RealCrownHeights
All Star
Brehs mentioning Flatbush in here... I always felt safe living in Flatbush. I lived near Brooklyn College and the Junction BTW.
I got robbed once in 2006 when I was a teenager on Glenwood Road by some teenagers and catching someone trying to break into my apartment though the window, I didn't come across much crime.
A always assumed this happened in every hood in NYC not just Flatbush
I went to PS152 for elementary and IS 33 and Bed Stuy and it was kind of an culture shock when I went to 33. Bed Stuy felt like the real hood where's Flatbush felt like an middle class neighborhood. Among 90s babies Flatbush has an rep as an safe hood, in High School some nikka said "nikkas in Flatbush go Chruch on sundays and shyt"
IMO BK has been chill since the late 2000s, only recently has it started to get crazy again.
Flatbush/Canarsie/Flatlands = Safe
ENY/Brownsville = real hood
Bed Stuy depends on what part you live in
Depends on what part of Flatbush, remember crips hit that area heavy. Bed Stuy is identified but I still see a lot of fukkery especially recent like you said. That sweet 16 that got shot up a couple weeks ago has white people walking past there every day. Notice we ain't even speak on Coney Island and those rowdy bunch