building at 99 Gold Street

Forgot to add my email! mariatcohen@gmail.com for the invitation for the group

I feel the responsibility to leave a serious word of warning about this building. The experience of visiting 99 Gold Street and the surrounding area during an open house or during the day is vastly different than that at night. The building seems sound, esp when compared to Manhattan; however the neighborhood is on the cusp of a large housing project with a documented high crime rate and the dangers bleed through to the very block on which the building is located - a woman was severely beaten in front of the building in broad daylight just a couple of weeks ago. The area feels desolate and ominous and given the crime and discomfort surrounding the area, the newer apts and fair/mediocre amenities are not worth putting yourself, family, children in harms way.

Username1, every neighborhood is entirely different at night. You are an irresponsible resident of a neighborhood if you do not do that homework well in advance... or at all.

As for the projects... come on! The Amsterdam Houses on the Upper West Side are just as bad if not worse than the Farragut Houses on York Street. Nobody considers UWS to be unsafe. The Meatpacking District/West Village has crime rates remarkably similar to Vinegar Hill (not DUMBO, but Vinegar Hill itself)... and that's without NYCHA housing being in the 10011 zip code. Daylight robbery and assault frequently occurs in that area, just like Vinegar Hill, just like any neighborhood in New York. Don't project your repressed fear of blacks and hispanics onto a judgment of a neighborhood. To say raising a family in Vinegar Hill is putting them in harms way is plain ignorance.

Vin hill is much diff then uws. 99gold is in the middle of a somewhat desolate area bordered by a fairly sprawling
public housing project. Fear of crime is not racism. if you ever lived in the housing projects, you would know the the difference.

The reality is that some housing projects are more dangerous than others. Some have almost no crime at all. If you do a deep search of the web, you will find chats where NYCHA residents discuss crime in various complexes, and which ones are preferred, and which ones have obvious gang activity. We spent a year living in Downtown Brooklyn, and during the holidays the mounted police arrived at 9 PM, parked their horse trailer, mounted up and patrolled the hood for I don't know how many hours (I can't read horse manure THAT well). So the police do target trouble spots, and we lived in one of the highest crime areas in all of NYC. It's unfair to play the race card, Irschober, because most often the crime victims are the same race as the perps, and no decent person of any heritage likes being a crime victim. Just because real estate agents can't talk about crime stats doesn't mean the rest of us can't.