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crown heights is filled with crime. Im pretty sure you know that right?? It has every ghetto aspect in it.
also eastern crown heights doesnt look much different from Brownsville, especially when you drive past utica and head towards Rochester/Buffalo/ralph ave.
Hartford, CT is both the state's capital and the poorest and most dangerous city in the US. Followed closely in crime by New Haven, CT, home of Yale.
I felt more unsafe and knew of more attacks and violent crime in my year living in Columbus, Ohio than in all my many years living in "gritty" neighborhoods in LA, San Francisco and (especially) NYC. In fact, NYC seems to be the safest place I've ever lived. I live near ave C (for many, many years) but I'm talking about anecdotal evidence and reporting as well. Also, I'm about to move to Clinton Hill. My take, it ain't hood. Bed Stuy is part hood, part not. That said, if you live in the PJs it's different. They're like mini-islands no matter where you are. and there are PJs in Park Slope, Boerum Hill, and of course my neighborhood. I'm not disparaging those who live in them.
their are no projects in park slope..
my ex girlfriend just moved to new haven about 2 weeks ago. The people she have up their aren't rich or middle class(more like working class). But she claims she is happy that she left the ghettos of nyc, and was shocked when i told her that New haven actually has a higher rate of crime.
she is still used to hearing about a murder everyday on the news back home to nyc, and like most people she doesn't know what murder stats are.
nyc is massive compared to these CT cities so its matter of where you live actually.
btw clinton hill isnt the hood but it has a lot of spill over crime from next door neighbor brownsville.
and the forte green projects(walt whitman/ingersoll houses) are a hell hole, but the whole area as a whole its pretty good.
remsen village is just something that the map shows, but in reality their is not 1 person who uses it. As a matter of fact i am positive most people living in remsen village don't even know its called remsen village.
the biggest argument with the 90z is if its Brownsville or east flatbush.
growing up most people i met who lived on rutland/winthrop/clarkson claimed brownsville. My ex girlfriend was actually the first person i met who hates people who refer the 90z as being part of brownsville. theirs also a rapper named flawless from rutland plaza who also refers rutland as being a east flatbush hood.
I even know this kid on ave A and east 96th who swears he lives in canarsie.
90s is East Flatbush
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crown heights is filled with crime. Im pretty sure you know that right?? It has every ghetto aspect in it.
also eastern crown heights doesnt look much different from Brownsville, especially when you drive past utica and head towards Rochester/Buffalo/ralph ave.
The area of Crown Heights that link is for is actually fine. Crown Heights is a big neighborhood, with good areas and bad areas.
Hartford, CT is both the state's capital and the poorest and most dangerous city in the US. Followed closely in crime by New Haven, CT, home of Yale.
I felt more unsafe and knew of more attacks and violent crime in my year living in Columbus, Ohio than in all my many years living in "gritty" neighborhoods in LA, San Francisco and (especially) NYC. In fact, NYC seems to be the safest place I've ever lived. I live near ave C (for many, many years) but I'm talking about anecdotal evidence and reporting as well. Also, I'm about to move to Clinton Hill. My take, it ain't hood. Bed Stuy is part hood, part not. That said, if you live in the PJs it's different. They're like mini-islands no matter where you are. and there are PJs in Park Slope, Boerum Hill, and of course my neighborhood. I'm not disparaging those who live in them.
If this is true... This only reaffirms for me that those stats are bogus and mean absolutely nothing... I've been to New Haven and Hartford and to me, while Hartford was slightly worse neither one of those felt as bad as parts of Bridgeport... Furthermore, to compare a city of 100,000 with a city of 8 million is idiotic... Of course New Haven and Hartford have more per capita crime... they're population is about 2% of NYC's population... Passing through those blocks though, none of them felt shady to me at all... It was one of the quietest hoods i've ever seen... Also with New Haven, a good chunk of that area isn't even hood and is majority middle class... Only parts of it are "ok"... Worse part of the whole area was what they talk about as "The jungle" but in recent years supposedly it's been cleaned up... That was the only area where I felt... Ok, keep your guard up here... Other than that, that hood was tame as hell...
Hartford, CT is both the state's capital and the poorest and most dangerous city in the US. Followed closely in crime by New Haven, CT, home of Yale.
Poorest and most dangerous city in the US? Absolutely false. Just off the top of my heads these cities are more dangerous (and quite possibly more poor than Hartford):
Camden, NJ
Gary, IN
Richmond, CA
Flint, MI
St. Louis, MO
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South side BK- Coney Island, Gravsend ( as long as you stay out of the Projects in both these areas you should be good)
Dude, I live in Gravesend, and it's nowhere close to being a "'Hood" it's nothing but multimillion dollar homes and a few old school garden apartments. It is a majority Russian & Jewish Neighborhood with some long term Italian residents who have not left for Staten Island or New Jersey like most of the rest have done.
East New York and Bud-Stuy would be the closest to being what you are looking for, East New York borders the Ozone Park section of Queens near City Line, around the Grant Ave stop on the A train is the border between Brooklyn & Queens.
Poorest and most dangerous city in the US? Absolutely false. Just off the top of my heads these cities are more dangerous (and quite possibly more poor than Hartford):
Camden, NJ
Gary, IN
Richmond, CA
Flint, MI
St. Louis, MO
The interesting thing is that Richmond, CA has a crime rate over double the national average, but its income is actually pretty high. It's $55,558, so it's actually a little higher than NYC (though the per capita income was a little lower). So it's almost like a higher-crime version of NYC. Even the demographics aren't too far off. It's just that Richmond has more Hispanics and fewer Whites.
The interesting thing is that Richmond, CA has a crime rate over double the national average, but its income is actually pretty high. It's $55,558, so it's actually a little higher than NYC (though the per capita income was a little lower). So it's almost like a higher-crime version of NYC. Even the demographics aren't too far off. It's just that Richmond has more Hispanics and fewer Whites.
The demographics at first glance may seem similar, but the Hispanics over there aren't the same Hispanics as the ones over here. You'll probably find it extremely difficult to find a Puerto Rican or Dominican in Richmond.
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