Lying lies and the brokers who tell them

[owlectomy]

Craigslist is always hilarious.

I just saw someone list an apartment four blocks from me as "Clinton Hill."

I live in Bushwick. Four blocks south of me is Bed-Stuy. It is NOT Clinton Hill.

Three blocks east of me isn't East Williamsburg, either...

Comments

[meaghanchan.livejournal.com]

But I can still take the G train into Manhattan, right????

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

Only the magical G train that you get on platform 9 3/4...

[meaghanchan.livejournal.com]

Have you checked out Prospect Heights yet? What did you think?

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

I think it's good, a step above where I'm living now.

I can see where the folks around Pratt could see some sketchiness, because there'a a large housing project right near Pratt, but I'm looking a little bit south of that area (near the 3 train, maybe the C, maybe south of that towards Prospect/Lefferts Gardens) and it doesn't seem sketch. It's pure Brooklyn in the sense that there's a lot of hair braiding places, storefront churches, and liquor stores, but it seems lively in a way that my area of Bushwick doesn't, and there's even a hipster tea shop under construction.

And I was looking in the not-so-great area of Prospect Heights, bordering on Crown Heights; I did look around Crown Heights enough to know that I don't really want to live in CH proper...