How do you feel about the new Barclays Center being built in Brooklyn? (New York: neighborhood, property tax)
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Since I know nothing about Brooklyn beyond its bad rap for crime, I feel the need to ask this.
Will the area around the new Barclays Center be safe for event-goers?
I heard Crowne Heights and Red Hook are places in Brooklyn that one should avoid.
That's one of the most stunning generalizations I've ever had the misfortune to read!
Barclay's Center will be located in downtown Brooklyn--it certainly won't be any less safe than going to Madison Square Garden!
Rule of thumb: just because someone (or even several someones) says something bad about a neighborhood--let alone an entire borough--doesn't mean you should accept it as fact.
I would avoid Red Hook because of the IKEA, but that's about it
I have a strong feeling that the person your responding to will have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, though I agree with you... lol
Now, in terms of the surrounding area around the stadium... That area is a regular working class mixed area... It used to be a bad area but cleaned up alot in recent years... There are still some shady elements to the area without question but like someone else said on here it's no more dangerous than going to Madison Square Garden where you will see people coming from all different areas of this city...
How do you feel about the new Barclays Center being built in Brooklyn
The real question should be: How do you feel about the state exploiting eminent domain to take private homes and business in an area it deems "blighted" in the name of building a sports and entertainment arena?
The real question should be: How do you feel about the state exploiting eminent domain to take private homes and business in an area it deems "blighted" in the name of building a sports and entertainment arena?
This is a little off-topic, but I find it pretty peculiar and pertinent to this discussion.
A few months ago, I had to send a FedEx package to JFK Airport. Customer service at JFK told me to send the package to "Jamaica, New York".
They told me NOT to address the package to "Queens, New York" or "Long Island, New York".
I thought that was pretty odd at the time, as I thought that there wouldn't be any difference.
"Jamaica, NY" is the correct name of an official postal city. Neither "Queens, NY" nor "Long Island, NY" are the correct name of an official postal city.
Nevertheless, the USPS has sort of given up on demanding the correct postal city/town to be used in a mailing address, and will now accept and deliver mail to any address as long as the street address and ZIP Code postal zone are correct.
That's because in many areas of New York State, as well as the country as a whole, the problem of non-conforming postal zones leads to a situation where the majority of places have a different community name in their mailing address than the community where that place is actually located.
That explains why the majority of addresses in New York City are not "New York, NY".
That explains why the majority of addresses in New York City are not "New York, NY".
It has nothing to do with why other locales within NYC (i.e. the outer boroughs) don't use it. "New York, NY" has always been synonymous with the borough of Manhattan/New York county. The majority of Brooklyn simply uses "Brooklyn, NY", while many neighborhoods in Queens seem to use neighborhood or postal designations (e.g. Jamaica, Bayside, Astoria, Ridgewood), but as you suggest, this is essentially redundant these days as the USPS is now relying on zipcode+street address alone.
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