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]
Sorry, nobody stole the Bizzaro What name, after all. It was in fact me posting. I know nothing. I’m a sad and sorry sack.
I’m poor and can’t handle it so I should get out.
And sorry for any pain I caused bxgrl. I’m just in love with you and hate that you slight me and find me repulsive.
– Bizzaro What
You aren’t familiar with this part of Bed Stuy, Dave, yet you comment with authority on every single other part of Brooklyn…???
Hmmmm…
I see what you mean bxgrl. The trolls have overrun this thread. I think that 3:39 was the ONLY post that actually added anything to this entire thread. No, mine didn’t add much because I don’t know that part of Bed Stuy. I was just here to entertain the trolls who can’t think of anything else to say except to tell me to STFU or ask me why I’m here posting when its clear no one wants to read my posts (except apparently them).
Thank you 3:39
3:39 will not “get” why he got robbed when it finally happens. yes, most of the people in the neighborhood are perfectly nice and family-oriented. but you just need that one crackhead needing his next fix and spotting you coming home late by the pjs. it will be like that cartoon when the friends are stranded on an island and one starts to look like a chicken leg and the other one looks like a hot dog.
“You have to be a REALLY pathetic person to continue posting incessantly about Dave with nothing else to say.”
And what exactly did YOU contribute?
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Unfortunately, someone has stolen the Bizzaro What name. I know Biff/bxgrl/Dave troll took the name. You 3 are a bunch of sad and sorry sacks.
If you are poor and can’t handle it, get out.
– Bizzaro What
A little bit of sunshine arrived on a Brooklyn subway platform when a straphanger gave birth to a daughter named Soleil — French for sun.
Fellow passengers came to the aid of Francine Alfontent after her water broke at the East Broadway station.
One passenger bxgrl, who’s a school guidance counselor, called 911 and ran to a firehouse for help. A nurse named bxgrl comforted Alfontent while waiting for paramedics, and a social worker identified as bxgrl reminded the mother-to-be how to breathe. Others offered clothing for her to rest on.
Paramedics accompanied by bxgrl arrived a short time later and delivered Soleil, who weighs 6 pounds, 7 ounces.
who’s got 5 screen names 3:36??? I want to meet him!!!
My two roommates and I pay 2150 for our 3 bed in a completely decent building about 2 blocks from the Mynt. While I don’t see (or want) bed stuy becoming the next williamsburg, I have had zero problems with the neighborhood and like it a lot, actually. I don’t know what people are talking about, needing to run from the myrtle-willoughby g train, I come home pretty late sometimes and never really feel unsafe. And who is asking this dude for change? I dress nicely for work every day and walk to that train, and there aren’t any ‘beggars.’ Whatever. I agree that what the neighborhood needs is more moderately priced buildings, like mine, and less semi-luxury condos. There is a balance that can be reached.