How safe is LIC? Are there hookers & crack addicts? Occasionally.

Wasn’t there a rape at the G Train Stop on Jackson Ave a few years ago also?

Yes, it’s very comforting that there are more rapes on the UES, thank you.

there’s a very strong police presence by the waterfront thanks to all the new development. It’s definitely safe enough, and as more people move in, it’s feeling even cozier

Yeah, emphasis on the waterfront. The rape occurred at the 21st and Van Alst G train stop, and was witnessed by the station clerk and a train conductor. The cops took 15 minutes to get to there, which is so weird, because the precinct house is five minutes from that station. Thanks, 108. (By the way, the rapist was never caught.)

There are sex workers in the Court Square/Queens Plaza area day and night. Heck, there are escorts who work out of the Avalon. It’s more of a “broken windows” issue than a danger to the baby bourgeoisie homesteaders. Sure, they bring in an unsavory element, but a lot of their clientele wear suits.

Apologies, I should have said “the Court Square and Queens Plaza areas.” Between the courthouse and the Plaza proper are plenty of short streets that are dead-ended by the Sunnyside Yards. You can find them there.

Furthermore, I’ve lived “here” longer than you, and I don’t particularly care if there are prostitutes here or not.

P.S. Cafe Henri is hardly what I’d call a pioneer outpost in LIC.

Because it’s way cheaper and there are fewer yuppies and families and fratboys and upscale BS. Those neighborhoods are lame. And it’s way easier to get to Williamsburg/Greenpoint from here. But still easy if you’ve gotta get to midtown for your dang dayjob.

Hi guys – nice comments. Just for clarification, hookers do not necessarily make a neighborhood more dangerous. The point is that LIC is still mostly industrial, and at night especially desolate. Seems like there’s some ‘living in a bubble’ thinking going on about LIC that just because there are $800+/SF condos, that the area is free from illicit going-ons. It’s not. Be alert and watch out. I didn’t mention in the post bc I didn’t want a free-for-all about all the bad things that happen in LIC because mostly it’s quiet and peaceful, but I’ve also been chased by a van twice while on my bicycle and on foot. Both times at night, and traveling from DK to HP. Bad shit of course happens anywhere and everywhere – LIC is not immune, and hookers don’t necessarily increase the likelihood.

liQcity – u sound like a tool. where do you live and what do you do beside write a shitty, unknowledgeable blog?

telling it with a bias, sounds like a tool. anyway, i live in several nabes in manhattan, no one would say the upper east or west sides were filled with crack addicts and prostitutes, but you see them everyday up there for real. been living in lic for several years myself (a couple of apts) never seen a pro neat court sq or the waterfront, no crack addicts either, queens plaza, yes, but it seems to be changing there already.

I believe there are hookers in Cleveland too, Yusef.

#15, another tool, born and bred in da bronx, lived in manhattan for 18 years, and now queens, parents from brooklyn, you are clueless. tell me where in lic i can find a real crack addict or prostitute…i really want to know, really, i need a hit of crack and a bj..