NY Mag Annoints Bed Stuy as the Next Hipster Destination
New York Magazine has crowned Bed-Stuy the city’s next hipster enclave, citing competitively priced (say what?) new construction like the Mynt, where one-bedrooms will start at $1,700 a month. (Interestingly, though the Apartments & Lofts agent quoted by New York is a big Bed-Stuy booster, the brokerage’s listings for the Mynt peg it as Clinton…
New York Magazine has crowned Bed-Stuy the city’s next hipster enclave, citing competitively priced (say what?) new construction like the Mynt, where one-bedrooms will start at $1,700 a month. (Interestingly, though the Apartments & Lofts agent quoted by New York is a big Bed-Stuy booster, the brokerage’s listings for the Mynt peg it as Clinton Hill, not Bed-Stuy.) The mag contends the neighborhood is primed to shelter all manner of hipsterdom priced out of Clinton Hill. Bed-Stuy Blog weighs in on the ‘hood’s new designation:
Clearly this is mostly a North Stuy phenomenon. I’ve noticed that the part of Bed-Stuy serviced by the G train line looks like it’s getting more and more Clinton Hill and Williamsburg spillover as each month passes. I have no problems with this trend, especially if it means that maybe one day those elitists at Fresh Direct will finally decide to deliver to the Bed-Stuy sections of 11206 (they seem to think only the Bushwick section of 11206 is worthy of their fine goods and services). Maybe by spring the North Stuy will be The Next…place to get a decent grocery store.
So much for starving artists.
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Photo by Brandon King
I live on Greene Ave between Classon and Franklin. Bed Stuy. If I walk 100 feet and cross Classon, I’m in Clinton Hill–this is the border zone that realtors call Clinton Hill and locals call Bed Stuy. In the last year I’ve seen a huge shift from black to white on my block. The new arrivals are young. They look like students or post-college 20-somethings. Most seem to be renters. Some of them are clearly hipsters, but many are just plain white folks. I suspect that this block’s hipster types are Pratt students, because they are fairly clean. The gloriously dirty, slouchy and dissolute hipster types seem to relegate themselves to the farther reaches of the L train for now, for which I’m thankful. Maybe it does have to do with the rents being a little higher in this quaint brownstone neighborhood, despite the crappy G train. Sadly, there is a MAJOR development happening on this block–10 new buildings, with a total of 80 apartments–and the architect is none other than Karl Fischer himself, “Hot Karl” of the Nouveau-modern/Tacky Contemporary movement, who is responsible for half of the new “luxury” condo buildings sprouting up like weeds in Williamsburg.
“The government baileth.” No charges in playground ball. No grammar heathens on blogs. But, you crossed the line, buster. Delete the “will” and stop the verb party. Now, get back to work.
haha, it is funny reading comments about the photo. just go to the original.
9:05 – The government will baileth? Just like they bailethed out New Orleans?
3:43PM, where did you get your stats and don’t those numbers seem strange to you?
enough with the tiny cup is white-owned whiney nonsense. i never “see the owner’s face” when I go in there most of the people working are black, and the customers are at least 50% black, latino, or asian. so get over it.
Dear BH Wallstreet,
From one in your tribe- I don’t think that you have been to Bed Stuy lately. So risk averse as a Wall Streeter? Bed Stuy isn’t even risky. The blocks are gorgeous! The only threat are the ugly new buildings with bars to their rooflines. As far as I can tell from “sold this week” on this site- Bed Stuy is doing just fine.
The government will baileth.
“How could someone still rent? The banks have been handing out morgages for the last how many years?” – August 29, 2007 6:57 PM
They’re not ‘morgages’. They’re 3 to 5 year leases. The repo man (foreclosure) cometh.