Forbes St, Newtown, NSW 2042

The close proximity to the local convenient shopping district on the top end of King St (Dominos, Kenyan coffee shop, Asian supermarket), along with public transport to Central, Redfern and Newtown make this place an up and coming corner of king street, this place does have a high concentration of public housing, and in turn a low-demographic multicultural community adding to a mixed income environment, with million dollar terrace homes, across the road from government apartments, where tenants are paying subsidised rent. The area in the past may have been given a bad wrap, and in turn lately over-policed, but that doesn’t stop this corner from being a thriving part of Newtown within the past 5 years, with more trendy shops popping up around the new Dominos pizza. The place has its fair share of loitering, like a lot of places in King Street too.

Hellhole. Crammed with too many Welfare recipients in one spot, illegal dumping, petty theft, drug paraphernalia and drunk yobbos loitering on the brick wall walking through the middle of the one way road in front of moving cars I heard stories of riots and drug dealers in there. The domestic violence is emotionally and morally draining.

Absolutely one of the worst places I have ever lived.
From living next to the large housing commission complex, the regular noise and episodes happening make afternoons home from work unbearable and sometimes leave me fearing for my safety. Local kids often hang around the basketball court arguing and swearing, and it wasnt rare for them to cause trouble Smashing windows, Ive seen people getting pinned on the wall and punched in the face from my front yard.

Their parents are complete trash, with nothing to do but get drunk, scream at each other in their units at night and let their kids do what they want, Ive even had some povvo shazza throw a flower pot 2 stories off her balcony onto my car roof.

Literally anywhere 2 streets away from here is a way better place to live

I used to live in an Airbnb around the corner, and regularly heard loud fighting in the units on the corner, drug users and homeless people hang around the T intersection next to the shops on the corner often, it is a pretty badly looked after area, filled with trash, graffiti, etc, I even found used syringes around. Police get called into the area almost everyday, not at all surprised, not really a place you want to hang around.