Bed-Stuy, Do or...?
About a month ago, an L.A. Times piece on Bed-Stuy had a gentrification-is-happening- not-everyone’s-thrilled take on the neighborhood. Yesterday, our paper of record weighed in with a more nuanced examination of how Bed-Stuy is evolving: “a changing neighborhood not quite changed, transforming not in broad strokes but in half-steps.” The article notes that average sales…
About a month ago, an L.A. Times piece on Bed-Stuy had a gentrification-is-happening- not-everyone’s-thrilled take on the neighborhood. Yesterday, our paper of record weighed in with a more nuanced examination of how Bed-Stuy is evolving: “a changing neighborhood not quite changed, transforming not in broad strokes but in half-steps.” The article notes that average sales prices in the neighborhood have edged down recently, and that it has one of the highest rates of foreclosure in the city. Some well-heeled folks who moved to the neighborhood in the past year or so, meanwhile, say they’re frustrated with the area’s lack of amenities. We just wish there was more variety nearby, for places to go out, says a 25-year-old law student who’s lived in Bed-Stuy for a year and now plans to move to the East Village. You just wish you could go out and have different types of bars and night life nearby. Still, there’s plenty of redevelopment in the area, and Petra Symister, who writes Bed-Stuy Blog, says the neighborhood’s rebirth “is happening in fits and starts, kind of a jerky progression. Henry Butler, 41, chairman of Community Board 3, notes that in his view, more affordable development is particularly welcome: “It’s about income…I’m not looking to Harlemize Bedford-Stuyvesant. My emphasis is on the working people.”
Growing Pains Come and Go in Bed-Stuy [NY Times]
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Partner is a “she” jackass
“My business partner tried to get in Peaches Sat night and it was jam packed”
No Dave, you meant.
“My business partner was in my Peaches Sat night and he was packing jam”
The What
Someday this war is gonna end….
StuyHeightsGuy, I had the same reaction you did. All they did was write about the area right around the MYNT. That area has very little in common with the brownstone areas to the south. Lazy journalism.
I’m still in shock that there’s a $600K condo for sale on Myrtle. I was looking around at the web and 8 years ago you could buy a $600K coop on Beekman Place in Manhattan… (Although I assume the maintenance was probably higher.)
I do it every day Brooklynnative…about 12-15 mins to B’way/Nassau…25 mins to 34th street….from Utica A stop.
Always seems faster on the way home though!!!!
My business partner tried to get in Peaches Sat night and it was jam packed
I read that this article and then took a walk around my part of Bedstuy (Stuyvesant Heights). Very very very different places. I usually let people talk bad about bed-stuy if they please. Really doesn’t affect me personally one way or the other. However, I agree with tinarina, it is pretty journalistically lazy to write this article and then make generalizations about an entire neighborhood. Nostrand and Marcy? C’mon?
The blocks surrounding the Stuyvesant Heights area (an area about the size of Fort Greene) are amazing. Crime is held in check and the amenities are coming. Not in fits and starts, but what seems to be a good pace of organic growth.
We purchased in bed-stuy for the long term (as did most of my neighbors). I think that a slight reduction in average prices is a good thing. It will encourage more young families to purchase in the neighborhood and help make it better overall.
I find it pretty interesting that Bedford Stuyvesant gets this much press (and this much airtime on Brownstoner). I have to believe that all this press is a net positive for the ‘hood. Thank you New York, LA and Brownstoner!
Yes, things are beginning to move on Lewis Ave. There’s a florist and wine bar going in and I heard that work has begun on the Italian pizza restaurant on the corner of Lewis & Halsey.
On a negative note I heard that a few of the windows were broken at Stuyvesant & Macon storefront. Haven’t been home yet to check it out but he was foolish not to put the shutters up!!!
I guess you don’t spend much time in Bed Stuy Bobb. The A train express gets you into the city in about 20 minutes. Takes me longer than that from Park Slope.
I read the article and felt that it was pretty limited in scope to the area around Myrtle and Nostrand. Bedford-Stuyvesant is so large and it didn’t seem very relevant to other sections of the neighborhood. Stuyvesant Heights may have similar issues to those discussed in the article, but I really didn’t feel like I was reading about my neighborhood. If anything, I feel more confident about Stuyvesant Heights than I did this time last year. There seems to be a real sense of community and transportation to Manhattand and downtown Brooklyn are very good.