Ossory Road - Crosbies Yard - How safe?

Birneybau

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

They seem very dear for what you get.

I was looking at buying a house not far from there in 2015 - universally warned off the area.

What you doing resurfacing this blog post?

kravmaga

frankzappa wrote: »

Resurfacing this blog post after a number of years.
We are viewing some apartments in Crsobies Yard and evaluating a potential buy.
Anybody currently living there? Would you recommend it ?
We are a couple, both working professionals and looking to buy our first property. I read some mixed reviews so i was thinking if the situation improved in the last 4/5 years and if you have any feedback on the quality of the building/construction itself.

Thanks

No , I would not recommend it. The reason why the prices are low in CY is because its not a desirable place to live.

I would look at Spencer Dock in IFSC instead.

thenightman

Crap electric storage heating. Local scumbag kids hanging about under the railway bridge that you have to walk to get to the apartments unless you want to walk long way around and escorts and their creepy customers (guards don't want to know, Clontarf or Store Street) hanging around the building. I'd definitely avoid.

dotsman

thenightman wrote: »

escorts and their creepy customers (guards don't want to know, Clontarf or Store Street) hanging around the building. I'd definitely avoid.

I've never understood the problem people have with escorts. Surely the last thing either they or their clients would do is "hang around the building". Would it not be the opposite?

I know in my apartment complex (also city centre), they recently made a big deal of having dealt with the problem of escorts which had been going on for years, but I have to say, I never once noticed any issues. Scumbag kids, junkies, late-night & loud parties etc, I absolutely notice and am all for clamping down on, but I never noticed escorts, nor can I imagine how it would be a problem for me even if I did?

Effects

dotsman wrote: »

I've never understood the problem people have with escorts.

Because it's a shady activity that people don't want around where they live.
A friend of mine often had 'clients' wander about her building by mistake, while looking for the trans prostitute that lived below her building. This was while she would often be coming or going with her kids.

Strumms

An escort is probably giving them an every so slightly more positive job title. They are prostitutes, involved in criminality and working for organized crime groups. Not many are ‘sole traders’... accompanying you to a social event and providing ‘services’ later...

Call me old fashioned but I’d rather not have to negotiate my way through a forrest of brazzers, on my way home from drinks or work under a dimly lit bridge with various pimps overseeing the scene from varying vehicles parked nearby... not a very easy, relaxed or safe atmosphere to surround yourself with..

dotsman

Effects wrote: »

Because it's a shady activity that people don't want around where they live.

But my point is - does one notice it? And if so, how does it negatively impact oneself?

Effects wrote: »

A friend of mine often had 'clients' wander about her building by mistake, while looking for the trans prostitute that lived below her building. This was while she would often be coming or going with her kids.

But, in my apartment complex, I would often notice deliveroo/just-eat riders and delivery men etc wandering around looking for a particular apartment. They stick out due to uniform etc. I wouldn't even notice regular guys wandering around looking for the apartment, or if I did, I would just assume they are calling over to their friend/girlfriends place. The fact that the escort they may be visiting is a transgender or the fact that I am in the company of kids would make zero difference.

Strumms wrote: »

An escort is probably giving them an every so slightly more positive job title. They are prostitutes, involved in criminality and working for organized crime groups. Not many are ‘sole traders’... accompanying you to a social event and providing ‘services’ later...

Is this part of the problem? That when people think of prostitution they think of the Hollywood version? That there'll be pimps and catfights and drive-by shootings? The overwhelming majority of escorts in Ireland, and especially those operating out of an apartment would be "Sole traders" or independent (as they refer to it).

Strumms wrote: »

Call me old fashioned but I’d rather not have to negotiate my way through a forrest of brazzers, on my way home from drinks or work under a dimly lit bridge with various pimps overseeing the scene from varying vehicles parked nearby... not a very easy, relaxed or safe atmosphere to surround yourself with..

But we are talking about an escort operating out of an apartment, not a "forrest of brazzers under a dimly lit bridge" (again - the "Hollywood version").


Ultimately, I can't see a difference between this and a girl having a boyfriend call over (except it's a different boyfriend every time). By the vary nature of being or visiting an escort, I would have thought both parties would try to be as discrete about it as possible.

I'm not trying to be flippant. I just genuinely don't see a problem. Again, and I refer to my previous post, apparently my apartment complex had a few apartments used by escorts for years, and I never even noticed.

candyman

Folks, have a favour to ask. Am doing some property investigations and checking back in time for property prices around 2012 in crosbies yard and other similar developments.

The propertypriceregister is great to seeing the sold prices but it tells me nothing about whether the property was a 1 bed or 2 bed.

So I'm hoping some of ye actually live there and can tell if any of the below apartments are 2 beds? I'm getting this list from the ppr site in case you are wondering. Appreciate any insights, thanks.

Apartment 4 Block A 

Apartment 162

Apartment 15

Apartment 17