Newcomers Find Crown Heights Retail Lacking
North Crown Heights may be luring more affluent buyers with its gorgeous—and recently landmarked—rowhouses, but some of the newbie homeowners think the area’s shopping scene leaves a lot to be desired. According to an article in today’s Sun, as more buyers see the neighborhood as an affordable alternative to Prospect Heights, they’re also anxious to…
North Crown Heights may be luring more affluent buyers with its gorgeous—and recently landmarked—rowhouses, but some of the newbie homeowners think the area’s shopping scene leaves a lot to be desired. According to an article in today’s Sun, as more buyers see the neighborhood as an affordable alternative to Prospect Heights, they’re also anxious to see a retail renaissance on thoroughfares like Nostrand. A Wall Street worker who recently closed on an $870,000 Hampton Place home, for example, says he’s ready to see more restaurants in the ‘hood: “If there was something to patronize, I’d willingly spend money there. I’d like to see more amenities. People have money here. Somebody has to be the pioneer and open up something. It’s just a matter of time.” Think he’s right?
Retailers So Far Fail To Follow Homebuyers to North Crown Heights [Sun]
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Just a reminder, that like Bed Stuy, Crown Heights is a HUGE neighborhood. Much of CH South is home to the Lubabvitch Hasidic community mixed with a large Caribbean population. The Crow Hill section of CH, centered around Franklin Ave and the Jewish Hospital Apartments has a growing population of younger, post college age white kids, along with the larger African American population. Crown Heights North is a mixture of Caribbean, African American, Hispanics of African descent (Dominicans, Panamanians, etc, as well as a growing Caucasian population. Then you have the section of CH that borders East New York and Flatbush, and the part bordering PLG and Prospect Hts. Weekesville and the area past the Albany Houses are another section.
The problems and tensions of one area are not necessarily the problems of another. A single block can change from crossing one street to another. We have blocks upon blocks of wonderful streets here. Yes, we have too much random street crime and violence. There are too many guns in the hands of idiots, and we need more police on the streets, and less tolerance for unacceptable behavior. We have young black men killing each other at a scary rate, and most of the reported crime in our neighborhood is black on black, not black on everyone else. We have much work to do.
But all of that negative behavior does not take away from the far, far more positive aspect of the neighborhood. In the vastness that is Crown Heights, there is much beauty, so much personal pride of ownership and self, and a growing realization that we are worthy of not only our landmark status, but of our collective pride- in holding on to what was good, while everything and everyone around us told us we were worthless. Everyday middleclass people kept this neighborhood together and standing. The recent influx of new homeowners of all persuasions have ignited a renewed passion for change in the neighborhood. We will take this neigborhood back from the minority who have highjacked it in the public mind, but never in reality. The people who live here, and have written in on this thread in a positive way, are a part of our renaissance. Keep tuned.
Um, silly 3:54, I think after reading over a hundred post you would get the clue that we are blogging about North Crown Hts. The Hasids are across eastern parkway considered Crown Hts south.
3:21,
If anyone needs to remove their head from an orifice, it is you, my friend.
Kindly point to any post on this thread that DEFENDS pedophiles in the name of Catholicism. I’m waiting…
Your analogy to black people/crime stats doesn’t hold up, either, especially because you have not provided any statistics about Catholics or priests. If you can provide a credible link that says something like, “50% of sexually abused children were assaulted by Catholic priests”, then I’d concede your point. But you have not done so, and cannot do so, because there is no truth to your point.
However, the point about African Americans and murder, rather than weaved out of whole cloth, is empirically verifiable, as the following link illustrates:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/oracetab.htm
Also, few, if any, posters on this thread have identified their race, so your contention that the above commentary on crime in Crown Heights is “white people talking about black people” is baseless.
Having said that, I wholeheartedly agree with your assertion that both types of crimes must be fought.
Silly rabbits, crown heights will never gentrify…due to the hasids
its really that simple
I love Crown Heights.
It’s where I score my weed.
That’s right 3:47, Yo 3:34, meet me on Nostrand and Park Place, I wanna introduce you to some Jerk chicken, cocoa bread and a stout. (This is how we do in Crown Hts.)
hey 344pm:
No one is saying Crown Heights is as safe as it gets. It’s not but I am saying that:
All the negative crime stuff is from the same guy who jumps on any Crown Heights post on this website. If anyone says, “Gee Crown Heights is a great place to live,” he jumps in and says, “It’s a crime-ridden hell hole.” It’s so tired.
3:34, pay these haters no attenetion. They missed the boat and lost their retirement in the Enron scandal…lol. Welcome to the neighborhood.
3:34 bought a crackhouse for 120K…its “worth” 360K now
congratulations!!!