What Does Bed Stuy Need?
Question to all current Bed Stuy residents or those interested in moving to Bed Stuy. What types of goods and services are lacking in the neighborhood? Specifically the area around the Utica Train Stop (Stuyvesant Heights). Where would you like to spend your money but can’t because those things aren’t offered in the immediate area?
Question to all current Bed Stuy residents or those interested in moving to Bed Stuy. What types of goods and services are lacking in the neighborhood? Specifically the area around the Utica Train Stop (Stuyvesant Heights). Where would you like to spend your money but can’t because those things aren’t offered in the immediate area?
I think a museum is a great idea, especially a hip hop museum or some sort of music museum dedicated to jazz greats like Lena Horne and Eubie Blake. Both lived in Bed Stuy. Something like that could (depending on the success) anchor small businesses, help keep them in business.
Let’s face it BS needs just about everything. Food options have to be at the top of the list, then a nice neighborhood bar.
barnes and Noble or a starbucks will come after we all open biz & stores and improve the area. If you care about
BS, take actions and don’t “waste” time complaining on the brownstoner.Dreams are good onlt if we follow with actions, otherwise this will be another pipe-dream posting.
Crown Heights also has the Brooklyn Children’s Museum….which goes to my point. I’m not in Bed-Stuy much, but I I live in Crown Heights and I think it’s pretty good w/out a Starbucks, certainly. Is it perfect? Definitely not. But it’s a great neighborhood in many respects, and I’m not sure how it might be made better with the addition of a Starbucks in particular.
The museum idea is fantastic. And not a hip hop one 😉
If it wasnt for the BedStuy blog I would of never known that the teddy bear orginated in BedStuy.
Oh, and BHO, plenty of lawyers and execs living in affordable $600,000 brownstones in Bed Stuy.
There is a museum (Weeksville), there is a bookstore (Brownstone Books), there is a college (Medgar Evers — actually in Crown Heights).
Hip hop museum would be super cool though.
“Not to mention the chance to improve literacy and promote bibliophilia”
Yeah, I’m a writer (and PR guy and former reporter), so I’m definitely in favor of these as well, and I agree Barnes and Noble is about as good a neighbor as any large brand.
We NEED to clean up the neighborhood FIRST! Both the undesirables (at every corner delis) and the streets! Those drug dealers are a deterrent for small businesses to prosper. I owned a retail store on Tompkins/Jefferson Av. Trust me, it is a challenge to maintain a decent store and support the local community.
I am so sick and tired of cleaning up after these ‘residents’ supposedly living in Bed Stuy. If you are living here, pick after your trash and your dogs poo-poo!! It’s only common decency and good hygiene. Chicken bones,wrappers,plastic and glass bottles being thrown everywhere – are’nt broken glasses a hazard to the kids around this neighborhood??
This is our neighborhood, and, if we do not take care of it, who would??
When this achieved,then decent shops and restaurants will start investing in Bed Stuy and hopefully thrive. We NEED the community to work with the precints for a safer and better ‘living’ quality in Bed Stuy. I have lived in Bed Stuy for almost 5 years, loved Bed Stuy and had been trying to get the local community to understand that we need to do this together for the betterment of Bed Stuy!!
I had this encounter with a lady and her dogs. Came right up to the front of my store with her 2 dogs. Let her dogs pooped and then walked away. I called to her and politely said to her ‘ma’am can you please pick after your dog’ her reply was ‘the city will take care of that’ and walked away!!
That being said…..
Barnes and Noble on Fulton would be great.. The neighborhood needs to invest on Fulton Street. there are blocks that are pretty much empty maybe a nail or hair salon here or there…