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Can I get some more information about this neighborhood? This neighborhood seems to be one of the last safe neighborhoods with affordable housing, which is why my mother is looking into this neighborhood. How are the people? Would my family and I fit in? We are Asian Americans (Chinese) and this neighborhood seems to be predominately white. Also, are the neighborhoods bordering Marine Park from the North and East safe? I know Midwood and Sheepshead Bay from the West are good neighborhoods but how about the area north of Flatlands Avenue and east of Flatbush Avenue? Is it safe to live close to the park or rather further? Please let me know more, thank you!
It is mostly white though I think you would be fine. Most of the neighborhood is pretty safe, IMO.
It has a very suburban feel and it feels far from most things---unless you're not too far from Flatbush. It's a bit of a hike if you need to travel into the city.
Marine Park is a great area. It is largely white, but you would be far from the only Asian family in the area, particularly if you're closer to the Sheepshead Bay border. Marine Park really isn't an insular community or anything.
The area north and east is Flatlands, which is typically regarded as safe. The part of Flatlands that borders Marine Park to the East is the best part of Flatlands, its really quiet and residential. Further north where Flatlands borders East Flatbush, it gets rougher but still not unsafe by any means.
As edubz mentioned, transit is lacking. No walkable train stations. You'd need to take one of the few buses to either Ave U or Kingshighway on the Q line. You'd be better off if you drive.
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Good area but "Outside Savages" are definitely there. Could you imagine if that was your kid getting a loaded gun pointed at his/her head? SMH
First link was about a horrible incident that happened over ten years ago - "Marine Park is a quiet middle class neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY.
However, in the afternoon of March 30, 2005 it became a scene of one of the most brutal racist attacks.
According to New York Daily News, "It was as plain as black and white. It was a hate crime. When 30 black teenagers from Marine Park Middle School, most of them girls, chased five white girls from St. Edmund's off a Marine Park basketball court and across a Brooklyn street”punching, kicking, slapping, pulling hair and screaming, honky *******, black power and white crackers” it was a racial attack. It was about hate."
Police officers who responded to the scene on March 30, at approximately 4 p.m., arrested five of the attacking teenagers. They were charged with simple assault."
Chalk it up to ignorance that was still very present 10 years ago. Not so much now.
Second link occurred in Mill Basin not in Marine Park. It also happened in 2013.
Third Link was a Wikipedia article about the first link which again occurred over ten years ago.
Fourth link is the only one that occurred in Marine Park proper this year. Here's the main part of the article: "The victims, who range in age from 15 to 18 years old, were hanging out in the park around 10:40pm when they were approached by three black men, one armed with a gun, who demanded the teens hand over their belongings, according to the NYPD. The suspects fled with two iPhones, a debit card, identification and an undetermined amount of money, police say."
"Young kids hanging out late at a park find trouble" should be the title. Additionally, seeing as how Norwoodboy had to look for incidents in neighboring areas as well as links from over a decade ago to discuss the "savages" that apparently run rampant in the area, I'm assuming there are no other scary crime stories for the year...
@ Norwood, I know you were probably hoping the scary headlines would be enough and nobody would care to open up the links. I'll make sure the next time someone asks about your neighborhood to bring up the mafia incidents of the 70s as a reason why they shouldn't move into the neighborhood. It's clearly still relevant...
First link was about a horrible incident that happened over ten years ago - "Marine Park is a quiet middle class neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY.
However, in the afternoon of March 30, 2005 it became a scene of one of the most brutal racist attacks.
According to New York Daily News, "It was as plain as black and white. It was a hate crime. When 30 black teenagers from Marine Park Middle School, most of them girls, chased five white girls from St. Edmund's off a Marine Park basketball court and across a Brooklyn street”punching, kicking, slapping, pulling hair and screaming, honky *******, black power and white crackers” it was a racial attack. It was about hate."
Police officers who responded to the scene on March 30, at approximately 4 p.m., arrested five of the attacking teenagers. They were charged with simple assault."
Chalk it up to ignorance that was still very present 10 years ago. Not so much now.
Second link occurred in Mill Basin not in Marine Park. It also happened in 2013.
Third Link was a Wikipedia article about the first link which again occurred over ten years ago.
Fourth link is the only one that occurred in Marine Park proper this year. Here's the main part of the article: "The victims, who range in age from 15 to 18 years old, were hanging out in the park around 10:40pm when they were approached by three black men, one armed with a gun, who demanded the teens hand over their belongings, according to the NYPD. The suspects fled with two iPhones, a debit card, identification and an undetermined amount of money, police say."
"Young kids hanging out late at a park find trouble" should be the title. Additionally, seeing as how Norwoodboy had to look for incidents in neighboring areas as well as links from over a decade ago to discuss the "savages" that apparently run rampant in the area, I'm assuming there are no other scary crime stories for the year...
@ Norwood, I know you were probably hoping the scary headlines would be enough and nobody would care to open up the links. I'll make sure the next time someone asks about your neighborhood to bring up the mafia incidents of the 70s as a reason why they shouldn't move into the neighborhood. It's clearly still relevant...
Your 100% wrong. Look at where the incidents happen then tell me if it was Marine Park
Smash-and-grab, armed robbery at Marine Park mall
THE SHACK Updated: Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 2:29 PM ======= LOOK at DATE.
Yes, I know that Rhodes Scholar but it's within Marine Park. It's the mall where people who reside in that area would shop in.
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