Atlantic Terminal Mall

[Fred314X]

By the way, the moment you start asking if this neighborhood or that location is "safe," you should know automatically that you're not going to feel safe there. It means you have predetermined worries or fears, and no matter what anyone tells you, you'll be looking back over your shoulder every other minute.

Safety is a subjective thing. If you don't feel safe there, you're not safe. And if you do feel safe, then stop worrying.

[Gantz]

Originally Posted by forum_browser

12-13 years ago when I lived in Park Slope we went to that mall and never had a problem.

The Atlantic Terminal Mall building didn't exist 12 years ago. Its a fairly new building which was opened in 2004.

I am near that area a lot, and the main problem is all the construction dust in the air from the arena.

[NooYowkur81]

I was just around there the other day because I met up with my sis for lunch and she works around there. Looked fine to me. Nothing a true bred Noo Yowkur wouldn't be able to handle...

[forum_browser]

They may not have called it the Atlantic Terminal Mall, and it did not contain a Target, but there was absolutely a mall in that location, about a block from the LIRR.

[moccawaii]

Originally Posted by HellUpInHarlem

the real change will come when the stadium is built. but as being a white girl in downtown bk in the middle of the night, i would advise AGAINST walking out in public at night without an escort. lunatics are in every hood, no matter what the income or class bracket. you never know, you might run into one.

I'm black and I would feel just as unsafe, if not more (in some situations) walking alone in downtown brooklyn at night. Honestly...

The most I've seen is the occasional head turn for the majority of white ladies, but then I get spoken to on the train, followed, called out at all times of day because people think I'll talk back. Your safety also depends on your attractiveness, how much you're wearing, how much you're paying attention, and how sober you are. So, don't walk around drunk, using your phone while listening to music and strutting your scantily-clad stuff at 2AM unless you want to take a cab/live near the train station. Stay alert & walk with purpose and you'll be fine.

Anyway, everyone needs to really stop this "is it safe?" stuff and just go look at these places for themselves. Don't move somewhere without seeing if it's a good fit for you (or at least if you can adapt to it). Yeah, there are rowdy kids in the area, but they're only crazy with each other. None of them are going to harass you. You're working at the mall, for god's sake. What would you have on-hand that they'd want if they even wanted to bother you? I'm sure you'll be fine, and if anything you'll develop a thick skin and get a look at another type of life. Most ghetto people aren't even bad people, they just have their insane moments when they're angry.

TL;DR: I live across the street from the mall and go there a few times every month. I've never had an issue.

[neotextist]

Originally Posted by BK1981

I am a native of Brooklyn who also studied and lived in Manhattan for many years (I went to fame HS). I since have lived in my home town of Brooklyn and I become sick to my stomach when I hear or read comments like this. How dare you think that just because you are "petite and white" that you are a target! Any fool that wonders any city late at night is a target. It has nothing to do with RACE! And victims of any kind have rights that should be respected by us all.
NEWS FLASH: you at talking about the Forte Greene section of Brooklyn where the dominant race living there is WHITE. Not only are the apartments waaaay more expensive in some cases than those in mid-town (where I studied dance for 20 years) but if you took a moment from sticking your head in the sand and looked up you would see all of the freaking condos and the Barclays center that price out every store over there.
I find it so disgusting that you think "some people" (black) automatically have it out for you. How sad! It's people like me who go out of my way to speak to all of the White people that have moved in to my neighborhood of BED-STUY (where brownstones have always started at $2.1 mil+, of which my family owned six since the 1950s) people who otherwise wouldn't give me the time of day for fear that a "jungle bunny" like me (who is a college grad with a family and her own business) may jump out from behind a tree and kidnap you. Get off you high horse.

Great post.

I've been to this mall several times during the day and night, and have never had a problem or witnessed anything to cause me worry. The worst problem I've encountered were the empty shelves at Target, and the rowdiest kids I've seen were at the Chuck E. Cheese.

[queensgrl]

Keep your head forward and walk with confidence no matter what your race or age. The safety factor often has to do with not looking vulnerable. I was a petite 13 y.o. riding subway trains when things were a lot more dangerous than they are now. Get about your business, move swiftly and move away from people who look troublesome.

I avoid the school bell time because even if they're not up to trouble, the kids are just noisy and annoying.

[BK1981]

Originally Posted by jad2k

LOL, oh just wait until you start digging in some of the other posts about Bed Stuy, Clinton Hill, etc. You'd think black people actually eat white people with the way some of these "is it safe" questions are phrased.

By the way, the Brownstones in Bed Stuy aren't at the $2MM mark yet. Fully restored ones with lots of historic detail could probably fetch around $1MM these days...maybe a couple hundred thousand more if in the land marked areas or western edge.

Wow. And yes, you are right about the brownstone price point ; )

[singer2]

Just because you never had any harassment from stupid kids doesn't mean you never will and I mean anywhere. Just take a gang of kids and add stupid **** like drugs or booze into the factor..................we ought to go back to Prohibition and this time it ought to be enforced!