Yesterday’s news about a fatal shooting in Bed Stuy (technically Ocean Hill, according to The Times) over a rent check was a sobering counter-balance to all the positive press the area has been receiving lately. Shootings can and do happen in every neighborhood in the city, so there’s no point in reading too much into this one. But this kind of thing can have a big psychological impact. When a friend of ours was brutally attacked in Clinton Hill last year shortly after we bought our house, it definitely shook us up. Both events are reminders that by far the biggest factor (in our opinion) in the sustained strength of the real estate markets of neighborhoods like Clinton Hill and Bed Stuy is public safety.
Man Fatally Shot [NY Times]