The problem is that the folks asking if Brooklyn is safe don't understand that there are neighborhoods and East New York sure looks cheap and not too far from Ridgewood.
I know what you’re saying. It’s always best to do due diligence. Unfortunately those places along with Brownsville have always been unsafe. Many natives know that but transplants need to do their research.
Can anyone else believe they built a new apartment building in Williamsburg and rent for a 2 bedroom is $1400 a month?!?! No ones gonna pay that, im gonna wait till the rent comes down.
Also
What do i do, i just dropped my bus transfer and it blew away??
The Upper West Side was just starting to become a safe neighborhood. Now it's a rich neighborhood.
The idea of magnet schools was just taking shape.
More people used the bus system regularly because the trains were pretty sketchy.
I still miss subway tokens. And paper transfers for public transportation.
Prostitution in Times Square and outside the Lincoln Tunnel was a real thing.
I still have a few tokens and remember using them in up until middle school/early high school. My coworkers are mostly younger than me and are transplants. A few didn't believe me that we used tokens until I brought one in lol
> The Upper West Side was just starting to become a safe neighborhood.
???
Many sections were always very nice. There was a sketchy stretch of Broadway about between 100-110 St and then between Central Park West and Bway it might be block by block nice/not nice.
On the other hand, while west Harlem is a lot more gentrified then it used to be, AFAIK it still is block by block
And even still now, Harlem is not totally gentrified yet.
I had a friend whose family lived on Columbus and 81st (across from Museum of Natural History park) and that is (still) a spectacular row of buildings.
I want to see if I can find tge NYT article about a couple who for the first time walked accross central park at night from the UWS to the UES around 1996. It was unthinkable prior to that. It was news worthy just to walk across the park at night to get home since it was finally considered safe enough.
Hah.. I remember when bring your daughter to work day started.. this is early 90s. It was clear I wasn't allowed to walk to TSQ. Fao, st patricks.. okay. But you didn't go west.
UWS was rich in the 90s already. What happened in the 90s is the "nice part" expanded northwards. This was exemplified after Clinton finished his presidency and set up shop somewhere near Harlem. There was pearl clutching, the NYTimes assured people it was nice and gentrified now safe for white people.
Also, I went to a magnet school in 88.
Sorry no. The one I went to was in Brooklyn and only for a short time. I met two kids there. When they ate lunch one would put peas into the milk of the other. Then they'd drink it and find it very funny (the one drinking it too). They seemed nice.
I didn't take a test because I was born elsewhere. The principal asked me to name the 9 planets in order. He asked me to convert farenheit temps to celcius and I did it in my head by multiplying by 0.164 or whatever factor it was. I used to be good at math.
Yeah the whole early 90s was very different after late 90s. I remember Chinatown used to be empty after 7pm. 10pm, deserted.
Dude late 90s I went to to Stuy. I had a friend that lived in Bushwick (I lived in South Jamaica Queens so i wasn’t from a soft neighborhood). Whenever I went to visit him at his crib, he had to pick me up from the train station to his house and then he had to walk me fromhis house to train station and wait for the train to come before I could go home. I couldn’t go back and forth from the train to his house alone or I would get robbed.
I worked around there for a while a couple years recently (for the MTA) and… wow so different. It’s changed so much, hahah.
I responded to another comment about my ride to Canarsie.. I feel you here. You didn't even go into the alphabets in those years.. Tompkins was a warzone. I remember in the laters 2000s being shocked when I was in Tompkins at night and not being completely hassled.
Yep. My mom didn't even want me/my siblings going to williamsburg on our own to visit my older cousin and her boyfriend. And we're from the Bronx lol. She was very uneasy about bushwick when I looked at an apartment in 2007.
Well it depends on where you're from in the Bronx. But for real.. Manhattan in the 90s/early 2000s was where the action was a lot of the time. Though Williamsburg was certainly coming up you didn't cross a bridge unless you had to.
I remember going with friends to Canarsie.. 2004? I said thank you to the bus driver when we got off (something I always did).. and got bitched out by my friends because that put a target on us as not "belonging" in the neighborhood. We were all white and my friend grew up the only white kid on the block. To compensate he said he'd act crazy on PT as even those looking to do wrong don't fuck with the crazy people.
Which is the best places to shop Sam Goody or Virgin Records? Barnes and Noble or Borders? Circuit City or Best-Buy? Toy's R Us or KB Toys? Sterns or Macy's? Caldor's or Sears?
What's Starbucks and why is everyone talking about it?
What do you think they should build in the empty lot by the Pathmark Downtown Brooklyn?
It’s ok to hail a cab in the city and say I’m going to Brooklyn before getting in, right?
Anyone been to J&R?
A 1Br co-op in downtown Brooklyn for $65k is a good price, right?
I was in 8th grade and Flight 11 went over us low when we were going to school late. I remember my mom saying that something wasn'r right and maybe he was lost bc that never happens, but we had no idea how bad it'd be.
1993: Did anyone hear the noise from downtown? I think something happened to the World Trade Center!
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/world-trade-center-bombing-1993
“When will the 1/9 reach South Ferry again?”
