Bed-Stuy: The New Lower East Side?
The Times has a story about an architectural designer who’s moved to Bed-Stuy from Alphabet City and claims that Brooklyn reconnects me to New York City as a cultural and social phenomenon. Michael Andaloro lived on Avenue B for more than two decades and sold two apartments there for $1.2 million last year; he originally…
The Times has a story about an architectural designer who’s moved to Bed-Stuy from Alphabet City and claims that Brooklyn reconnects me to New York City as a cultural and social phenomenon. Michael Andaloro lived on Avenue B for more than two decades and sold two apartments there for $1.2 million last year; he originally paid $60,000 for the properties. Andaloro recently bought a Bed-Stuy building for $775,000 and spent almost that much on renovating the structure, which he says was a 7 on the squalor scale. The new Brooklynite says he doesn’t miss the East Village, which was like spring break in Orlando on Thursday nights and that his new neighborhood’s diversity and possibilities are like the Lower East Side of lore. And, of course, he’s banking on his Bed-Stuy investment eventually paying off the same way Alphabet City did: I always figure that a bleak or notorious neighborhood translates into cachet one day.
Rediscovering New York as It Used to Be [NY Times]
Photo by …neene…
Good point, 5:57. This comment applies to everyone, no matter what they choose–even if they choose to live in Park Slope, right? Or is it ok to trash Park Slopers?
Your post, 5:46 made me throw up a little.
In my mouth.
I love how in one post you managed to get in the fancy cars, a diss to Tilly’s but thumbs up for Bread Stuy, “easy” train access, Ft. Greene farmers market (a 30 minute walk), the new wine store, and family friendly attitude.
Wow…judging from your post, you’d think we were talking about Pleasantville.
Not one of the most crime and poverty ridden neighborhood in the 5 boroughs.
wow. there is never any perspective on this site. It’s as if anyone who doesn’t love park slope (or wherever you live) as much as you all do should be shot. This guy did what he wanted to do for whatever reason and someone found it interesting and wrote about it.
Sorry he didn’t poll some of you for what he should do that you would approve of.
last year, I sold a house in park slope to buy a condo in williamsburg. between the sale and decorating/layout changes/built ins/landscaping, etc…, spent about $1,150,000 ish. i’m sure that if i listed the reasons why i did what i wanted to do to live the way i want to, someone here would tell me that my own opinions about my own life are wrong. or better yet, try to tell me that park slope, a neighborhood i lived in for almost 6 years, is better than I know it to be from my own experience.
point is, people are different and different things appeal to them. for anyone calling this guy names, let’s take a microscope to your life and we’ll see how perfect you are.
“large number of mercedes, bmws, lexuses, and other luxury automobiles”
yes, these are the drug dealers cars….
to stuy heights prospective, you need not fear for the safety of your automobile. if someone were ever to see the need to steal your car, he/she would have to pass over the large number of mercedes, bmws, lexuses, and other luxury automobiles that line the streets of stuy heights first. your car will be keeping nice company.
as for services, petit bassam is a nice addition at the corner of mcdonough and lewis. olivino, on marcus garvey and macon, offers a decent selection of wines – you might know their clinton hill sister store. and foodtown on fulton and throop is better than any grocery store clinton hill has to offer. there are no decent delivery services that i have found as of yet – but that may be a result of my own lack of adventure to explore such options.
having made the move from clinton hill to stuy heights myself nearly four years ago, i can say with full confidence that you would be making a good choice. don’t get me wrong, i long for offerings to pop up in my backyard similar to that which you find on dekalb, or a fort greene farmer’s market to be only a short walk away. but, until that happens, i will happily enjoy the wonderful coffee and kind service you get at bread stuy (far better on both accounts than that which you get at tilly’s), the much quicker commute (i still smile when flying by the hordes waiting for the C at Clinton/Washington), and the family friendly vibe (i consider pretty much all of my neighbors to be my friends) that is stuy heights.
“I find a rich gay designer gentrifying a building in a poor black neighborhood with ultra-modern touches and luxury touches to be the definition of bourgeois and boring.”
I think that’s only because you haven’t been touched in the modern era.
Weird 4:30 – cause I find a rich gay designer gentrifying a building in a poor black neighborhood with ultra-modern touches and luxury touches to be the definition of bourgeois and boring.
Bed-Stuy brokers must be pissing in their pants from all the PR this article generated. Too bad the foreclosures in Bed-Stuy are increasing everyday–they’re almost at East New York levels.
Anyone attacking Manhattan as boring and bourgeois is fine by me!