Livingston St, Boerum Hill

Livingston St., like a lot of the streets in the Boerum Hill neighborhood, has a few different personalities. Parts of it have a lot to offer--beautiful old houses, interesting new businesses (coffee shops, bars), and nice younger residents (somewhere inbetween the stroller moms in Park Slope and the hipsters in, well, a lot of parts of Brooklyn). But around the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station, it can get a little bit sketchy. Sometimes there are rats, and I don't just mean a few...like, stampedes of rats. And some homeless people and druggie types tend to hang out around the station late at night. But the convenience to the Atlantic-Pacific hub, with its transportation and the Atlantic Center mall, makes this a very convenient location.