How Bed-Stuy Looks From L.A.
The L.A. Times takes a lengthy look at gentrification in Bed-Stuy in a piece that focuses on how (or whether) the opening of the Mynt, the luxury rental on Nostrand and Myrtle, is changing the area. One side of the story, via Mama Ruth, an 87-year-old grandmother and neighborhood fixture who pays $200 a month…
The L.A. Times takes a lengthy look at gentrification in Bed-Stuy in a piece that focuses on how (or whether) the opening of the Mynt, the luxury rental on Nostrand and Myrtle, is changing the area.
One side of the story, via Mama Ruth, an 87-year-old grandmother and neighborhood fixture who pays $200 a month for her one-bedroom at the Marcy Projects, where she’s lived for 55 years:
Lately, though, a new crop of folks has been moving into the neighborhood, and they don’t talk to Mama Ruth the same. She might pass them at the corner store, or near the subway stop. They’ll nod and smile, and she’ll do the same. But for the most part, Mama Ruth gets out of their way, and they get out of hers.
Another side, focusing on one of the Mynt’s renters:
Everyone outside stared when Randolph Ambroise moved into the second-floor three-bedroom corner apartment at the Mynt. Ballplayers, cops, loiterers, corner store patrons. “Everybody was watching us, like we were celebrities,” he says. Ambroise, 29, a Manhattan real estate agent, and his two roommates were among the first tenants. They got a deal: $3,100 a month. One of the first nights, Ambrose watched five police cars with sirens blaring and lights flashing pull up to the corner. Officers jumped out and ran down the street alongside Marcy. Hoping to block the drama and gawkers outside, the roommates went to Home Depot and bought bundles of window shades…Ambroise had a car, but he didn’t want to pay to park it in the Mynt’s garage, and donated it to charity after it got broken into twice on the street. When he goes to work in a suit, people ask for change.
Manhattan Skyline Views, Brooklyn Projects Below [LA Times]
3:24 & 3:36 yep that’s me. I dont steal or make up names like the bold face lairs.
bxgrl, i’m getting jealous. I was just beginning to get to know you and now this. Let’s get a virtual room like Nokilissa & Biff did!!!
bxgrl, I shall buy you the biggest ring in the land. I shall bow down and kiss your feet and tell you I’m not worthy. I apologize for my multiple personalities, but you know deep down that all of them are in love with you.
– Bizzaro What aka The Guest
Every week its a different group of people ruining brownstoner.
Bizzaro- I don’t know what’s worse. You being you, or you throwing yourself at my feet. Hmmm. How big is the engagement ring you’re going to give me?
3:43 bought to you by The Guest and your welcome. Wuff!
3:17 = 3:24 = 3:36
The guests are ruining Brownstoner. They really are.
Why thank you 3:43. I blush- I really didn’t ask for the recognition. Of course the article neglected to mention that I was en route to my new hovel far outside the city because I obviously don’t make enough money to be allowed to live here in the City.
Somehow being told to leave by a person who calls himself Bizzaro What has got to be a hoot. I’m by no means poor, but the stench of the likes of Bizzaro, and 2:26 certainly make the idea of moving much more palatable.