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…
1:26 thank you for so effectively demonstrating the arrogant pomposity I was trying to explain.
A Denali? Why oh why Prospective Buyer do you drive a Denali? You’re getting 14 miles to the gallon driving in the city (and that’s the optimistic EPA estimate, and I’m assuming you own the mid-size, not the full-size Denali).
What a ridiculous waste.
Really 1:14 these lines don’t reek of a superior tone to you:
he doesn’t long for Manhattan. “I didn’t miss it for the past 10 years,†Mr. Andaloro said facetiously. The bohemian East Village of his younger days had become so bourgeois that he could barely recognize it.
“On Thursday nights, it was like spring break in Orlando,â€
“The homeys say ‘thank you.’ They say what I have done has helped the neighborhood.â€
Give me a break –
“The apartments have central air-conditioning, washers and dryers, security systems, honed black granite windowsills and kitchen counters, eight-foot solid-core doors, and designer window shades.”
yeah, what a slumlord.
Because it’s creative.
An ape could work on Wall Street.
cultural superiority is the only thing that gives some hope to lift up culture in this country, which, btw is severely lacking.
culture outside of cities in the U.S. is pathetic, at best.
nothing wrong with a little cultural superiority to lift us all up…even a little bit would be helpful.
1:05 – again from my perspective I applaud taking 60K and making 1.2M –
what I object to is that even though he made a 200% profit and is now a market-rate rent landlord – apparently he (and many others here) still have the nerve to deride everyone else as bourgeois. And everyone elses neighborhood as “Orlando”
Its funny this guy’s career is designing stores to sell overpriced useless crap to rich people and yet somehow because he lives in a predominantly black neighborhood and shares his vacuum he escapes being called a greedy developer or a landlord scum – which is what other similarly profiled or discussed people are often called here.
Why is designing chain stores for ugly scarves and handbags a more noble pursuit that working on Wall Street?
1:06
I didnt pick up any cultural superiority from the subject of the NY Times piece.
I interpreted the story very differently.
I thought, “Wow , what a freak here he has all this money to splurge on the house of his dreams and he chooses Bed Stuy. Thats pretty cool, thats where I live. Excellent, we need more people investing their money here rather than going to Florida, or California or Wherever. I am so glad another person with some money and good sense behind them someone sees the the potential to revive this neighborhood to its former glory, rather than let it continue in its decline
1:05
Me and my wife have had an identical experience as regards the nayb.
we love it and love our neighbors
and we live live much further into Bed Stuy proper
I have live in NYC for 6 years the 2.5 in Bed Stuy (versus 2 in the village and 1 in chelsea) have easily been the best
so screw all you neighsayers and neg heads!!