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]
Mimi again. I do not know if the vitriol from 2:08 and 2:26 were meant for my 12:53 post which was thought to be hers or at bxgirl in general. If it was meant for me I wanted to let you know that I don’t clean toilets. In fact I have a housekeeper. I planned my life out very well, own quite a bit of property and am now a stay at home wife and mother.Even though I am doing well I have compassion for anyone who has to struggle to make ends meet and I don’t think that it is fair that even though they work hard, the American Dream has become just that ,a dream for so many Brooklyn families.
Thank you, 2:24.
If anyone should know where to find an affordable place to live in the Bronx, it should be bxgrl. But she doesn’t becasue she is an idiot. That is why she doesn’t make much money. Too stupid to get a better-paying job.
Hey, 1:32 12:53 is Mimi, not bxgirl. No issues here I WAS JUST MAKING A POINT!! It would be better for areas to progress gradually, building low to middle class homes first then middle class then mid to upper class.I did not insult anyone with my post, nor was i saying that everyone in the projects is a thief. Yes, everyone has the right to live where they want but I still think that lux apts. next to projects make for easy ta rgets. You asked why should they adjust thierlife because others feel uncomfortable? Think about it this way. Should a child molester be denied a job as Santa at Macy’s because it would make parents uncomfortable sitting thier child on his lap? Yes, he may have the right to have a job, just not that one. It just would not be a good idea and neither is the idea of a Brooklyn with only the wealthy and the poor and no middle. GET IT?
@ 1;47
Did you not say, “…protect your sorry ass in a fire, and fluff your pillow in a hospital?”
That’s why I mentioned I served. Personally, serving was not a big deal. There are a lot of losers in the military and as a whole, it is filled with douchebags. Like anything else, you have to have higher standards than most in order to be with the best. Regular military = losers.
bxgirl = loser. A dirty, rotten leg. You can work hard all you want until the cows come home. If you’re still doing this & can’t make ends meet, obviously our doing something wrong and perhaps you need to rethink your game. Apply for better job, learn more in your present job and move up, take night classes for whatever trade you’re interested in, or ditch your loser boyfriend/girlfriend.
If I was as a miserable failure as you or your case projects are in this city, I would move. You would have been dead from starvation and/or died of exposure if it wasn’t for tax payers subsidizing your sorry ass. Your not entitled to anything!
i got through one sentence of the montrose morris post before i fell asleep at my desk.
I’m SOOOOOO sick and tired of people saying there is no place for moderate and low income workers in this city. That statement just shows what a total idiot Bxgrl is.
There are about 50 neighborhoods I could list off the top of my head in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, where someone could find an affordable place to live.
Just because you don’t think you should be relegated to a neighborhood outside Brownstone Brooklyn does not make your feelings justified.
That was well said, Montrose.
montrose morris = bxgrl
i’m foreign born but was raised here. Most of the kids i grew up with are as well. Does your math still work then?