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 people are funny
Just remember what happen to the fort greene projects. It took over 20 years to try and clean those projects out and there is still MUCH work to be done over there. So,now you have people living in the Toy Factory and waiting for fresh direct. The view include the almost empty projects and the only store for blocks. I forgot the construction projects going on around the area.I must add the bridges-the great escape plan.
The sad part of what’s going, is how long are you willing to wait for quality of life.
To pay THREE THOUSAN DOLLAR and look at what….yes, they are laughing all the way home in their safe communities while you are doing what. Basically you been had.
Time are different those unit were for sale, now they are rental (I wonder why). Next, government programs, there goes the hood, back to reclaim itself. The money has been made,(by who). It is the american way, remember bears and stern, mortage melt down, and the list goes on. It’s part of the game. Some people win. The working joe and all his roomates,I guess you’ll just have to get more roomates,when the rental goes up. Good Luck
“Can’t you and your nine dumbass friends find something else to do.
Posted by: guest at June 24, 2008 8:49 PM”
– bxgrl
Did you see this article…?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/business/25exurbs.html?hp
Can’t you and your nine dumbass friends find something else to do.
um, 8:21, there probably 10 plus people making hilarious bxgrl signed posts.
they are more interesting than any other comments on this thread.
7:34 – you are like a fungus. Relentless, thick and mean.
I like how Dave didn’t even know where this place was and he lives just down on Stuyvesant. What number is your house, Dave?
– bxgrl
“the only thing you seem capable of doing is making a fool of yourself. If this is what you get satisfaction out of in life, you’re in deep trouble. I know you love slobbering over the keyboard, dripping and foaming at the mouth as you type your little attempts on the keys- relax. Take a lithium or a prozac. Try to be an adult. Have a good evening.”
Words to live by.
– bxgrl
Did anyone else love how today dave called everyone else trolls, was called out on starting this whole mess and then said nothing about it??
– faded guest post