Thursday Links
Albany Finishes Rare On-Time Budget Early This Morning [NY Times] Census: Columbia St the City’s Gayest Neighborhood [BK Paper] RV Community Suing Over ‘Illegal’ Burg Eviction [BK Paper] Former PTA Treasurer at P.S. 29 Pleads Not Guilty [City Room] Underground Railroad Stop Sells for $1.93M [Curbed] Brooklyn Among NY’s Unhealthiest Counties [MSNBC] Campaign To Save…
Albany Finishes Rare On-Time Budget Early This Morning [NY Times]
Census: Columbia St the City’s Gayest Neighborhood [BK Paper]
RV Community Suing Over ‘Illegal’ Burg Eviction [BK Paper]
Former PTA Treasurer at P.S. 29 Pleads Not Guilty [City Room]
Underground Railroad Stop Sells for $1.93M [Curbed]
Brooklyn Among NY’s Unhealthiest Counties [MSNBC]
Campaign To Save Church Spires Gains Steam [SB]
Tourists Haven’t Heard Of ‘BoCoCa’ [Gothamist]
Bloomberg Loses Budget Battle [Gotham Gazette]
FCR Reports Increased Earnings [AY Report]
where is a link to that ad?
BedstuyMaven,
How interesting! I stand corrected, thank you!
Bob Marvin – The Brooklyn Eagle has an ad from 1875 advertising brownstones in Boerum Hill.
Bob, a lot of truth in that, re: Bed Stuy. They were definitely two separate communities, with “Stuyvesant Hts” actually being the one made up by real estate concerns, as far back as the early 1900’s. Bedford came out of the real town of Bedford Corners, established in the late 1600’s, early 1700’s. The preliminary survey of Bedford Stuyvesant, prepared by the LPC around 1976, says that the Brooklyn Eagle started using the term “Bedford-Stuyvesant” in 1931, and as your friend said, referring to any part of central Bklyn with black people, especially when there was crime.
BedstuyMaven,
The name Cobble Hill dates back to colonial times as the name for an actual hill (leveled by the Brits, to prevent it’s fortification). It was revived when “pioneering”brownstoners crossed Atlantic Avenue from Brooklyn Heights, in search of less expensive houses. Boerum Hill is a completely made up name, from a few years later. There was a Dutch colonial family that owned land in the vicinity, but there never was a hill. There’s certainly nothing wrong with making up names to help identify and define a neighborhood. I’d rather celebrate than deny the practice.
The name “Bedford Stuyvesant” was also made up, albeit with less benign intent. When I represented PLG at meetings of the old Brooklyn Brownstone Conference in the mid-’70s the representative of that area insisted that there was no such neighborhood. She was representing the neighborhoods [plural] of Bedford and Stuyvesant Heights. The Bed-Stuy name, she said, had been made up by the Daily News, and other tabloids, to stand for any part of Brooklyn that had old houses, was inhabited by black people, and had a gruesome crime they could report.
In California in general and specifically in Los Angeles, votes tend to support tax increases that go for specific infrastructure projects, including transit and school construction.
Actually, the names Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill have date back the 1800’s as does Bedford Corners. When LPC surveryed Brooklyn in the 1970’s and drew the boundaries for potential historic district the used the histrorical names for the districts.
Interesting, benson. I also remember you saying that the VFW had a terlet.
benson, very interesting!