Can We Get Updates on Apt. Searches?

All sorts of people post asking for advice before moving into various areas. Everyone chimes in, some saying it's safe, some saying it's not. We get to rehash gentrification issues. Fun Times. Anyway, I've noticed a lot of semi-delusional questioners who swear there are options for them in price range or safety concerns even when most people on here are telling them otherwise.

Can we hunt down some people who chose a place after posting questions on this site? I'm getting curious as to whether anyone regrets moving? Whether they actually found places in their price/safety range? Etc.

This is an anonymous message board. You are free to contact people via the Private Message function (click on their name and that page opens up.)That is, if they used a real email that they check often and not a dummy one for registering purposes only.

I was sort of hoping the people themselves would reply. I get the whole anonymous aspect. Maybe I just worded it wrong.

Opps, sorry, misunderstood.

From what I've seen, the arguments on whether it's safe or not, some aggressive posts on gentrification issues, and even posts a little shy of attacking the O.P. and their motivations, tend to scare them off from ever joining the brooklynian community and following up in later conversations or even ever posting again. It's disappointing. I hope to be proven otherwise and see this turn around.

here is another test of safety if you don't see no white girl jogging around the hood , probably not safe at all LOL. If you see one she is crazy or its perceived to be safe .

also if you see alot of check cashed or bootleg kfc's, chinese take out, and 99 cent stores on the same block. most likely a low income high crime area.

at the end of the day crime stats don't lie that much.

my personal test would be walking around and to see how many idiots throw racial slurs or asking for pork fried rice or making stupid fake chinese noises at me within mins of me walking the area.

Happens often.

We all have techniques for figuring out safety. I'm just curious about all those people we've given advice to. I'm wondering where they ended up and whether they got everything they wanted.

Ill bump it for you :cheers:

I didn't post here initially (just created an account two seconds ago, actually) but I did come across the Brooklynian forums while doing some google searching before I moved to Crown Heights. Of course, it was hard to find answers to a question as simplistic as "is crown heights safe?" but the few posts I read here were pretty much the most helpful information I found - even if everyone said basically the same thing.

This is the first post-college apartment I moved into (after living at home in the suburbs for a year,) so naturally I was a little apprehensive. Not scared, really; I just didn't know what to expect (especially since many people older than me would raise their eyebrows at the mere mention of Crown Heights, immediately associating it with violence and racial tensions.) In the end, I moved on impulse because I fell in love with my apartment immediately. That was almost a year ago, and I love living here more than I could've ever predicted!

There's a lot of life here. I personally feel completely safe 99% of the time because I live right on the parkway, where there are always people around, and it's well-lit (and pretty when the trees are in bloom.) I try to avoid walking alone on the side streets after dark, but that's just common sense (and I have friends who do anyway, and they've never had a problem). I still carry pepper spray because I'm a youngish-looking female, but I'd recommend that to any young woman living anywhere in the city, just to be on the safe side.

But yeah, I wasn't expecting to feel as safe or as attached to the neighborhood as I do. I recommend it to young brokesters like myself all the time. Neighborhood pride!

Wow, great feedback - and warms my old Broolkyn heart!

yay! Thank you im23.

Great to hear!

im23 said:

I didn't post here initially (just created an account two seconds ago, actually) but I did come across the Brooklynian forums while doing some google searching before I moved to Crown Heights. Of course, it was hard to find answers to a question as simplistic as "is crown heights safe?" but the few posts I read here were pretty much the most helpful information I found - even if everyone said basically the same thing.

This is the first post-college apartment I moved into (after living at home in the suburbs for a year,) so naturally I was a little apprehensive. Not scared, really; I just didn't know what to expect (especially since many people older than me would raise their eyebrows at the mere mention of Crown Heights, immediately associating it with violence and racial tensions.) In the end, I moved on impulse because I fell in love with my apartment immediately. That was almost a year ago, and I love living here more than I could've ever predicted!

There's a lot of life here. I personally feel completely safe 99% of the time because I live right on the parkway, where there are always people around, and it's well-lit (and pretty when the trees are in bloom.) I try to avoid walking alone on the side streets after dark, but that's just common sense (and I have friends who do anyway, and they've never had a problem). I still carry pepper spray because I'm a youngish-looking female, but I'd recommend that to any young woman living anywhere in the city, just to be on the safe side.

But yeah, I wasn't expecting to feel as safe or as attached to the neighborhood as I do. I recommend it to young brokesters like myself all the time. Neighborhood pride!

first post lol.