Park Slope / Prospect Heights Questions

Just to clarify, Franklin is NOT Prospect Heights or Park Slope. PH really ends at Washington and even that is debatable these days. You may have luck with something in Windso Terrace/Kensington which is near the F and Park Slope. Or the border of Park Slope/Sunset Park/South Park Slope, which is 16th street and south of that.

It is debatable, some may say Crown Heights is safe, but there have been many instances where people have been mugged, etc. On the flip side this also happens sometimes in Prospect Heights nr. Underhill and Washington. Fort Greene is another up and coming area, with a great new restaurant scene.

scarlett wrote: I say if you really want to live in Manhattan do that. You can actually find some affordable rentals near school.

I agree. I went to SVA, and I have to say it's awfully nice to walk home when you're doing late studio hours. Even if it's a long walk. That's not going to be an option in Bklyn.

How about a sublet while you figure it out?

Anyway, if Brooklyn is the way you go, all around Prospect Park is a good place to live, in my opinion. Look for places on express lines if they are a little further out...fer instance, N v R train, look at an MTA map.

I'd also check out places on the L train -- Williamsburg/Greenpoint, because you can get the L at !st Ave/14th St and be home pretty fast. (The F train is one slow ass train.)

Hopstop is really handy to clock commute times
http://www.hopstop.com/?city=newyork

A good listings weekly:
http://www.nonsensenyc.com/about/

A handy list of links of art and politics:
http://www.wherewearenow.org/

This map is really ugly, but has scrollable streets that have updated info on what is on any particular street in Park Slope, Ft Greene and some other nabes.

Good luck!
http://www.smalltownbrooklyn.com/overview.html

if you can score a studio in the northern area of park slope, you'd have a pretty good commute via either the 2/3 train at the grand army plaza subway stop or the Q train at the 7th Avenue stop. that's only 4 stops to union square...20 minutes at most.

i've seen some nice looking studios listed in the named streets of park slope (the northern and VERY nice part) for 1500 and under. even saw one for 1350 recently...

all one has to do is look at crime stats.

to suggest to a new person coming to the city that crown heights is as safe as everywhere else is a flat out lie.

yes, crime happens everywhere, but it occurs far less in park slope than it does in crown heights.

park slope also has 100's of restaurants and bars within walking distance, and crown heights has very few.

check out the areas for yourself...don't take our words for it...

ginsbera113 wrote: Just to clarify, Franklin is NOT Prospect Heights or Park Slope. PH really ends at Washington and even that is debatable these days.

correct -- that is not usually considered prospect heights -- but to say that washington is the debatable road is also correct...as in a lot of people say it is franklin - your comment makes it sound like it is even further west.


OP:
i would recommend looking in the city, not brooklyn, if you're new and going to school in the city. your friends will probably be in the city as well.

but if you're dying for brooklyn, i'd go with close to the 2/3 at grand army or check out fort greene.