Moving to New York City for School, What Parts of Brooklyn are the Safest?

In order:
– Yes, although a few blocks east of Pratt you *may* begin to have problems (I have known people who lived in Bed-Stuy comfortably with no safety issues, but I have also heard about a lot of muggings and confrontations on Grand St.).
– Yes, unless you’re in the vacant-industrial areas to the southwest and south of the neighborhood.
– Yes. The problem is affording it.
– The boundaries of Park Slope depend on whom you ask and what they’re trying to sell or rent to you. Down to about 18th Street it’s realistic that you could walk to the restaurants and shops of Park Slope, so the teens is the area I think can fairly be called South Slope. Once you get down below the Prospect Expressway that becomes less realistic and it’s a different, less convenient neighborhood.
– Bushwick I wouldn’t recommend based on friends’ experiences a few years ago, but it may have changed.
– $89
– You can’t get a yellow cab in Clinton Hill. It would have to be a car service, and I would guess $30 for the fare. As a student, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to do that on a regular basis.

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Stay out of: Bushwick, Canarsie, Flatbush, Greenpoint, Bed Stuy, Crown Hts.

OK to go Borough Park, Brighton Beach, park slope, williamsburg, brooklyn hts

I live in Park Slope and used to work near Pratt.

The Pratt area has gotten a lot better in the past few years, and yes, I think you could live right around Pratt. But I wouldn’t too more than 2 blocks or so east of there. North is okay, as long as it’s not northeast and south and west of there is fine.

The boundaries of Park Slope are open to interpretation, but no one disputes the northern border (Flatbush Avenue) nor the eastern border (Prospect Park.) How far west it goes depends, but lately the border on that side is pretty much considered to be 4th Avenue. The southern border is the really tricky one. I’d say it goes all the way to Greenwood Cemetery these days, though south of 9th St. it’s considered to be the “South Slope” – which is still part of Park Slope. Some people think it only goes as far south as 14th or 16 Streets, and south of that is a part of Windsor Terrace, or even a completely separate neighborhood called “Greenwood” or “Greenwood Heights.” Neighborhoods are like that in NYC. No one agrees on where the borders are, but the heart of the neighborhood is never in dispute The two main streets in Park Slope are 7th Avenue and 5th Avenue, though 5th Avenue between say 5th or 6th Street and Flatbush Avenue is the younger, hipper part of the Slope these days. However, south of 9th Street, 7th Avenue is getting more interesting as well. 7th Avenue north of 9th Street is the original main drag of Park Slope, but has gotten a bit stodgy lately. (I’ve lived in this neighborhood since 1981.)

As for info on metro cards and cabs, others can answer. The answers to those questions are pretty easy.

If you want a tip, I’d suggest moving to Sunset Park, the last great bargain in Brooklyn. It’s still fairly cheap, it’s an interesting neighborhood (not yet gentrified) and it’s near enough to Park Slope that you could come here for a great meal or to hang out with your friends. And if you are going to NYU (as I’m assuming because of your questions about the Village) the R subway line runs right through Sunset Park and, while slow, the R line DOES go right to NYU (at the 8th Street Subway station.) I know that this is the neighborhood I would look in today, if I were your age. (I was 20 or so when I moved to Park Slope, and it was not yet the place it is today.)

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS IS THE ANSWER! Some vicinities of Brooklyn are still not completely safe. An even if a city is “safe”, there are always a radius of blocks that are NOT safe. Metrocards are $89 for unlimited monthly. A cab ride may cost about $15-20 depending on whether the driver thinks you’re a tourist and takes you around the same area 10 times. And it’s actually Greenwich Village.

I live in Clinton Hill, its safe but as you mentioned common sense helps. There are muggings, and burglaries that do happen on the regular and white people have huge targets. Nevertheless, Clinton Hill/ Ft Greene is very mixed and nice. I love it.

Williamsburg is closer to the city and a large white (hipsters) population. Sort of a campus feeling. I highly recommend living on the North Side. Lots of bars, restaurants and lounges.

Park Slope is expensive.

Bushwick has gotten better. Lots of whites hipsters there and a large a growing art community.

Stay out of Bed-stuy, even though its gotten better. But I wouldn’t recommend it. It will always be do or die bedstuy, but some areas are prospering.

Park Slope, Dykers Heights, Midwood, and maybe Bayridge, Brighton Beach and Bensonhurst.
Park Slope is very good and safe neighborhood but expensive.
Avoid places like Coney Island, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Canarsie.
Besides by car, the best way to get around is the subway or bus. You can check for the price for the metrocards in the train stations.