Me and my mother felt the same way when up in Flushing and found out it's all Chinese with the exception of a few other minority . There was a lot of Chinese writing everywhere and I felt like I was in Hong Kong again because I went there in the Military .
It was very run down as well , and to think my mom tells me Flushing was beautiful at one time with different minority . My Godmother explained her theory of what turns an all white neighborhood into Chinese , African American etc .. : Someone decides to sell there house or the house of their parents that passed away or go into a nursing home .
They don't care who to sell the house to because they don't want the headaches and just want to sell it to whoever and collect the money . Before you know it , more and more different ethnic groups move in and it changes .
Flushing is not run down at all. I live there now, and most of it is very low crime and quiet. And the best dim sum I've ever had! Just because there aren't many white people doesn't mean it's a bad neighborhood. It is a thriving middle class chinese neighborhood. I honestly have never once seen any crime here in the year I've lived here. And I'm italian american, in case you're wondering.
Flushing is not run down at all. I live there now, and most of it is very low crime and quiet. And the best dim sum I've ever had! Just because there aren't many white people doesn't mean it's a bad neighborhood. It is a thriving middle class chinese neighborhood. I honestly have never once seen any crime here in the year I've lived here. And I'm italian american, in case you're wondering.
I would much rather live in Flushing then Ozone Park. I go to Main Street all the time.
How safe is the area around Aqueduct/N. Conduit A train station? I just started working in NYC. Would take the train in at 7am and usually back by 6pm, but sometimes as late as 9:30/10pm. Any issues with parking/car break-ins near this station? Thanks
How safe is the area around Aqueduct/N. Conduit A train station? I just started working in NYC. Would take the train in at 7am and usually back by 6pm, but sometimes as late as 9:30/10pm. Any issues with parking/car break-ins near this station? Thanks
That is probably the best section of the neighborhood if you ask me. It's ok.
I lived in the Ozone Park section of Queens from 1975 to 2004 when I left to live in Rockaway after I got married. I enjoyed the area in which I lived, which was on 149th Avenue near JHS 202. The area at the time from 1975 to about 1998 was still Italian American with other white ethnics such as polish, Irish, etc., and there was growing number in 1998 of Hispanic and Indian residents. The Indian residents as I can remember lived near City Line and around 101st Avenue. My questions are this:
1. Is the area still retaining a sizeable Italian American population?
2. Is it still low crime?
3. If you had to guess what is the percentage of residents that are Non-hispanic white?
I'm too lazy to read through this entire thread, so here goes:
I lived in Ozone Park my whole life. I moved out of the area in 1997 after I got married. The neighborhood was already changing and my husband and I decided we didn't want to stay anymore.
Is the neighborhood still Italian? Absolutely not. The Italians, Polish, Germans are few. Ozone Park is now mostly West Indie/ Guyanese. The smell of Sunday sauce in the air is gone. Homes are now coral pink and have gates on the windows. Liberty Ave is nothing but 99 cent stores, Sari stores, Guyanese, Paki and Indian ethic related stores. I lived there for 27 years and I feel like I am intruding my old neighborhood. I go there only because my parents still live there. It's still a safe area but now with the casino at the Aquaduct, I see a potential for crime to increase. There are still hispanic families but a small percentage, I would say.
3 years ago I bought a house in Franklin Square. It reminded me of the Ozone Park I grew up in. Pork stores, bakeries, pasta shops, the smell of sauce...
Is the neighborhood still Italian? Absolutely not. The Italians, Polish, Germans are few. Ozone Park is now mostly West Indie/ Guyanese. The smell of Sunday sauce in the air is gone. Homes are now coral pink and have gates on the windows. Liberty Ave is nothing but 99 cent stores, Sari stores, Guyanese, Paki and Indian ethic related stores. I lived there for 27 years and I feel like I am intruding my old neighborhood. I go there only because my parents still live there. It's still a safe area but now with the casino at the Aquaduct, I see a potential for crime to increase. There are still hispanic families but a small percentage, I would say.
The whole neighborhood, especially by Liberty Avenue, reeks of curry now. That smell is enough to make any ethnic group that isn't Indian/Guyanese flee.
That is probably the best section of the neighborhood if you ask me. It's ok.
I'd be very careful now with the casino open. I know people who have had their car windows busted.
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