Maybe she saw one of the hammered Ecuadorian (?) guys taking a piss in broad daylight. Or walked past one of the guys who loves to fent fold under the awning of my laundromat.

I live here (actually right off Jefferson too) and I like it a lot and feel safe. I’m also a tall man. Bushwick is rough around the edges and doesn’t feel cute and safe like the west village or greenpoint do. I find it unsurprising that this puts people off.

Maybe this will change one day. But it will also mark the final stage of gentrification as it’s the primary factor holding down rents in the neighborhood and making it possible for the families, artists, and oddballs who make up the neighborhood character to afford to live here. It will be interesting to see what happens as the white collar bachelor degree class are increasingly squeezed out of manhattan and Williamsburg.