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It’s not a war zone.
There are some areas that are complete garbage but for the most part it’s average LI burb.
It’s probably spotty more than anything else.
Some blocks you wouldn’t want to leave your house at night while others are well kept and totally safe. There are even a few “wow this is Brentwood?” areas.
Crime is pretty bad but it’s mostly property crime. The murders and violence are pretty much confined to gang related activity.
In my pool business days I did quite a few jobs there, and, many of our employees lived there and I would pick them up/drop them off. Never feared for my life.
You couldn’t pay me to live there though, but you also couldn’t pay me to live in Garden City either.
Seems like Anywhereville, USA to me. I'm not even cherrypicking, I randomly picked these 4 blocks on Google Maps.
There are some homes/streets that look fine in Hempstead and Wyndanch too so what? That doesn’t mean it’s a good area or a “typical” LI neighborhood just because it doesn’t look like the south Bronx circa 1977 doesn’t mean it isn’t a crime ridden, gang infested dump.
A bunch of racist cowards all moved to Brentwood to start a new life. They wanted to live in a place where they too could be racist cowards. They would go into the mom and pop shops and cause a ruckus. Start a second or third place of worship and play loud music. The water tower that read "Brentwood" now read "rentwood". They even voted down the community pool house to start another place of worship. "Safe in my car" became the number one hit song.
The racist cowards also consisted of morons. They rented out the houses to broke morons. The morons had children who listen to rap music and watched Highschool musical too much. The morons never really supported there children or paid attention to what there children studied. The children moved into the city and took welfare jobs as porters and office assistants.
All of the original dizens of Brentwood never knew what was up they got old and carried on there innocent childish ways. There children of Brentwood left because they felt it was not diverse enough with there own age group. Look out Long Island City.
Then god sent a bunch of military police to cast out the minorities and immigrants who was bad and gave the rest of the land of Brentwood to the Jews. Especially after the value of the area crippled to pennies. By this time many of the morons was in Florida, the Carolina's, and Georgia. Recreating the same problem the allowed for god peoples to inherit the mighty land of Pal...I mean Brentwood.
THat is what is going on with Brentwood. It is neighborhood in it's typical final stages of being converted into crow town.
All these morons who claim to want to live in the country side of suburbia are jumping ship and leaving you with a dying neighborhood. That is it. Everybody is milking everybody else income. Wayward daughters, confused sons, oh the humanity
There are some homes/streets that look fine in Hempstead and Wyndanch too so what? That doesn’t mean it’s a good area or a “typical” LI neighborhood just because it doesn’t look like the south Bronx circa 1977 doesn’t mean it isn’t a crime ridden, gang infested dump.
I never said it was a desirable place to live, just that it looks pretty average. Take away the MS-13 problem and it's really not that much different from any other middle American suburb.
Hempstead, in my opinion, looks rougher overall than Brentwood. Brentwood doesn't have any Terrace Ave style places that I know of.
Take away the MS-13 problem and it's really not that much different from any other middle American suburb.
That's kinda like saying take away the toxic waste dump in our backyard and its a normal house. That one problem is a big one. And its foolish to overlook that. It's not like any other middle American suburb. The MS-13 problem is bad. Having several people get murdered in your neighborhood is nothing to overlook. And for that it makes Brentwood a bad neighborhood. Yes, there are worse places but it is one of the 10 worst neighborhoods on LI. If I was in the real-estate business I'd use the same quote you used to lure in unsuspecting people.
It is like any other town on Long Island, in that property TAXES are outrageous.
Actually even that is incorrect. The lousy area has even influenced taxes. Looking at the most expensive homes currently for sale right now (which don’t even go over 500k), the taxes are well below 10k per year, which is definitely not the norm for houses in nicer areas at the same price point.
The area is garbage and has the taxes to show for it.
Actually even that is incorrect. The lousy area has even influenced taxes. Looking at the most expensive homes currently for sale right now (which don’t even go over 500k), the taxes are well below 10k per year, which is definitely not the norm for houses in nicer areas at the same price point.
The area is garbage and has the taxes to show for it.
It looks as though some of the homes are owned by older people (vinyl wrapped furniture) and the lower taxes are a reflection upon the long time ownership. The newer stuff appears to be higher, but no where near as high as they would be in a "good" area. Then again, there is a lot of commercial property in the area. I wonder if that has any effect on helping keep the taxes a little lower?
It looks as though some of the homes are owned by older people (vinyl wrapped furniture) and the lower taxes are a reflection upon the long time ownership. The newer stuff appears to be higher, but no where near as high as they would be in a "good" area. Then again, there is a lot of commercial property in the area. I wonder if that has any effect on helping keep the taxes a little lower?
Since when are high property taxes something to brag about anyway? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Brentwood's property taxes would be considered very high for most of the country.
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