any thoughts on bushwick?

your advice is much appreciated. i've been out to the place quite a bit though i haven't moved in yet and the neighborhood seems fine. not a place i'd walk around drunk alone at 3am, but still, fine. i figured i'd ask to see if anyone had horror stories though.

i lived off the montrose stop right next to the projects and never really felt sketched out--and this was back when i was partying a lot more and would come home at all hours (and i'm also a small asian girl).

however, other people living in the same neighborhood said they had a different experience....one of my roommates at the time was riding his bike on our street and apparently these two teenage hoodrats started chasing him hoping to mug him and get the bike--luckily he peddled away before they could.

my theory is that as long as you don't appear to have anything on you worth stealing you run less of risk of being bothered....of course, i'm only basing all this off MY old neighborhood. i lived in an industrial loft area that was full of young people who were up at various hours. no matter how late at night it was there was always some other 20-something year old on my street either walking to or from the subway.

it depends if you're living in a residential neighborhood, a young and gentrified neighborhood, or in the ghetto.

My take: used to be a wasteland of abandoned factory buildings, starting not to be; get a bike. I have some good friends who live on Varet Street and they paid like $300 a month for the entire floor of a warehouse. They had parties w/like 200-300 people in there easily. Landlord raised their rent to $3000 one day. It's still a deal!

there's an element of that, no doubt, but if someone's out to mug people then there's not any way of carrying yourself that's going to put them off. i was strolling confidently down devoe street in williamsburg on my way to a friend's party, turned the corner onto olive street, and shazam. a guy with gun pedalled up on his bike and demanded my bag. no amount of self-possession or savvy is going to prevent something like that.

best quote ever

people will think you're talking on your cellphone.

Pretty sure it wasn't a mugging... evidently someone was after him about, uh, something between them.

We found a place on McKibben yesterday. How is the consensus two years later? It's about three blocks from the L at either Montrose or Morgan. I've been out there a few times and never had any problems.

anyway, i was mugged twice while i lived there, tho both involved walking home alone drunk in the middle of the night.

also: if it's the building i'm thinking of, have fun in winter. the windows are all busted and the heat's a joke. also one or all of your neighbors will be in a band that practices in their apartment.

the salsa music all day is grating, yes.

Currently on the hunt for a 2BR off Bedford or Lorimer. Keep your ears to ground, people!

or up depending

last couple of times in Bushwick have really felt my age, like it still doesn't feel much at the "stroller" level of gentrification but still at the 20-somethings-with-*cool*-jobs level of gentrification. Both H and I noticed it felt remarkably similar to Williamsburg circa 2003 or so (without Bedford Ave) -- w/the galleries and music venues and scattered trendy restaurants/coffee places throughout a landscape that was otherwise either desolate industrial or cheaply built rowhouses, w/ roving bands of (mostly) white twenty-somethings and Hispanic families. Except that then we were 24 and now we're 36.

it's great when yr past 50 you're invisible

not in boca!

are these still fireworks?

now there is some weird cooing bird outside my window. (can't see it.)

i'm losing my mind.

They're still setting off the occasional quarterstick where I am (near the lorimer L)

the K2 stuff is scary

yesterday i was at that corner and there was a guy screaming loudly at nothing and stomping the pavement, storming into bodegas and like freaking people out. over the weekend i saw a guy splayed out very unnaturally across the steps going up the subway that everyone had to like tip toe around.

the police seem to be doing a good job actually in terms of deescalation. also the one bodega that they say has been selling it has always been creepy as hell.

is that the big boy deli?

oh wait I see that it is

yeah! i don't like that place

I don't get why people use this drug. It's clearly bad news.

i like good news drugs

tbqh I've been avoiding that deli since they got the bitcoin atm. terrible about what's happening, hope the victims are all ok.

what are you guys talking about

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/nyregion/k2-overdoses-brooklyn-police-raids.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=nygeo-promo-region®ion=nygeo-promo-region&WT.nav=nygeo-promo-region

I don't get why people use this drug. It's clearly bad news.

