Crown Heights on rogers ave between st johns and sterling

Rogers and what? And where are you coming from? Which I ask to try and establish your comfort level. Is there any way you can visit the neighborhood?

It's completely possible that she won't feel too comfortable with that area. I mean, its in the middle of CH, so there will probably be some culture shock. She just can't let it show, cause they'll smell her from a mile away.

Is she a tough cookie? Or not so much...

we live around the corner... this area gets a lot of foot traffic from the church on the corner, people are very neighborly as well - there are a bunch of kids around (including our 18 month-old)... ! hope you guys enjoy it...

I also live nearby- two blocks away on Rogers and Park Place... I have been here for years with no incident. Like the previous posters have stated, the area is changing pretty rapidly and there is more traffic coming down Rogers than the other streets intersecting with it. There are congregating teenagers that can get kind of loud late at night, but that doesn't happen all that often and doesn't affect my life that much

I'm a little torn about the area (I live down the street on Rogers). I lived in Washington Heights for about 8 years and it was block-by-block like anywhere in New York, and I generally didn't walk home alone, which served me well. There are still spotty areas there, with open drug activity and strung out people (enough to drag my brother down, but that’s another story). Still, even with problems that have persisted, the area around the GWB is bustling and generally safe.

Here in Crown Heights people have been very cool - I've met more neighbors than anywhere I've lived in the city, and the apartment is nice, subway is close, etc. That said, I got thrown off when I saw some beat cops on Lincoln Place, because after working in Community Board 7 in the Bronx I’ve come to quickly associate beat cops with Impact Zones (and yes, most of the Bronx is perfectly safe).

Turns out I was right, and I live next to single-room occupancy hotel for chronically homeless people with HIV/AIDS that’s run by PRAXIS. In general, the place is pretty well-run, and we’ve gotten to know the security and the super there, but there’s still a bit of loitering on Lincoln Place (and the garbage that ends up in our light well has included an old wallet, liquor bottles, condoms, pipes and needles – but to be fair, hasn’t been all that bad lately). Most people in the area seem fine, but you’ll see strung out people hanging around too. And there seems to be a pretty open drug trade around Franklin and Lincoln – the kids are pretty brazen.

I’ve talked to the neighbors a lot, and most of the more recent problems have been with the landlord, but they’ll tell stories of trouble in the area, like when one of the elderly people upstairs was mugged in our entryway, and when a guy down the street got slashed in the face at the BP on Bedford. Still, people think things have gotten better, which crime stats show, although some crime has picked up recently (murders are up, but assaults and property crimes are down this year).

Nonetheless, I’m moving out because the landlord is trying to push out the tenants of three of the six units (he has the most trouble with the most vocal tenant of course), all of which has caused endless problems. I’ll give him credit that he’s worked on fixing up the building, but true to form he hires incompetents, has a history of code violations, and tries to limit work on anything that could help the rent controlled tenants. We’ve had endless trouble with everything from sewage backups to a two-day electrical outage, and just in the last six months. I think it comes down to the fact that landlords in rougher areas are used to dealing with tenants they feel they can push around.

I’m pretty sure a guy was intent on mugging me on the Parkway the other day, and I’m still not sure what was going through his head when we lunged towards me (and then beyond me towards the traffic lanes). I have a bit of an attitude, but am a small woman, so who knows. I used to have a muggers wallet back in Washington Heights, but have gotten complacent lately. I never thought of throwing a few old credit cards in there, but I’m paranoid about people knowing my name, since my identity was stolen.

Anyway, I’ve never lived in an apartment without problems, so unless you luck out, it comes with the territory. As far as the area, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who hasn’t lived in a large city before – mostly for comfort – although they’d probably be fine.