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I just looked into moving into an apartment i really like there with a friend of mine. were both 20 year old white girls.
I keep strange hours and it wouldnt be unusual for me to be coming home at 2 or 3 am.
I hear mixed reviews about how good/bad this area is.
Thoughts?
I just looked into moving into an apartment i really like there with a friend of mine. were both 20 year old white girls.
I keep strange hours and it wouldnt be unusual for me to be coming home at 2 or 3 am.
I hear mixed reviews about how good/bad this area is.
Thoughts?
There are still drugs and gangs in Bushwick, and there are also families, kids, old people, and hardworking people of all kinds. Young transplants (the haters will call them hipsters) are moving in. Many transplants are doing just fine in this area, but you really need to judge for yourself by going (with some friends) at different hours and seeing how it feels. It's really block to block around there, so you have to feel it out. Find your routes to the subway and the stores nearby and see how those routes feel. Trust your instincts and be advised that you have to be smart anywhere in NY. Me and my tenants (20 y/o white and latino and arabic girls - I am a 40 y/o white guy) live off the Wilson stop of the L train (this area is widely touted as "unsafe" by a lot of posters on here). My tenants and I have lived here for a year now, and when I recently asked them how they've managed in the neighborhood they attested that they have never felt unsafe, and that they enjoy the proximity to the Myrtle/Wyckoff stop, Knickerbocker Ave., etc. Granted, we are two short blocks to the train and the walk takes us up Wilson Ave, which is heavily trafficked, with bodgas, etc. Hope this helps.
There are still drugs and gangs in Bushwick, and there are also families, kids, old people, and hardworking people of all kinds. Young transplants (the haters will call them hipsters) are moving in.
Good luck.
Wait, if you call a hipster a hipster, it automatically means you are a hater?
The closer you are to the Broadway Junction stop, the crappier and more dangerous the area gets. Gates station on the J is only 3 stops off. Which basically means you might be okay during the day, but at night is fairly questionable. Most of Bushwick is still pretty rough, the parts by the L train tend to be a little more safer than the parts by the J train. (However even on the L, the same Broadway Junction rule applies).
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