Brooklyn Advice (E. Flatbush?)

[Joe Bama!]

Originally Posted by ecraw

The white guy in bensonhurst would have to be an out of town liberal type. No native white new yorker would live there. The olde bensonhurst was great. You don't have too many neighborhoods like that anymore. I don't think it was so much racism, rather that we wanted to keep our nabe from becoming another bed stuy. I'm probably older than most of you.I can remember when everyone in bensonhurst knew eachother. If not,they knew your aunt,uncle,or sister. Nyc has changed so much it's awful.I think half of bensonhurst moved to staten island. East flatbush hasn't been a nice area in decades. Flatbush was once all Jewish and very nice. The people got out of there fast when they saw the direction it was going.

I'm a native white new yorker from Bensonhurst and I live in Flatbush.

[TunaBoy]

Originally Posted by ecraw

Btw, who is biggie smalls?

a late rapper(hiphop) from bed-stuy

[LiveChick]

There is nothing wrong with Flatbush ? Whats with the bashing.
It's not a perfect neighborhood, but what 'hoods are perfect.

I see to much generalizing in this thread. Especially from ecraw

[hominamad]

Screw reputations and perceptions. Go to the statistics themselves and the answer is there. There is no comparison to the crime levels in Bensonhurst/Bay Ridge compare to E Flatush. Here's the NYPD 2008 felonies stats for all the polie pcts in the city. I won't take the time to point out all the neighborhood precincts but E. Flatbush is one of the worst in the city for felonies and is more than double Bay Ridge or Bensonhurst. I didn't even check other types of crimes:
http://gis.nyc.gov/ops/mmr/pdftables/FELON.pdf
My Neighborhood Statistics - Welcome

That being said, I've lived in Park Slope for 10 years and was robbed at gunpoint once. But that doesn't mean Park Slope is as crime ridden as E Flatbush just because I experienced it. Yes crime exists everywhere but not to the same extent.

[Mila1021]

Originally Posted by brooklynight

East Flatbush is primarily a Caribbean neighborhood. I heard the crime rate was high but when I went through there I saw nice houses and the area looked a lot safer than the one I came from.

Well I live right in the heart of E. Flatbush. I live on 21 an regent. Which is the most dangerous block in Flatbush...
It is a caribbean neighborhood, but dont get fooled by that. Its extremlly dangerous out here. even though i know soooooo muuccchhhh people out here (crips, bloods, folk...) i still dont risk it at certain times. Theres many crimes, lots of homicides, and fighting. If your white makes it worst, even though I have absolutly nothing against white people but many of them out here do.

[carmabelle]

Sadly it's the demographics that moved into that area that have turned a nice area into Dodge City.
They will be the ruin of Brooklyn.