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I checked out a pad in Astoria and really dug the neighborhood, especially as it's my first time living in NYC. Unfortunately, it fell through, and I need to find something relatively soon.
I'm checking out a room for rent in a place on the corner of Morgan and Flushing. Having been nowhere in BK other than Williamsburg, what can I expect from this area in terms of safety, or lack thereof?
That district has a lot of industrial buildings, low rise warehouses, and a few apt buildings and a lot of lofts. Very hipster-friendly, as iamserge mentioned, and a lot of cool bars and things like that in the area. A bit on the sketchy side, since there are housing projects a few blocks away, but for the most part the area would be full of students, young hipsters, artists, etc....
you'll be totally fine in that area, it's not really "bushwick" as much as it is "east williamsburg".
lots of hipsters, there's a natural foods store a few blocks from your apartment, etc.
Morgan and Flushing is most definitely Bushwick.
There never really was an East Williamsburg until about 10 years ago when the Real Estate people decided they could jack up the prices if they could make Williamsburg bigger so they started using the term East Williamsburg to make Bushwick sound more acceptable.
But even then, the eastern edge of the newly minted "East Williamsburg" was/is Bushwick Avenue. Beyond that, going East on Flushing,you are definitely deep into Bushwick. Unless someone decided to expand Williamsburg even more in the last couple of years as the real estate fever was reaching it's peak.
Before we know it there will be no more Brooklyn at all! Williamsburg will be expanded all the way east to Nassau County and South to the Atlantic.
Ugly area, it's all industrial. It's not as residential or commercial as Astoria, so don't expect that. Hot, humid summer nights you might smell the creek and the garbage being unloaded from the trucks around the corner on Morgan Ave. Still some remnants of sketchy folks in the area but your close to the subway if you frequent the city.
There never really was an East Williamsburg until about 10 years ago when the Real Estate people decided they could jack up the prices if they could make Williamsburg bigger so they started using the term East Williamsburg to make Bushwick sound more acceptable.
But even then, the eastern edge of the newly minted "East Williamsburg" was/is Bushwick Avenue. Beyond that, going East on Flushing,you are definitely deep into Bushwick. Unless someone decided to expand Williamsburg even more in the last couple of years as the real estate fever was reaching it's peak.
Before we know it there will be no more Brooklyn at all! Williamsburg will be expanded all the way east to Nassau County and South to the Atlantic.
He's not saying that it IS East Williamsburg, but rather that the area resembles Williamsburg more so than Bushwick.
I checked out a pad in Astoria and really dug the neighborhood, especially as it's my first time living in NYC. Unfortunately, it fell through, and I need to find something relatively soon.
I'm checking out a room for rent in a place on the corner of Morgan and Flushing. Having been nowhere in BK other than Williamsburg, what can I expect from this area in terms of safety, or lack thereof?
Thanks!
Lots of drug activity, lots of dominicans, lots of good food, 15-20 homicides a year, You should be fine though.
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