Lincoln Terrace in Crown Heights

[SeventhFloor]

I wish I could sticky this thread.

[itsideal]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

I wish I could sticky this thread.

[Henna]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

I wish I could sticky this thread.

It's really hard for out-of-towners to understand the quality of life issues they might face by moving to a crappy area. During the year or two after I initially moved to NY, I was really totally naive about these issues. This is even after I did have some experience living in the city -- my first 6 months were spent around 108th and Amsterdam where I lived in a poorly kept walk-up building with a repeatedly broken door lock, above a barbershop where the neighborhood people played some sort of really loud music til 4 am every night in the warm weather.

Even AFTER that experience, I still didn't get it. I am not sure when I began to understand, because luckily I never did have to live in a bad area where I might have had to deal with being mugged, watching drug deals go down, dealing with loud gangs of bikers or urine in the elevator. I am really thankful that somehow I got lucky and ended up in decent neighborhoods with decent neighbors in both Queens and Brooklyn.

When you come from an environment where everyone you've always been around has been in your same socio-economic group and your neighbors were nicely behaved, it can be really confusing to be surrounded by people who behave poorly or criminally. I would say I didn't have a full wake-up to these issues until I had been living in the city for at least 5 years.

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by Henna

It's really hard for out-of-towners to understand the quality of life issues they might face by moving to a crappy area. During the year or two after I initially moved to NY, I was really totally naive about these issues. This is even after I did have some experience living in the city -- my first 6 months were spent around 108th and Amsterdam where I lived in a poorly kept walk-up building with a repeatedly broken door lock, above a barbershop where the neighborhood people played some sort of really loud music til 4 am every night in the warm weather.

Even AFTER that experience, I still didn't get it. I am not sure when I began to understand, because luckily I never did have to live in a bad area where I might have had to deal with being mugged, watching drug deals go down, dealing with loud gangs of bikers or urine in the elevator. I am really thankful that somehow I got lucky and ended up in decent neighborhoods with decent neighbors in both Queens and Brooklyn.

When you come from an environment where everyone you've always been around has been in your same socio-economic group and your neighbors were nicely behaved, it can be really confusing to be surrounded by people who behave poorly or criminally. I would say I didn't have a full wake-up to these issues until I had been living in the city for at least 5 years.

Yet they come here and ask, don't listen, and it ends up costing them. So be it. Especially for this thread - I hung out in that part of Crown Heights in my early years of college - I know that part of Brooklyn extremely well....it's not for the faint-of-heart man....I used to stand in front of the building sometimes and count the rats running across the street, that area had a bad rat problem in the past too.