A Walk Down New York Avenue in Crown Heights
With all the attention and discussion surrounding Crown Heights on the site recently, we thought this would be a good time to direct your attention to the Bridge and Tunnel Club’s photographic tour of New York Avenue, which includes this beautiful corner Mansion with side entrance. This reminds us of our GC’s house in Stuyvesant…
With all the attention and discussion surrounding Crown Heights on the site recently, we thought this would be a good time to direct your attention to the Bridge and Tunnel Club’s photographic tour of New York Avenue, which includes this beautiful corner Mansion with side entrance. This reminds us of our GC’s house in Stuyvesant Heights. Lovely.
A Walk Down New York Avenue [Bridge and Tunnel Club]
I think that the great thing about blogs are their ability to morph a topic into other issues that are relevant to readers/posters. To all the “Topic Police” out there, you need to understand ALL the issues of your neighbors and your neighborhood, not just about architecture. Other blogs have come and gone regarding Brooklyn real estate, but Bronwstoner seems to have gotten the critical mass of people interested in Brooklyn Real Estate in one place. That means the mandate for this forum has changed and expanded. If you have a hard time dealing with that, you’ll have an even harder time integrating yourself into a neighborhood as an “outsider.”
Last, when it all comes down to it, black and white don’t matter as colors. Green is the most important color that’s driving any friction here.
won’t all the people who can’t stay on topic and want to talk about the crap that is spread through every post start their own blog. I assume this blog was started to discuss real-estate not class warfare or mainly gentrification arguments. I came here for a knowledge of what’s going on in Brownstone Brooklyn. Why don’t you whiney bastards disuuss this other crap somewhere else……………
As I wrote to Brownstoner in email, anonymous comments mean that no one knows who is behind the attacks, etc. It can make for some disjointed reading, to be sure.
I’m willing to believe as told that my comments were deleted as mistaken pharmaceutical spam (vautrin-viagra?)
White/Black/Purple racism is wrong–it’s just fear. I’ve been on both sides–both as recipient and as the other.
It’s understandable that people want to call attention to the shift in Crown Heights–as if rapidly rising home prices are the only measure. The potential landmarking is probably a bigger deal.
However, what gets my ire up is the (perhaps unconscious) division between Brownstone Brooklyn and “Other Brooklyn.”
In the case of Crown Heights, it’s always had its share of beautiful brownstones, racial tension, and misunderstandings.
And sure, events in New Orleans aren’t helping.
Perhaps the new adversarial tone on the site is because of the shift from describing renovation of a particular home to a pundit’s view of Brooklyn. “Unhealthy obsession” indeed.
This site would be interesting again if it didn’t resort to just republishing sales listings and newspaper articles. At least Curbed has style. But then–it doesn’t have comments, either.
No one said race/class discussions are inappropriate, in fact quite the opposite, see Anonymous 9/6 post from 9:51am.
What people are getting tired of is the regular name calling and hostility of some posters when there is a mention of “their” hood on this blog. Some people seem to come to this site with an agenda of “oh, so now my neighborhood is worthy of your attention, well we don’t want your kind (read white and/or rich) here” and try to slide that into every discussion.
I disagree that whites feel terribly uncomfortable about gentrification and class and don’t want to talk about it; it’s just that most of the discussions devolve into personal attacks and often (not always) arguments about why it is ok for blacks to be bigoted against whites moving into black neighborhoods. There is no “discussion” with people who believe that racism is justified in certain scenarios so it is best not to feed the fire of a few bigoted posters.
Why is it that anything that touches upon race/class as it relates to real estate is so touchy/inapporpriate for so many? Actually, it’s another indicator of how uncomfortable many Caucausian are with the topic.
The reality is that race and class STILL play a role in America– politics, real estate …..
LOOK TO THE NEW ORLEANS CATASTROPHY FOR EVIDENCE!!!
P.S., This is coming from a Black gentrifier who invested in Clinton Hill, BedStuy and Crown Heights before the neighborhoods were given the “stamp of approval”!!!
I first read 9:45’s comment as “Bogie lifestyle”–now that’s what *I* aspire to. I’ll always have Greenpoint…
I saw the removed comment, it was something along the lines of “get outta my hood”. This isn’t a soapbox, this is a blog and the blog administrator can remove whatever he or she wants. If people don’t like that, they should not read this. I for one appreciate removal of off topic inflamatory or just plain rude comments.
If people are going to be paranoid, there are plenty of better things to be paranoid about. onward….
Be forewarned, Brownstoner can’t handle criticism of Clinton Hill.
Two comments have disappeared, and I’m sure this one’s next.