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Most of gentrifying brownstone Brooklyn falls into that bucket. Even the "not yet gentrifying" ares of ENY and Brownsville have well kept rowhouses that look totally fine from google images/street view.
From Street Views, maybe. But if I'm from out of town and I'm looking at articles, I'm not going to find many favorable things about ENY or Brownsville. Or gentrifying brownstone Brooklyn, depending on the block. I hope people are not deciding where to live just off a Google Street View.
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"The man who sleeps on the floor, can never fall out of bed." -Martin Lawrence
You think it's hard identifying good and bad neighborhoods in NYC? Give an example of a neighborhood that can confuse a transplant into thinking it's safe when its not.
I think for someone who doesn't know anything about NYC and isn't used to Northeast urbanity, maybe somewhere like the LES would look run down despite being very gentrified.
And there are plenty of places that this board can't agree are hood or not.
I think for someone who doesn't know anything about NYC and isn't used to Northeast urbanity, maybe somewhere like the LES would look run down despite being very gentrified.
And there are plenty of places that this board can't agree are hood or not.
These people on here are still calling Clinton Hills the "hood" now.
Im convinced 90% of these posters never grew up in NYC (I'm not including SI/Jersey :roll eyes
The gritty of NYC has been cleaned up tremendously, it still has many ways to go however for a congested Urban city with over 8 million people. Crime isn't that bad especially where it was in the 80s/90s.
If i can walk outside and not be worried about getting shot, thats good. And I don't feel worried no matter where i am in the city. Hell I'm more worried about bombs. After 9/11 and having to walk across the brooklyn bridge to get home covered in soot, I vowed to spend less time in the city "city"
I think for someone who doesn't know anything about NYC and isn't used to Northeast urbanity, maybe somewhere like the LES would look run down despite being very gentrified.
And there are plenty of places that this board can't agree are hood or not.
We're talking about somebody looking for an apartment. A previous poster mentioned that when they were moving, it was hard to tell what neighborhoods were bad and good. A Google Street View combined with reading about the neighborhood on C-D should spell it out, don't know why that's so hard.
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"The man who sleeps on the floor, can never fall out of bed." -Martin Lawrence
To answer the OPs question: Yes the neighborhood is totally worth considering.
I've lived off Rockaway Avenue in Bed Stuy for 2 years with my wife and now toddler daughter. It's a vibrant community, super well connected to the train system, and overall just a solid place to live.
I wanted to chime in because I had the same question when looking for a place to live. When doing research on the neighborhood I googled "Ocean Hill" and the first post that came up is another one from City Data from 2013. There were people with negative opinions (some of it based on visiting the neighborhood just once), and to be honest, it almost made me write off the neighborhood, which would have been a real shame. I think some of these older forum posts are really inaccurate about present day East Bed Stuy and are throwing people off when they are considering it as a place to live.
In the end though, I came and walked the streets and met people in person, and had a much better feeling about it and decided to move there. You really have to see a neighborhood and walk the streets to get a solid feeling. But yes this neighborhood is definitely worth considering based on the original posters question/concerns.
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