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Laraujo31 t1_jdcr1l7 wrote

Stay away from MLK, Ocean, and Bergen Ave's. Everywhere else is ok. Downtown and the Heights are pretty safe. Journal SQ is decent but i wouldn't walk by myself at 2 am.

edit* when I said Bergen, I meant the part of that street that is parallel with MLK and Ocean.

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FinalIntern8888 t1_jdcv95s wrote

I walk home from JSQ on Bergen Ave at ungodly hours all the time… it’s perfectly safe.

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cmc t1_jdcwnr0 wrote

I dunno about "ungodly hours" but I walk alone at night on Bergen from JSQ too (all the way to McGinley Sq) and I don't feel unsafe. It's like any other big city at night- I keep my wits about me just like I did when I lived in Brooklyn. Also I don't feel any significant difference between walking on Bergen, JFK, or West Side Ave so it's weird to have that one in particular called out.

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Maleficent-Baby-1926 t1_jdrylc1 wrote

there’s better food down this way imo. if you’re not in a gang or selling drugs on the corner you’ll be fine. JC folks act like you’ll just be walking down the block in greenville and get attacked . let’s stop associating low income with criminality please its pretty wack

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DontBeEvil1 t1_jddcn8n wrote

Someone just posted a video from their window of a man getting knocked out cold on Newark Avenue, and others have been posting videos of someone purposely crashing a car, aimed at people, into Taqueria, but yea, and on the daily people complain about cars speeding through Downtown cross walks, almost murdering them...but yea, Downtown is safe.

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