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]
You have to be a REALLY pathetic person to continue posting incessantly like Dave does after it’s been made ABUNDANTLY clear that 99.99% of people on this blog don’t want him here.
Daveinbedstuy = Bizarro What
3:01 you are an idiot.The comment was in response to a question I was asked by 1:32. I guess the analogy was lost on you. The people who move into The Mynt are more like game in a canned hunt. If you were to read my comment at 12:53 and then the post from 1:32 it might make a bit mor sense to you. Or maybe not.-Mimi
3:06 I didn’t know it was upgraded to a scandal. Well, maybe in your mind.
3:06 – STFU and leave Dave alone. And while you’re at it, come up with an original thought.
Bizarro What
This article is talking about an area of Bedford Stuyvesant that is almost in Williamsburg. In the southern part of Bedford Stuyvesant you have a great number of whites moving to the area and they are welcomed. Many black people who rent in BS will be pushed out. My blacks can not get over the concept of paying $1600 a month for rent to live in Bedford Stuyvesant. This same thing happened to Ft Greene
Great advice from the troll who was the mastermind of the multiple screens/logins scandal.
People who move to the Mynt are being compared to child molesters now. I’ve heard it all.
Mimi…never think for a moment that you have to explain yourself to these idiot trolls.