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*pats you on the head*

the photos are crazy http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3687547/33-people-hospitalized-New-York-K2-drug-overdose.html

There was a while when I got all my cheap cigarettes at that deli! Bummed that it's the center of this shit.

anyone want to play pool at the cobra club? shot in the dark but ya know

some time, for sure! not tonight tho, friend's birthday in ridgewood.

ahh ok

treeship email me i'm down to play one night

http://bushwickdaily.com/bushwick/categories/arts-and-culture/4349-stolen-igloo-sound-bath

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Went to Bossa Nova Civic Club last night and were clearly the oldest people by ten years. Fun though. Good DJs.

I've never been, which shows my relevance and reputation these days.

I’d be surprised if we weren’t the only married people too.

a five-block parameter huh?

I used to feel that way in Bushwick too and I was 26/27 when I lived there man alive

Also Bunker was very good

i used to live above BNCC lol true story

in fact i lived there when Wale shot the video for "Bad" there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TIIu9CERgI

not really sure where else to post this without feeling awkward, but: our house on lawton street caught fire last week. my roommate's room, our kitchen and living room were totally wiped out, ditto the upstairs kitchen and living room, and every bedroom in the house got at least some measure of smoke and water damage. everybody has had to move out and is in the process of extracting and trying to clean/save anything not blatantly soaked and sooted to the bone. this has not really been very fun in a lightless house with face masks and headlamps. the worst thing of all is that our cat passed away of smoke inhalation, which i really don't even want to talk about. we're hoping it was quick and relatively painless.

i say all this as a preamble to, there is a gofundme for all us housemates (save Shuj4 H41d3r who lived downstairs of me - if you follow him on twitter you know he got his act together sooner to set up a fundraiser [plus had separate additional expenses to deal with] and has also shared this one). i hardly would ask any of y'all internet cats here to donate but please consider sharing, and more in the spirit of ILX, coming out to the bar-room fundraisers this friday! happy hour at marcos (broadway & malcolm x) from 2 to 8 followed by band showcase at The Gateway from 8:00 on. come have a drink, bring your friends, spread the word! i will be the frequently unshaven man wearing stupid hipster aviator glasses.

jeezus Doc, what a bummer. hope things go well, fast!

Sorry about your losses. Someone on your page should probably spell Rafael Espinal's name correctly.

ah jeez, sorry doc - that’s awful, especially your poor kitty

fuck

sorry for your cat but really good news that no humans were hurt

thanks, y'all. it's been tough but this has definitely reminded me how many people care and want to help - have not had to worry about places to sleep and stuff like that and that takes a ton of what would be nightmarish stress out of the picture. i was at target to buy a rolling suitcase and some underwear/socks and saw a dumb t-shirt with an "I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends" motif and i was like, right on.

and MV, i'll pass that on to to the guy that set up the gofundme, appreciate it.

aw man i'm sorry dc all the best to you, that is awful. im glad you all are safe and im sorry about your cat

oh no doc i am stunned and appalled to hear this

damn, sorry man

you all are terrific. recognized a few ILXor names in the donation list and was really touched. y'all didn't have to do all that! <3 <3 <3

still getting by okay. couchsurfing while i work through cleaning/reboxing/purging the stuff that i did haul out of the place. hopefully when that's done there's enough space in my friend's spare room for me to crash while i look for an apartment, but i've also had several other offers of places to stay in march so that's one big worry taken out of the picture.

good luck doc - glad you've got people who can help

Best of luck Doctor. Fire and the aftermath is such a devastating thing to have to go through, I know. I'm very glad you've got so many good people around you. Hang in there.

https://bushwickdaily.com/bushwick/categories/community/6047-the-life-of-a-polyamorous-hasidic-swordfighter-in-bushwick

xp to many other threads: shit that could be in the onion, HEY JEWS, poly people, etc

Well that was enjoyable

very disappointed this does not mention the swords at all after first reference, what would carly rae jepsen think