lol, well im glad you appreciate the finer things in life.
im cracking up right now reading the diehipster blog and out of no where i totally remembered my username on there!!! i registered a while back but forgot what i registered as and then it hit me like a brick to the head.
“it’s these kinds of statements that irk me… you like the vibe, yet you want to move in and change it… you complain about the lack of variet in sit down eating places and bars (read: over priced yuppie joints) and you say the grocery stores are terrible (read: omgz i cant live without my whole foods and trader joes). sorry, but you cant have it both ways.”
i hear what you’re saying – but that’s not what I did (or am doing)
i knew crown heights didn’t have beardo restaurants or whole foods. i didn’t complain. but when i had more money i chose to move somewhere that had some of those things.
currently, clinton hill has pretty much everything i need. if more stuff opens, cool. if not, i’ll be fine.
yeah – it’s annoying when people move to east bumblefuck brooklyn and complain when they can’t buy organic goat cheese on internet blogs.
DH, it’s not the ugly building. It’s a new building on the other side of Fulton, on the way to Classon. I pass it every time I drive my daughter to Brooklyn Tech (many, many mornings!). It is definitely the coolest building on Fulton St. east of the triangle one with the rounded edges (too lazy to look up the name) near the BAM theater.
Definitely scope out the nabe before you sign a lease! The western part of Bed-Stuy has more of an African/Muslim influence than Crown Heights with the strong Caribbean influence. It’s just a little different. But I think you should think some about why you moved away from Crown Heights and to Williamsburg, what you were looking for. But I don’t know you that well! This is definitely more Bed-Stuy-like than Clinton-Hill-like.
On the other hand, you could definitely find more space for the money further into Bed-Stuy. And I think you could probably find something similar in price and just as nice in Clinton Hill proper or even Ft. Greene, especially since you are looking for a studio.
I am still puzzled by the block of Fulton St. between Tompkins and Throop (2 more stops further in on the C train) that has about 400 African hair braiding salons. We walked that way one day with a friend of my daughter’s who was adopted from Ethiopia as a 10-year-old and she couldn’t believe it!
DH, it’s not the ugly building. It’s a new building on the other side of Fulton, on the way to Classon. I pass it every time I drive my daughter to Brooklyn Tech (many, many mornings!). It is definitely the coolest building on Fulton St. east of the triangle one with the rounded edges (too lazy to look up the name) near the BAM theater.
Definitely scope out the nabe before you sign a lease! The western part of Bed-Stuy has more of an African/Muslim influence than Crown Heights with the strong Caribbean influence. It’s just a little different. But I think you should think some about why you moved away from Crown Heights and to Williamsburg, what you were looking for. But I don’t know you that well! This is definitely more Bed-Stuy-like than Clinton-Hill-like.
On the other hand, you could definitely find more space for the money further into Bed-Stuy. And I think you could probably find something similar in price and just as nice in Clinton Hill proper or even Ft. Greene, especially since you are looking for a studio.
I am still puzzled by the block of Fulton St. between Tompkins and Throop (2 more stops further in on the C train) that has about 400 African hair braiding salons. We walked that way one day with a friend of my daughter’s who was adopted from Ethiopia as a 10-year-old and she couldn’t believe it!
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i used to live in crown heights circa 05/06, so i kinda know what it’s like to not live in such a sterilized, yuppified neighborhood (thank god!) i liked the vibe there alot – only problem was the lack of variety in sit down eating places/bars, and the grocery stores were terrible.
it’s these kinds of statements that irk me… you like the vibe, yet you want to move in and change it… you complain about the lack of variet in sit down eating places and bars (read: over priced yuppie joints) and you say the grocery stores are terrible (read: omgz i cant live without my whole foods and trader joes). sorry, but you cant have it both ways.
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DH are you still here? Classon and Fulton is ok but kinda ghetto. Of course I’ve always lived in ghetto nabes (we left Clinton Hill when it was becoming less so) and my daughter knows nothing else, but plan on some culture shock. Also that corner has a truly hideously ugly building featured several times on Brownstoner. Definitely worth a trip to see. It has gentrified some, but it’s more of an Afrocentric neighborhood–mosques, African video stores, etc. Some of that is on Fulton St. in Clinton Hill but it’s much more so from Franklin eastward.
Transportation is better than M4L/Donatella/DeLepp Clinton Hill because of the shuttle at Franklin Ave., which takes you to just about all the lines (2, 3, 4, 5, Q, B) that the C doesn’t take you to. Not as good as where I live and DIBS lives because it’s the C, not the A. And the G isn’t far so you can always visit your old nabe.
It took me a while to get used to living in Clinton Hill when I moved there in 1989. I thought I was such a pioneer, but the joke was on me–I moved into a perfectly functional neighborhood that didn’t really give a shit that a middle-aged white woman was moving in. It took me a while before I didn’t think everyone was staring at me all the time. They weren’t. Maybe 6 months and then I was fine. But I think you expect more from your neighborhood than I did. No more falling out of bed and having 10 places to eat within 2 blocks. There are 10 places to eat within half a mile though.
LMFAO you could have just summed it up one sentence, maybe two… as a white person it might be a little difficult for you. if youre a moonface, it’s gonna be more difficult for you. i love when white people describe their experience in the ghetto as if they were a martyr and as if people in the neighborhood should have just bowed at their presence and kissed their feet.
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Bite me, Rob. Professional people are supposed to be……professional!
gah! im agreeing with you! it’s annoying. im just saying that it seems like nyc is full of flakes, when it shouldnt be that way! these people live on california time or something.
fuckin fucking fuckin…… ok should be done with work soon. i think.
lol, well im glad you appreciate the finer things in life.
im cracking up right now reading the diehipster blog and out of no where i totally remembered my username on there!!! i registered a while back but forgot what i registered as and then it hit me like a brick to the head.
