How safe is the area around Frederick Douglas housing projects ? (Pelham: apartment, houses)
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My flatmates and I are planning to get an apartment on the 104th street, right opposite to the housing projects, we have read and heard a few things regarding the area being sketchy so would like to get some more information regarding how safe is the neighborhood ?
PS: We are incoming international graduate students.
My flatmates and I are planning to get an apartment on the 104th street, right opposite to the housing projects, we have read and heard a few things regarding the area being sketchy so would like to get some more information regarding how safe is the neighborhood ?
PS: We are incoming international graduate students.
Flatmates? Are you from England or Ireland? Lol.
Here's the rule of thumb if you're white in the USA. And this doubly applies to whites from Europe. Stay far, far, far away from ANY HOUSING PROJECT.
Any place near a housing project can be risky during the day........dangerous at night................and an easy target
for a mugging if you appear to have money.
Let me know if you make it to your flat or end up flat on your back.
Here's the rule of thumb if you're white in the USA. And this doubly applies to whites from Europe. Stay far, far, far away from ANY HOUSING PROJECT.
Ya dig?
You're going a little too far.... There are plenty of white people living right across from the projects.... it's all about what kind of white people???
Are we talking about Organic-Matcha-Latte-Bradley and Gluten-Free-Pita-Bread-Molly from Southern California and Minnesota, or are we talking about Serguei and Igor living across from the Sheepshead Bay houses on Avenue X, or Sokol and Liridon living across from the Pelham Parkway Houses??? The former do in Williamsburg, Bushwick and Bed-Stuy, and they don't seem to be in any more trouble than anybody else, though hypothetically more of a target... The latter... they know you don't wanna mess with them..
Do you look like a soyboy type of white boy (and that applies to other shades, I've seen black soyboys get robbed in Brooklyn) or do you look like you would crack homeboy's skull with your own forehead?? This is the real question.
And not surprised OP may be from England, in Europe white people live in the hood amongst minorities, even in public housing with them, so I think his question was straight safety-related, not safety-regarding-to-skin-color-related.
Whites from Europe are ten times less wary of living in the hood than white liberals from suburban America, they're more used to it, and funny enough, in hoods in Europe you are much more likely to get savagely attacked than in the U.S.
The area is nice, just don’t go looking for trouble in those jects. Have common sense when it comes to street smarts. Those projects are sort of wild at night but make sure you’re not one of those dudes that goes in there looking to buy coke or pills.
Also there’s white folks that live in berry homes, todt hill homes and south beach projects in Staten Island south of the expwy. Dozens of Hasidic families in the PJs in Williamsburg, some Eastern Europeans in the Coney Island PJs and sheepshead bay/nostrand houses. Yes black & Latinos make up 85%-90% of NYCHA residents but there’s still that 10%-15%. Some Asians also live in the bland houses & latimer projects in flushing. I knew an Irish lady that moved to Marcy projects when they first opened up in 1949 and lived there until she passed away about 20 years ago or so.
Majority of families that live in the housing projects in West Virginia (that’s a state in the USA) are white.
West Virginia has housing projects?
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