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Not a Brooklyn native but from hanging there I'd have to say IN GENERAL these areas are hoods, where the high crime is pervasive throughout.
Top of the list - Brownsville/Ocean Hill, get off at Ralph and walk down Buffalo Ave. That is classic hood - empty lots, run down apt buildings, scary projects, closed hospital building and the only bodega having plexiglass and selling sugarwater and chips. Getting off near the end of Eastern Parkway - Ocean Hill, is deceptive, some brownstones which vary in their care but historically high crime. As for Brownsville, there are stable spots that don't seem that hoodish. The shopping around Pitkin is not that different from decent shopping districts along Jamiaca Ave in Southeast Queens. And the houses off Pitkin are well maintained and at least during the day seems pretty low key.
Now we come to East New York, a very very deceptive place. There are sections that could pass for leafy suburbanish sections of Elmhurst and Jackson Heights or even a few spots of Astoria - these are areas near on the city's parks and public pools (well you could tell there was something off as the lifeguards just let the seagulls swim in the pool along with kids!). Yet there are small desolate sections of warehouses and huge fares with people hanging around waiting for action. In both areas there have been surges of violent crime.
Actually Sunset Park west of the 4th Ave can get sketchy.
I'd say Crown Heights is no longer a hood as Prospect Heights, Park Slope have gotten expensive enough that is the next nabe people are looking for with excellent housing stock and train lines nearby.
Bed Sty - depends. Not all of it is high crime area. the Bedford Ave area is a hood, the historic district off Fulton is not and is rather lively with the perf arts center. It still has a ways to go to become "hip".
Small portions of Carnarsie can be hood - Bayview Houses and the Pier are rather depressing.
Good deal of Bushwick is still hood with the gentrification happening close to Williamsburg.
Clinton Hill is not a hood --- again maybe a few portions by Lafayette Houses that's it. Oh, maybe the Pratt institute area has had a history of high crime in the past. Not sure now.
East Flatbush - I'd say very schizoid. You can go thru some sections where the housing stock is falling apart and think you are in some very sketchy section of Philly or Baltimore. So yeah some mini hoods there. I'd say it is the worst neighborhood to get lost due to this reason.
Finally not all of Northeast Bklyn is hood - one small area City Line the nabe that borders Nassau County is quiet suburbanish area, no high crime. There is no reason to visit there unless you are going to someone who lives there.
@SUPERCHIC this is the point I was trying to make all along!!!! You guys keep saying this place and that place are "hoods" because crime happens there...Crime happens everywhere especially in brooklyn so what is The entire borough of Brooklyn a "hood"? Anything could happen to someone at any time but you hope for the best try not to get yourself in trouble...if you want to be totally safe then don't come to Brooklyn and stay on the Upper West Side!!!
I can't imagine what some of you guys would think about some of these neighborhoods 15-20 years ago because these neighborhoods are like wall street compared to what they were back then
I saw a motorcycle get stolen right in front of Brooklyn College. These 2 people just got out of a van and dragged a motorcycle into their van.
Do you remember anything about the van the bike was taken in? My bike was stolen yesterday right from in front of the security booth next to the crosswalk. i left it there for 20 minutes and it was gone. Of course the security guards didnt see anything and there are no cameras there.
Isn't everyone immediately suspicious of a thread that starts with, "I have a friend..." It's never the person in question who desperately needs to know something; they're always asking for this mysterious, unspecified "friend." Or, in extreme cases, a mysterious and unspecified FOAF (friend of a friend).
What about that crazy huge amount of projects near rockaway & mother gaston in brownsville?? i know it has a pretty bad rep but, just like Claremont Village in the BX with the Butler/webster houses etc, i gotta admit that it always amaze me how the hell anybody could have honestly believe that throwing that much people in such small areas could have turned into something good...still causes me headache sometimes..
Williamsburg is not hood at all! Red Hook is hardly a bad neighborhood. Prospect Park is not the name of a neighborhood, it's the name of a park, and a fairly safe one at that. Bushwick used to be kinda bad but it's improving rapidly. You're crazy, kid. Most of these areas are very safe. And you didn't even mention East New York, one of the worst neighborhoods in the city!
Isn't everyone immediately suspicious of a thread that starts with, "I have a friend..." It's never the person in question who desperately needs to know something; they're always asking for this mysterious, unspecified "friend." Or, in extreme cases, a mysterious and unspecified FOAF (friend of a friend).
I like how on forums discussing illegal stuff, they use "SWIM": someone who isn't me. "SWIM would like to know how to shoot heroin." bahahahaha
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