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]
Photo by ultraclay!.
What your fascination and fixation on things anal tells us one thing. Everyone here knows that. Once you’re on the DL you never go off!!!!
Hey Dave, is that sheet rock on your head? Your “Business Partner” was showing you good jam…..
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
What…if you want the future asshats to listen to you then you have to improve your English. As it is you come off as a raving lunatic.
“The area of Bed-Stuy near Restoration Plaza has lots of services, including trains (A/C/LIRR), supermarkets, banks and plenty of mom & pop shops.”
That’s funny! Did the MTA dig up a tunnel last night? Asshat you mean Nostrand Ave, right?
“what, as a former real estate agent, you helped create the mess you bitch about. Shut up with your crazy crap already.”
Asshat, First I’m a Broker. Second the houses I sold was to people with the criteria to purchase a home income, credit and desire to be a homeowner. Not one house I sold went into foreclosure and I keep in touch with them.
“A/C/LIRR), supermarkets, banks and plenty of mom & pop shops.”
Name a couple of these “Moms and Pops” shops..
“Shut up with your crazy crap already”
Nope I want to plow it up your asses. Douchebag!
To future Asshats: The present Asshats are trying to get you to move to a drug and crime infested areas. They want you to make the same mistake like them but, don’t be fooled! Bed Stuy Brownstones are not worth 900k, believe me!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
Please, don’t anyone bite on the 90 days thing.
Boy you guys are so disillusioned it’s not funny. I was born and raised in Bed Stuy! Plus if you think Bed Stuy has the amenities to justify paying all that money, you are going be in big trouble. Asshats the same things was said right before the great depression. Asshats say “we have reached a high plateau” and ” Prices will never come down” but the market crashed. The Banks has to right off trillions of dollars in bad loans and the masses of asses are trying to justify their insanity on a message board. You have 90 days, please enjoy..
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
The area of Bed-Stuy near Restoration Plaza has lots of services, including trains (A/C/LIRR), supermarkets, banks and plenty of mom & pop shops.
Bed-Stuy, as many have mentioned here before, is huge. Taking one block and trying to make assumptions about the entire neighborhood just doesn’t work, but it does get people talking (and fighting) which might be what teh NYT is trying to do.
what, as a former real estate agent, you helped create the mess you bitch about. Shut up with your crazy crap already.
Whosa….whosa…my breathing method….I am just saying that whenever i hear someone from Stuy Heights separate themselves
from the rest of us it pisses me off.. look we are all not going to benefit if we do this we are a community and a very large one so why don’t we start acting like one!
intra- and inter-neighborhood hypersensitivity syndrome