Top Five Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Gentrifying Bushwick & Two New Michelin Stars

Local Writes Brownstoner About Gentrification in Bushwick: High Rents Forcing Out Families
A Brownstoner reader and longtime resident of Bushwick sent Brownstoner her thoughts about recent changes and gentrification in Bushwick: “Just a quick email to see if you can help me understand what exactly is occurring in Bushwick. I have lived in Bushwick for what seems like forever and seen the changes that have happened here…”

Michelin Adds Two Brooklyn Restaurants to Its List of Starred Eateries
“The stars continue to shine bright in Brooklyn,” the new 2016 Michelin Guide announces, referring to the 12 Brooklyn restaurants that received stars in this year’s edition. The majority of star-worthy Brooklyn eateries are located Downtown and in Williamsburg, with a smattering in Clinton Hill, Bushwick, and one in Red Hook. Two new Brooklyn restaurants were awarded single stars in this year’s guide.

Crooklyn House at 7 Arlington Place Renovated, Becomes Bed and Breakfast
The extravagant but dilapidated brownstone at 7 Arlington Place in Bedford Stuyvesant, famed as the family home in Spike Lee’s Crooklyn, made headlines when it sold for $1,700,000 in 2013. Now newly restored and decorated, the home debuted Saturday as a bed and breakfast.

House of the Day: Grand Carroll Gardens Italianate Wants $7.1 Million
Grand Italianate brownstones with all the trimmings intact do not come along too often in Carroll Gardens, but here is the second we’ve seen in as many months. This one, located at 393 Clinton Street, offers a motherlode of original Italianate detail, including elaborate cornices, an ornate marble mantel with a carved pier mirror, arched doorways and stained glass.

Popular Bed Stuy Restaurant Eugene & Co. to Open Gourmet Grocery on Tompkins
With numerous full-line grocery stores, specialty shops and farmers markets, Bed Stuy is far from the stereotypical inner city “food desert.” But as the Whole Foods bags in the arms of residents heading home from the subway attest, locals have long complained they had to go outside the neighborhood to buy such items as grass-fed meats, wild fish, artisanal cheeses and organic strawberries. Now a gourmet grocery is finally headed to Bed Stuy.

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