*rob*
and shit, all i need nowadays is a blunt, cherry flavored seltzer and delivery mexican food. i could probably move to staten island and be happy.
“it’s these kinds of statements that irk me… you like the vibe, yet you want to move in and change it… you complain about the lack of variet in sit down eating places and bars (read: over priced yuppie joints) and you say the grocery stores are terrible (read: omgz i cant live without my whole foods and trader joes). sorry, but you cant have it both ways.”
i hear what you’re saying – but that’s not what I did (or am doing)
i knew crown heights didn’t have beardo restaurants or whole foods. i didn’t complain. but when i had more money i chose to move somewhere that had some of those things.
currently, clinton hill has pretty much everything i need. if more stuff opens, cool. if not, i’ll be fine.
yeah – it’s annoying when people move to east bumblefuck brooklyn and complain when they can’t buy organic goat cheese on internet blogs.
DH, it’s not the ugly building. It’s a new building on the other side of Fulton, on the way to Classon. I pass it every time I drive my daughter to Brooklyn Tech (many, many mornings!). It is definitely the coolest building on Fulton St. east of the triangle one with the rounded edges (too lazy to look up the name) near the BAM theater.
Definitely scope out the nabe before you sign a lease! The western part of Bed-Stuy has more of an African/Muslim influence than Crown Heights with the strong Caribbean influence. It’s just a little different. But I think you should think some about why you moved away from Crown Heights and to Williamsburg, what you were looking for. But I don’t know you that well! This is definitely more Bed-Stuy-like than Clinton-Hill-like.
On the other hand, you could definitely find more space for the money further into Bed-Stuy. And I think you could probably find something similar in price and just as nice in Clinton Hill proper or even Ft. Greene, especially since you are looking for a studio.
I am still puzzled by the block of Fulton St. between Tompkins and Throop (2 more stops further in on the C train) that has about 400 African hair braiding salons. We walked that way one day with a friend of my daughter’s who was adopted from Ethiopia as a 10-year-old and she couldn’t believe it!
Gotta make sure the child goes to sleep! Gnite!
DH, it’s not the ugly building. It’s a new building on the other side of Fulton, on the way to Classon. I pass it every time I drive my daughter to Brooklyn Tech (many, many mornings!). It is definitely the coolest building on Fulton St. east of the triangle one with the rounded edges (too lazy to look up the name) near the BAM theater.
Definitely scope out the nabe before you sign a lease! The western part of Bed-Stuy has more of an African/Muslim influence than Crown Heights with the strong Caribbean influence. It’s just a little different. But I think you should think some about why you moved away from Crown Heights and to Williamsburg, what you were looking for. But I don’t know you that well! This is definitely more Bed-Stuy-like than Clinton-Hill-like.
On the other hand, you could definitely find more space for the money further into Bed-Stuy. And I think you could probably find something similar in price and just as nice in Clinton Hill proper or even Ft. Greene, especially since you are looking for a studio.
I am still puzzled by the block of Fulton St. between Tompkins and Throop (2 more stops further in on the C train) that has about 400 African hair braiding salons. We walked that way one day with a friend of my daughter’s who was adopted from Ethiopia as a 10-year-old and she couldn’t believe it!
Gotta make sure the child goes to sleep! Gnite!
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i used to live in crown heights circa 05/06, so i kinda know what it’s like to not live in such a sterilized, yuppified neighborhood (thank god!) i liked the vibe there alot – only problem was the lack of variety in sit down eating places/bars, and the grocery stores were terrible.
it’s these kinds of statements that irk me… you like the vibe, yet you want to move in and change it… you complain about the lack of variet in sit down eating places and bars (read: over priced yuppie joints) and you say the grocery stores are terrible (read: omgz i cant live without my whole foods and trader joes). sorry, but you cant have it both ways.
*rob*
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DH are you still here? Classon and Fulton is ok but kinda ghetto. Of course I’ve always lived in ghetto nabes (we left Clinton Hill when it was becoming less so) and my daughter knows nothing else, but plan on some culture shock. Also that corner has a truly hideously ugly building featured several times on Brownstoner. Definitely worth a trip to see. It has gentrified some, but it’s more of an Afrocentric neighborhood–mosques, African video stores, etc. Some of that is on Fulton St. in Clinton Hill but it’s much more so from Franklin eastward.
Transportation is better than M4L/Donatella/DeLepp Clinton Hill because of the shuttle at Franklin Ave., which takes you to just about all the lines (2, 3, 4, 5, Q, B) that the C doesn’t take you to. Not as good as where I live and DIBS lives because it’s the C, not the A. And the G isn’t far so you can always visit your old nabe.
It took me a while to get used to living in Clinton Hill when I moved there in 1989. I thought I was such a pioneer, but the joke was on me–I moved into a perfectly functional neighborhood that didn’t really give a shit that a middle-aged white woman was moving in. It took me a while before I didn’t think everyone was staring at me all the time. They weren’t. Maybe 6 months and then I was fine. But I think you expect more from your neighborhood than I did. No more falling out of bed and having 10 places to eat within 2 blocks. There are 10 places to eat within half a mile though.
LMFAO you could have just summed it up one sentence, maybe two… as a white person it might be a little difficult for you. if youre a moonface, it’s gonna be more difficult for you. i love when white people describe their experience in the ghetto as if they were a martyr and as if people in the neighborhood should have just bowed at their presence and kissed their feet.
*rob*
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Bite me, Rob. Professional people are supposed to be……professional!
gah! im agreeing with you! it’s annoying. im just saying that it seems like nyc is full of flakes, when it shouldnt be that way! these people live on california time or something.
*rob*