What do you like least about Crown Heights?
As we continue to reveal the results of our recent survey, we delve into the question “What do you like least about Crown Heights?“ Not surprisingly, almost 50 percent of the answers included something about crime, drugs or violence. Folks are also hankering for more healthy food grocery store options, cleaner streets and more business variety along the commercial corridors.
The full list is included below. Basically, we parsed through and distilled the responses into general categories. So the percentage column indicates in what percentage of answers included some reference to the particular item. Since people could list more than one complaint, the percentages do not necessarily total 100% (if that makes sense). For your reference, to date, 46 people have taken the survey – only 40 answered this particular question.
| Complaint | Percent of answers that had this complaint |
| Crime/violence | 47.50% |
| Lack of healthy grocery options | 17.50% |
| Dirty streets/run down areas/Abandoned buildings/ | 15.00% |
| Lack of business variety/dine-in establishments/weak commercial districts | 15.00% |
| Noise/loud people | 10.00% |
| Lack of quality schools/education/youth programming | 10.00% |
| Nothing | 7.50% |
| Gentrifiers/Uninvolved w/ community | 7.50% |
| Lack of public space/social space (for young professionals) | 7.50% |
| Poor perception/image of neighborhood | 5.00% |
| No movie theater nearby | 5.00% |
| No drug store nearby | 5.00% |
| Unfriendly neighbors | 2.50% |
| Armory drama | 2.50% |
| Lack of affordable housing | 2.50% |
| Lack of good post office service | 2.50% |
| Lack of jobs | 2.50% |
| Lack of strong cultural id | 2.50% |
| Homophobia | 2.50% |
| Increasing rent | 2.50% |
Any thoughts about the list? Stay tuned for the results of the remaining two questions - “What do you like most about Crown Heights?“ and “What things are part of Crown Heights’ identity as a neighborhood?”
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