Which blocks in Bed Stuy are the nicest?
Hello, we are thinking of looking for a home in the Bed Stuy area. Does anyone have any advice on which parts of the neighborhood are the nicest, and which parts to avoid? Ideally, we’d like to find a brownstone within a short walk of the A/C line. Thanks in advance.
Hello, we are thinking of looking for a home in the Bed Stuy area. Does anyone have any advice on which parts of the neighborhood are the nicest, and which parts to avoid? Ideally, we’d like to find a brownstone within a short walk of the A/C line. Thanks in advance.
Answer to 11:47 pm from yesterday, from “10:47 pm.” The projects are not that massive – there’s a home for the elderly on one side of Halsey and then a smallish set of projects buildings on the other. But also – we go to that park almost every day, and its proximity to the projects isn’t really an issue. There are great families there all the time. We avoid it at night, like any smart people would anywhere at all in NYC. But we’ve had no trouble and, like I said, really like living here.
I have to agree with 4:47.
We were looking for a house on a more “known” block, but found a house on Van Buren, on a street that looked vaguely pretty and had nice cars, but that we knew nothing else about. So we hung out. We talked to all the neighbors. Parked our car in front of the house and walked to dinner. Walked around at night. Walked around during the day. Walked to the train. Walked to the Met. Talked to people all the time.
Found out, basically, that every single thing about the house that we had no power to change is A-OK. The train is close. The neighbors are more than neighborly. It’s not scary. We can get to at least most of the things we need.
You may want to think about it like this. You absolutely have to spend time in the area. Walk around as has been suggested. But first find a house that you like. Then investigate that block and surrounding area. People always told me, Decatur & MacDonough were the best blocks between Lewis & Stuyvesant. But a beutiful house became available a bit further north on Putnam. So I started spending time on that block, walking around and talking to the people in the neighborhood, not only did I get to know my potential neighbors, I got a good deal of information about the house. I ended up getting the house at a considerable discount and found that the people that had just purchased the brownstones on both sides were GREAT people and very concerned about the neighborhood. We’ve got a good thing going on Putnam and I’m kind of glad its a bit below the radar. Not too difficult a walk to the A if you need it, but we have a car and prefer to drive to the ‘G’ train.
Neighbors are wonderful and everyone cares about the block.
Good luck in your search
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greene ave btwn bedford&nostrand!
Gates Ave, Quincy St, Clifton Pl, Greene Ave, and Monroe St, between Nostrand and Classon are very decent blocks that are also on the Manhattan side of the projects. They are borderline Clinton Hill, w/o the Clinton Hill prices and within striking distamce of the A/C/G trains at Nostrand & Bedford Aves.
The best are Chauncey, Bainbridge, Decatur, MacDonough and Macon Streets between Stuyvesant and Lewis. Hard blocks to get into so if you see something you can afford, jump on it.
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