New York Areas

[scatman]

Originally Posted by Freak

1) Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

2) East New York.

3) South Bronx.

4) Jamaica, Queens.

1) I personally don't think Bed-Stuy is as bad as people say it is (I grew up there, so I know!). It's just that if you are deep in the heart, then you have issues with closeness to trains, supermarkets and banks (translation: Fulton Street).

2) Unfortunately, I gotta agree.

3) I know SB has the rep, but I'm seeing a few sprinkle of whites get on at 3rd Avenue-138th Street (6 Train).

4) Nice one-family houses in Southeast Queens. A few in foreclosure.

[scatman]

Originally Posted by clubBR

Avoid Uptown above 125th on the west side and 96th on the east side.
Avoid the Lower East Side.
Avoid Times Square at night.
Avoid Chinatown at night.

Also avoid all public housing.

Be prepared to pay an arm and a leg.

Above 125th......That's gonna be my next investment!

LES.....The developers, bar and club owners don't agree!

Times Square.......With all them cops on the deuce?????

Chinatown.......only avoid Chinatown due to the garbage. However, some good Chinese restaurants are open after midnight!

[Freak]

3) I know SB has the rep, but I'm seeing a few sprinkle of whites get on at 3rd Avenue-138th Street (6 Train).

Port Morris is somewhat gentrifying, but I'm not sure about any other neighborhood in the South Bronx.

[Hustla718]

Originally Posted by Freak

Port Morris is somewhat gentrifying, but I'm not sure about any other neighborhood in the South Bronx.

It's two blocks on the west side. The neighborhood of Port Morris completely vacated years ago thanks to a lack of services. Now the yuppies moved into that area. The industry is still active though so that limits the gentrification and the rest of the South Bronx is one giant housing project with all the affordable low income housing.

The rest is the ghetto. You go to eastern Port Morris and you will see the zombies from all the homeless shelters on Willow Ave. Go north past the highway and the drug dealers line the building lobbies of the projects.

****ty area. Crime, run down, no services.

[NewYorkerGal]

Williamsburg is also getting pretty bad but also pretty trendy. That's too bad because it's like 2 minutes from Manhattan over the bridge..

[straightshooter]

Originally Posted by NewYorkerGal

Williamsburg is also getting pretty bad but also pretty trendy. That's too bad because it's like 2 minutes from Manhattan over the bridge..

yeah. williamsburg is wack. anything off bedford and around N7 is gonna be City prices. south williamsburg is a hole, although there is a money bbq place down that way, fette sau...AWESOME. my favorite is "east williamsburg." HAHHHAAAAHA. i think the developers get away with that because the williamsburg project houses are there. BUSHWICK, PEOPLE, BUSHWICK. you know...the joint that had the local high school taken over by the state b/c it was so horrible.