In terms of crime and safety - Hove Beach can be unpredictable especially in comparison to some other neighborhoods in Broker, though it suffers from less crime than some areas in Broker such as the Firefly Projects. Various streets and roads can get quite busy during the day, such as Mohawk Avenue.
The area is primarily made up of various low-rise apartments, brownstones, regular terraced houses, factories, bars, and shops - many have an Eastern European influence/theme such as the ' Comrades Bar' along with the Russian-owned clothes shop in the area. The neighborhood, for the most part, is a combination of working-class and middle-class people. Hove Beach has a very large population of Eastern European immigrants consisting of Russians, Poles, and Ukrainians, as well as a Balkan population consisting of Serbs and Albanians.
Niko Bellic's first home and safe house is in his cousin Roman Bellic's apartment in Hove Beach. It is bordered to the northeast by the Algonquin-Dukes Expressway ( South Slopes) to the north by Gibson Street ( Outlook) to the northwest by Cisco Street and Delaware Avenue ( East Hook) to the west by the Humboldt River to the south by Crockett Avenue ( Firefly Island) and to the east by Onondaga Avenue ( Firefly Projects).
