Fascinating Claim: East New York as the Next Harlem?
Who could’ve predicted this? Some folks—Marty Markowitz, for one—say notoriously downtrodden and crime-ridden East New York is undergoing a renaissance and could become “the new Harlem.” There’s been a lot of demand for home ownership options in the area, most notably at the massive condo conversion MeadowWood at Gateway, where prices range from $110,500 to…
Who could’ve predicted this? Some folks—Marty Markowitz, for one—say notoriously downtrodden and crime-ridden East New York is undergoing a renaissance and could become “the new Harlem.” There’s been a lot of demand for home ownership options in the area, most notably at the massive condo conversion MeadowWood at Gateway, where prices range from $110,500 to $350,000. “There is no question that the neighborhoods with higher rates of home ownership have the greatest stability, schools and community services,” says Markowitz of how ENY is changing. “Brooklynites outside of the ‘Brownstone Belt’ don’t realize that we have an affordability issue in certain neighborhoods and we’re losing families to other areas such as New Jersey. We’re committed to not letting that happen.” Other developments are also boosting the sprawling neighborhood’s profile, including the Related Companies Gateway Center shopping mall, which has a Target, Home Depot, Best Buy, and a supermarket and is going to be expanded in coming years with more big-box retail. Another large ENY home-ownership project, Nehemiah Housing Complex, is also currently being built. The complex will bring more than 2,000 middle-income units to the neighborhoods, with prices starting at $158,000. “Every place has its time,” says Fillmore Real Estate’s John-Paul Ho, who heads the team selling MeadowWood. “Now it’s East New York. It’s like a Cinderella story for the entire area.”
Is East New York the New Harlem? [NY Daily News]
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10:46. Don’t worry. These are the same people who hate Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights and every other neighborhood they have never been to. Feel proud that you are now in the glorious company of other “fringe” areas that will, some day very soon, be sought after locations to live.
Oh now we edit the page huh! You knew when you posted this crap about ENY this was going to happen. I said it before and I will say it again. This is a covert racist bullshit blog. Oh BTW I you think gentrification is going to work out, the economy is going to kill you.
All of you are bag holders if Brownstones in minority neighborhood!
Plus Bear Sterns is imploding! They my be Insolvent by this afternoon! I hope this whole thing crash! Bring it on baby!!!
The What (Reping The Hood)
Someday this war is gonna end….
Shout out to my peeps in ENY
Inner city Detroit is nicer than East New York.
So is Compton.
Some of the interest comes from spill over from Queens as an expanding South Asian and Carribean community look for cheaper options than in southeast Queens.
10:42
STOP LYING!!!! NAME ONE STREET;;;;;;;;;;;
GO BACK TO KANSAS ASSWIPE!!!!
i’ve been to east new york.
it’s disgusting and ugly.
i find almost nothing redeeming about it.
gawd i hate it when realtors do the “____ is the new ____”, they’re just inviting scorn. that said, i have high hopes that ENY is far enough off the gentrification map that reasonable plans for continued affordable housing can be made. brownstone snobs may just see a slum but there’s actually a lot of nice housing stock in some parts of the neighborhood. people like to paint ENY with one brush, just like they used to do to bed stuy (okay some still do).
10:17 my comment was clear. fuck off! I own. look elsewhere for your term paper.
10:06 –
Have you ever BEEN to ENY? Have you ever been to Cypress Hills? There are not many brownstone buildings but there are plenty brick row houses, tree lined blocks, and grand Victorian Homes, not to mention parking.
I was born and raised in FG and that made ENY look like paradise and now it’s yuppie land. Yes every town in BK WILL be gentrified sooner or later. Change is the only thing in life that is certain.
The housing stock is different yes, but there is a housing stock with just as much history as FG, CH, BS, PS, and any other town in BK. It’s OK I understand many (not all) posters here do not know much BK History and are newcomers. But please do your research before making your ignorant comments.