Non-Profit Building Up In East New York
“That area was so bad, it was like Vietnam,” Mary Stephens, 77, said as she stood on the stoop of her building in East New York and pointed south. “Most of those houses weren’t there, only that old one. Everything was a dumping place.” In another sign of just how far the real estate boom…
“That area was so bad, it was like Vietnam,” Mary Stephens, 77, said as she stood on the stoop of her building in East New York and pointed south. “Most of those houses weren’t there, only that old one. Everything was a dumping place.” In another sign of just how far the real estate boom has extended, an area that was once a bombed-out mix of empty lots and run-down buildings has reinvented and rebuilt itself to the point where builders are running out of land. Now the Industrial Areas Foundation, the non-profit group responsible for building 2,900 single-family homes, known collectively as the Nehemiah Houses, in East Brooklyn since the 1980’s has begun construction of six rental apartment buildings between Malta Street and Alabama Avenue that, at 4½ stories, will be taller and denser than neighboring homes.
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That’s right babs, because the real New York only existed in your lifetime….?
I used to work in and around ENY and I can tell you from personal experience that it has good access to public transportation. The #3 serves the southern part of the neighborhood, the C and J trains serve the northern part, and the L train the western part. Plus, busses can be found all over the neighborhood: the 20 runs down Pennsylvania Avenue, the 83 down Pennsylvania and Van Siclen, the 15 along New Lots, the 14 along Sutter, and the 12 along Liberty. I never had a problem getting around, whether traveling to and fro or within. The idea that you need a car is ridiculous. People get so attached to their cars that they think that life can’t go on without them.
What’s funny is when someone new to NY asks you what that means…a mix of “oh my god I’m old” and “I feel sorry for you because you’ll never know the real NY.”
Babs, I guess that shows how long I’ve lived in this city! 🙂
The phrase “two fare zone” is still used by people who have to take a bus to the subway, even though pay per ride metro cards now provide free bus to subway or subway to transfers. And of course unlimited cards provide, um…. unlimited rides.
In fact one of my co-workers used “two fare zone” just the other day, when describing the area he lives in.
They’re not 2 fare zones anymore — I think it’s a free metrocard transfer (or maybe irrelevant if you buy an unltd card). But psychologically (and time wise of course) there’s still a difference.
12:34, you were referring to my post regarding the train. You are correct in this case, but much of ENY is a two fare zone, where buses have to be taken in order to get to the subways. Having lived in an area in the Bronx that was a 2 fare zone, when I first moved here, I know what a drag that is, and how much longer it makes an already long commute into midtown Manhattan.
And you can grab a seat before all the hipsters squeeze on board!
stuy blkbuttrflie, These buildings are 4 blocks from the L train.