Daily News Spotlights Clinton Hill
It took us all of the long weekend to get through the NY Daily News lengthy feature on the revival of Clinton Hill. But Jason Sheftell is making one big claim: that the neighborhood “may be considered one of the most important community-inspired growth periods since legendary activist Jane Jacobs saved the West Village and…
It took us all of the long weekend to get through the NY Daily News lengthy feature on the revival of Clinton Hill. But Jason Sheftell is making one big claim: that the neighborhood “may be considered one of the most important community-inspired growth periods since legendary activist Jane Jacobs saved the West Village and SoHo in the 1960s.” The streets resemble Paris, or 5th Avenue in 1910, or New Orleans in 1950! And then there are the mansions! Pratt is the glue that holds it all together, which is dubbed a “cultural and physical anchor.” And the praise goes on, including the turnaround of Myrtle Avenue and smaller pockets of retail and restaurants popping up. Despite housing projects, crime, “questionable” public schools, the G train, and the fact that “luxury automobiles can blast rap,” the community continues to grow. Think this all backs the claim that “Clinton Hill delivers the top block-by-block living experience in New York”?
BK Neighborhood Blooms in Residential and Retail Awakening [NYDN]
I’ve been in that beautiful building too!!
Yeah, Clinton Avenue has amazing houses. And there is a story behind every one.
“luxury automobiles can blast rap”
WHAAAAAT? Is there a problem with rap music? Or with people who listen to it driving “luxury automobiles”? What does this mean? How can a sentence like this get past the editor? Even if the editor is a 500-million-year-old white man?
DH, same hoods when there’s accolades to be grabbed – NOT when it’s crime events
“By more4less on January 18, 2011 1:00 PM
Boerum, that’s Ft Greene. albeit that’s right at the border”
haha sorry – i love when FG/CH peeps get all technical about the boundaries. it’s the same neighborhood IMO.
Boerum, that’s Ft Greene. albeit that’s right at the border
Plus the gunshots at Bishop Laughlin!
I agree with the NY Daily News poster who was pissed that the schools were dismissed wholesale. Not only are some of the public schools good, but there are all those alternative waldorf/free/ccop/independent school options.
I went to Pratt from 1987-1992 and lived on campus the whole five years while studying Architecture. The houses and apartment buildings are beautiful except for some of the modern housing blocks. I had a job at the Caroline Pratt Mansion for a bit and it was a delight to go in there and work. The G train is a downer but lack of attention and traffic has saved a lot of the area from demolition and redevelopment. The area is tons better than when I was a student.
Expert Texpert, I am surprised by your post. I lived in Clinton Hill (closer to Fulton St. than to Myrtle) from 1989 to 2007. I lived on a great block and it was a great place to raise my child, who arrived in 1998. She loved it too.
True, MetFood on Fulton St. was disgusting, but I felt safe there.