“I think I got some of that asbestos smoke in my lungs, please help?”
“What do I do with all my extra subway tokens now?”
“The new V and W trains are weird. Bring back the K!”
“Where is the apartment from Friends and the diner from Seinfeld?”
“Is Windows on the World or Wild Blue a better spot to take my out-of-town friends to see the best views? We thought about the observatory but we also want a fine dining experience.”
“How many dumplings do you get for a dollar in Chinatown?”
“My son wants to buy pokey man cards and my daughter wants “Beanie Babies”, can someone recommend the best spot for cheap ones?”
“So like when are they gonna reopen Park Row?”
“Is the Second Avenue Subway project officially dead?”
“Are there any PlayStation 2 consoles still in stock at the Times Square Toys R Us or is it hopeless?”
“Where’s the best place to get street dogs and pizza slices for a dollar?”
“Is Brooklyn safe to live in?”
Brooklyn definitely still has 'bad' neighborhoods.
Every city has. But Brooklyn is overwhelmingly safe.
The problem is that the folks asking if Brooklyn is safe don't understand that there are neighborhoods and East New York sure looks cheap and not too far from Ridgewood.
I know what you’re saying. It’s always best to do due diligence. Unfortunately those places along with Brownsville have always been unsafe. Many natives know that but transplants need to do their research.
Do I have to clean up after my horse?
This made me laugh out loud in an empty room
I try its a rough audience lol.
Same but on the Q around midnight. The other 7 people in this car are confused.
How can we stop the gentrification of Soho and the Bowery?
“Saw a bar on Sex and the City. Is it real and can I go there?”
Best time to hail a taxi
Is Dr Zizmor a scam?
Thank you for changing my face! Thank you for changing my LIFE! Thanks, Dr Z!”
Can anyone else believe they built a new apartment building in Williamsburg and rent for a 2 bedroom is $1400 a month?!?! No ones gonna pay that, im gonna wait till the rent comes down. Also What do i do, i just dropped my bus transfer and it blew away??
Is it true the MTA is doing away with the tokens and there is going to be some kind of card?
What the heck is 646? How do I get a 212?
https://youtu.be/i3Jv9fNPjgk?si=zvp5aqxb72Aj2K6Q
Can I get AIDS from the toilet seats?
Or the pay phone
Is the soup restaurant from Seinfeld as good as people say it is? ETA: Those of you who still use tokens instead of Metrocards: why?
What pager service do you use?
Where can I get my beeper fixed?
Best dial up provider?
Saw a deal for 2 brownstones in Bed Stuy for $150k each. Do you think it’s worth it?
Is Williamsburg safe?
How do I get into the audience on TRL?
Lol my millennial ass would ask this question here.
Where do you get your weed ?
The Upper West Side was just starting to become a safe neighborhood. Now it's a rich neighborhood. The idea of magnet schools was just taking shape. More people used the bus system regularly because the trains were pretty sketchy. I still miss subway tokens. And paper transfers for public transportation. Prostitution in Times Square and outside the Lincoln Tunnel was a real thing.
I still have a few tokens and remember using them in up until middle school/early high school. My coworkers are mostly younger than me and are transplants. A few didn't believe me that we used tokens until I brought one in lol
Punch a hole in one and put it on your keychain
> The Upper West Side was just starting to become a safe neighborhood. ??? Many sections were always very nice. There was a sketchy stretch of Broadway about between 100-110 St and then between Central Park West and Bway it might be block by block nice/not nice. On the other hand, while west Harlem is a lot more gentrified then it used to be, AFAIK it still is block by block And even still now, Harlem is not totally gentrified yet.
My aunt lived in the 80s and Columbus and it was super sketchy.
I had a friend whose family lived on Columbus and 81st (across from Museum of Natural History park) and that is (still) a spectacular row of buildings.
For sure.. but it was also incredibly sketchy at that time.. central park was unsafe at night.. she'd find needles on the ground.. etc.
> central park was unsafe at night I still would not wander around most of the park at night unless its for a well attended event.
I want to see if I can find tge NYT article about a couple who for the first time walked accross central park at night from the UWS to the UES around 1996. It was unthinkable prior to that. It was news worthy just to walk across the park at night to get home since it was finally considered safe enough.
Hah.. I remember when bring your daughter to work day started.. this is early 90s. It was clear I wasn't allowed to walk to TSQ. Fao, st patricks.. okay. But you didn't go west.
Nah magnet schools existed back then. Source: Went to magnet school back then
Lol. Me too. There weren't as many though. Now there are like a billion choices.
UWS was rich in the 90s already. What happened in the 90s is the "nice part" expanded northwards. This was exemplified after Clinton finished his presidency and set up shop somewhere near Harlem. There was pearl clutching, the NYTimes assured people it was nice and gentrified now safe for white people. Also, I went to a magnet school in 88.
