Prospect Heights - How safe is it?

In my personal experience, you're pretty safe there.

The problem areas are the parts that brokers sell you as PH but are really getting out there way down eastern parkway.

The location you mentioned is two blocks off vanderbilt, so you're doing pretty well.

And check out Tom's restaurant if you haven't already.

east of washington is crown heights. i lived at st. marks and classon for two years and i wouldn't categorize it as safe. Nothing ever happened to me, but there were frequent shooting incidents. go check out brooklyian.com and see for yourself. also the presence of both crips and bloods tags made it worse, it gave the appearance of a turf war.

Again, I personally never experienced anything violent, but i couldn't take the psychological toll. yes there're precautions you can take like not talking on your cellphone while walking and be aware of your surroundings. but for me, the fact that i was apprehensive of coming home after 11pm every weekend was just no fun.