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]
Go Brooklyn, Go Brooklyn! F3ck LA!
This morning, I sat at my outdoor table with my coffee and read the entire story, which is one page 1. It’s only news in L.A. because a staffer made a hard enough pitch and got the go ahead with the story. It had nothing to do with L.A. or any of the issues we have with our own gentrification of downtown L.A. The writer (Erika Hayasaki) made Bed-Stuy sound like Disneyland (If she bothered to look south, Disney is under fire for blocking affordable housing near the park, in which many of their employees might have enjoyed living in). Congrats to the Brownstoner though, for being mentioned.
please leave us alone dave. you are so tired.
i am the only person who is responding to you. everyone else ignores every post of yours and you keep trolling away.
11:47 is correct…
$1,200 to $1,400 for a full floor one bedroom on a nice street.
$300 for an Ikea wardrobe because there are no closets
$300 for a gym membership at the new Y
No roommates…priceless!!
11;30 They’re not working hard enough then. For that matter, why live in the most expensive city in North America? High taxes, high food prices, high rents, high home prices, and major competition with millions of other people for every job?
One would have a better life in a smaller city, a city that have city tax like NYC.
Stuy Heights???
this part of bed stuy is still the wild west.
for 200 more bucks a month could you get your own 1 bedroom in Stuy Heights?
The irony is that in LA, almost all neighborhoods are still incredibly segregated, much more so than in nyc.
Over a $1000 a month is a big chunk of change for most working people.