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.
Back to add, I forgot Decatur and Bainbridge. Both gorgeous streets.
While Stuy Hts is certainly beautiful, don’t disregard the streets around Nostrand Avenue. Some of the best blocks in BS are there, and are one stop closer to Manhattan, as well as food shopping and major banking facilities at Restoration Plaza. Look at Macon, McDonough, Halsey, Hancock, Jefferson and Putnam, between Bedford and Throop. I like this area better than Stuy Hts. More and more shops and restaurants are opening up here as well. This area will eventually be landmarked, deservedly so. Houses here are not cheap, but for the most part, less expensive than Stuy Hts.
Good Luck!
Thank you all for your advice! I am definitely going to walk around and get a feel for the different blocks.
First of all, yes. The Utica stop is good.
Bed Stuy is very much a block-by-block proposition. I live on a *great* east-west block, and have one fantastic north-west corridor (Stuyvesant!!! Can’t say enough about the overall character of the folks I meet on this street!), but am surrounded by less great blocks, one of which frankly sucks.
Donatella is right about walking around.
Go to a lot of open houses. TALK TO POTENTIAL NEIGHBORS!!! Walk up and down, to all the different places you’d go, at all hours of the day and night. Say hello to people and chitchat! This is a Bed Stuy custom that is very useful for figuring out who you want to be near!
I love living here. It’s not perfect, and I chose my block wisely. If I lived on a bad block, I’d have moved by now. The good news is that people in Bed Stuy talk, and so you will know a good block from a bad one immediately.
Trust your gut, be nice to people. Bed Stuy opens up like a flower if you’re willing to play along with it. There are beautiful people living here, doing beautiful things.
Qates and Quincy are nice ? They are about 5 blocks from the park . But only 1 block to the projects ! Stuyvesant heights is the best part of bed stuy hands down but even that is getting expensive .I predict in two to three yrs everything along the A train will be over 1 mil
I have to agree that the Utica stop is nice.
I live closer to the Koskiuzko stop on the J train (due north of the Utica A), and this area is less stacked with amenities and the architecture is less drop-dead gorgeous than prime Stuy Heights… but I feel like I kinda get more for my $$.
I am close to Bushwick, and as an artist and lover of tacos, that’s important to me.
And I like having two trains to choose from. The J is really good, and my walk is easy. But sometimes the 15 minute walk to the A train is better than getting on the J. The bottom line is no matter what, service advisories or eastside/westside, I am definitely getting into Manhattan in good time.
Because I am northward and eastward in the neighborhood, I catch all the good stuff. I get nothing but bad delis right close, but am in easy bike/good longish walk distance of both the Bedford Ave corridor and the Lewis Avenue stuff. I can choose: Olivino, 258, Tiny Cup, Von King Park, Le Tokelour, and Bread Stuy (and Petit Bassam, but I personally have never had a good dinner there)
And of course, prices “out here” are much much lower.
Gates and Quincy near Tompkins park are very nice streets.
Take a Sunday afternoon and take a long walk. You’ll see for yourself. Good luck.
The blocks around the A/C are all very nice: Bainbridge, Decatur, Macdonough, Macon, Halsey, Hancock… From Nostrand to Malcolm X (and maybe further but I don’t really know the area past malcolm x) these are beautiful brownstone blocks. These are also the most expensive blocks in bed-stuy. It is great to be so close to the A/C, and we have good stores and restaurants compared to some other parts of bed-stuy. There are other nice areas, but it really depend how you define “nicest” and “parts to avoid”. This can mean different things to different people. You should do what I did before moving to bed-stuy (or anywhere): spend time in the neighborhood, walk around, talk to people, and you will know where to look for a house. Good luck!