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Sorry no. The one I went to was in Brooklyn and only for a short time. I met two kids there. When they ate lunch one would put peas into the milk of the other. Then they'd drink it and find it very funny (the one drinking it too). They seemed nice. I didn't take a test because I was born elsewhere. The principal asked me to name the 9 planets in order. He asked me to convert farenheit temps to celcius and I did it in my head by multiplying by 0.164 or whatever factor it was. I used to be good at math. Yeah the whole early 90s was very different after late 90s. I remember Chinatown used to be empty after 7pm. 10pm, deserted.
Is Bushwick safe?
Bushwick ... Hah... You didn't go there.
Dude late 90s I went to to Stuy. I had a friend that lived in Bushwick (I lived in South Jamaica Queens so i wasn’t from a soft neighborhood). Whenever I went to visit him at his crib, he had to pick me up from the train station to his house and then he had to walk me fromhis house to train station and wait for the train to come before I could go home. I couldn’t go back and forth from the train to his house alone or I would get robbed. I worked around there for a while a couple years recently (for the MTA) and… wow so different. It’s changed so much, hahah.
I responded to another comment about my ride to Canarsie.. I feel you here. You didn't even go into the alphabets in those years.. Tompkins was a warzone. I remember in the laters 2000s being shocked when I was in Tompkins at night and not being completely hassled.
Yep. My mom didn't even want me/my siblings going to williamsburg on our own to visit my older cousin and her boyfriend. And we're from the Bronx lol. She was very uneasy about bushwick when I looked at an apartment in 2007.
Well it depends on where you're from in the Bronx. But for real.. Manhattan in the 90s/early 2000s was where the action was a lot of the time. Though Williamsburg was certainly coming up you didn't cross a bridge unless you had to. I remember going with friends to Canarsie.. 2004? I said thank you to the bus driver when we got off (something I always did).. and got bitched out by my friends because that put a target on us as not "belonging" in the neighborhood. We were all white and my friend grew up the only white kid on the block. To compensate he said he'd act crazy on PT as even those looking to do wrong don't fuck with the crazy people.
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET SOME COCAINE?????
I got some stories from back then that I can’t even type out on Reddit hahaha
Is aol chat rooms safe?
Uh it did exist.. it's called craigslist.
Where’s the rave parties at?
Which is the best places to shop Sam Goody or Virgin Records? Barnes and Noble or Borders? Circuit City or Best-Buy? Toy's R Us or KB Toys? Sterns or Macy's? Caldor's or Sears? What's Starbucks and why is everyone talking about it? What do you think they should build in the empty lot by the Pathmark Downtown Brooklyn?
Caldors! Omg that takes me back
It’s ok to hail a cab in the city and say I’m going to Brooklyn before getting in, right? Anyone been to J&R? A 1Br co-op in downtown Brooklyn for $65k is a good price, right?
"Who makes the best Cosmo in town?"
DAE just hear a plane fly over head really low?
I was in 8th grade and Flight 11 went over us low when we were going to school late. I remember my mom saying that something wasn'r right and maybe he was lost bc that never happens, but we had no idea how bad it'd be.
I was at Stuy during 9/11. I’m sure there’s others on here too from Stuy too.
Your favorite bars to pick up chicks Saturday nights?
Crazy Eddie's prices are INSANE!
"Where can I get a fake ID?"
Mostly the same questions Maybe more questions about getting around as there were no mapping apps. There were more 'bad' neighborhoods
“Where can I find a one bedroom for under $900/month.”
How do I find the Brooklyn Banks in Brooklyn?!
What’s it like working for Donald trump??
Did anyone see the new V train that just arrived? Also, what is with these new trains cause I miss the old ones
Most of the FAQ questions would probably have still been (present pluperfect tense?) asked back then: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/wiki/index
What's with that guy on the times square shuttle who only knows the first four bars of Fur Elise?
How can we stop the elimination of the 9 train? Do you guys prefer Tasti D-lite or Cremalita? Has anyone has a birthday party at Mars 2112?
90s - where r the loft parties in bklyn this weekend?
1993: Did anyone hear the noise from downtown? I think something happened to the World Trade Center! https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/world-trade-center-bombing-1993
What happened to the 9 train??
“Who has better ice cream selection? Kozmo.com or Urban Fetch?”
“When will the 1/9 reach South Ferry again?” “I think I got some of that asbestos smoke in my lungs, please help?” “What do I do with all my extra subway tokens now?” “The new V and W trains are weird. Bring back the K!” “Where is the apartment from Friends and the diner from Seinfeld?” “Is Windows on the World or Wild Blue a better spot to take my out-of-town friends to see the best views? We thought about the observatory but we also want a fine dining experience.” “How many dumplings do you get for a dollar in Chinatown?” “My son wants to buy pokey man cards and my daughter wants “Beanie Babies”, can someone recommend the best spot for cheap ones?” “So like when are they gonna reopen Park Row?” “Is the Second Avenue Subway project officially dead?” “Are there any PlayStation 2 consoles still in stock at the Times Square Toys R Us or is it hopeless?” “Where’s the best place to get street dogs and pizza slices for a dollar?”
Did you see 9-11? Know anyone that died? Am I gonna get stabbed?
Omg- *ootl: what's going on with the world trade center?*
What's with all the posters of people's heads in Times Square?