Bed Stuy Native Laments Dramatic Change in Neighborhood in the Daily News
Did anyone catch this essay in The New York Daily News, called “Goodbye, My Bed Stuy”? The writer, a black man who grew up in Bed Stuy and is a journalism professor at Brooklyn College, laments the growing number of whites moving into Bed Stuy and the rising rents, which are pricing out longtime black…
Did anyone catch this essay in The New York Daily News, called “Goodbye, My Bed Stuy”? The writer, a black man who grew up in Bed Stuy and is a journalism professor at Brooklyn College, laments the growing number of whites moving into Bed Stuy and the rising rents, which are pricing out longtime black renters in the neighborhood.
He mentions that Bed Stuy is mostly townhouses, which means most units aren’t rent regulated. He also says part of the problem is investors who are purchasing homes “as bundles.” We haven’t heard of that, but we think he is referring to investors buying townhouses in the area to rent out. (Incidentally, a building he mentions as an example of landlord harassment is in Crown Heights, not Bed Stuy.)
What do you think of the essay?
He ‘laments dramatic change’ in bed stuy but goes to a newly opened cafe
To be fair, this was a Jewish neighborhood before anything else… http://www.6sqft.com/bed-stuy-from-harlem-and-hip-hop-to-hipsters-hassids-and-high-rents/
You don’t like yellow (smiley) faces? you racist?
were the two old black women complaining about the gay man that moved into the nabe forever ruining it?
That’s why you sold your Brownstone in 2008.
You lost 100% appreciation!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end..
But Dixon are the good guys cause they’re renovating the townhouses nicely, so can’t say anything bad about them and how their 8K townhouse rents are affecting the nabe.
LOL! Same exact thing I thought of when I read that. And it was just yesterday, the post was lots of their rentals hitting the market. DUH!
haha…The Dutch farm(er) is alive and well at the Queens County Farm Museum.
How many townhouses can we get on 45 acres of farmland?
DIxon and their ilk are terrible for affordable housing in these neighborhoods. We can argue semantics but they’re way more responsible for this price run up than any gentrification.