Brit None Too Fond of Bed Stuy
In an article on the impending bursting of the bubble in New York real estate, Sunday Times (UK) columnist Dominic Rushe manages to make a rather offensive comment about the borough which he is temporarily calling home: I now live in Williamsburg, a horrifically trendy part of Brooklyn. I moved here because it was cheaper,…
In an article on the impending bursting of the bubble in New York real estate, Sunday Times (UK) columnist Dominic Rushe manages to make a rather offensive comment about the borough which he is temporarily calling home:
I now live in Williamsburg, a horrifically trendy part of Brooklyn. I moved here because it was cheaper, slightly, than where I lived in Manhattan. Now warehouse properties here are selling for as much as flats in Tribeca. Prices are even going through the roof in Bed-Stuy, a horrible and inconvenient area of Brooklyn with some lovely buildings and a nasty crack habit.
Nice. Real nice.
Big Apple Homes Ripe for Fall [Sunday Times UK]
this is all very confusing. i would like to understand bed-stuy area better, but have only been there a couple times. looked at a place yesterday on halsey and throop. of course beautiful building, but how is this area? walking from the nostrand and macon stop i know i wouldn’t be comfortable after eight. but how about getting off at throop stop and walking? i would love to hear some objective information.
Tell me about Quincy St. between Nostrand and Gates. Anyone know this area? There block, like the area generally, is an odd mix of middle class professionals, working class folks, and seemingly unemployed or underemployed folks.
I did hear Nostrand and Gates is particularly dangerous.
Hmm… I never noticed the boys on the corner of Nostrand and Gates were bloods. I never pay attention to them. Why would you? I have lived in Bed-Stuy since I was a little girl, I’ve moved to Manhattan and back. Its nice, but they should’ve opened the bistros and sushi restaurants a long time ago. As for paying almost a million for a house?!?!? In Bed-Stuy? HA! I would never. Maybe in the Gowanas…. or Dumbo.
Lets stop with the stupidity of race talk. I lived in Do Or Die from 77-97 & I visit my parents every year, and when I do so I still go to all the old hang-outs with the crew. It has nothing to do with race, if you look like a punk most likely you’ll get punked, its whatever this Puerto Rican did alot of fighting to let ’em know so to speak…my point is just this…if you don’t like Bed-stuy & it’s history pack up yo shit & get the hell on back to manhattan…Bed-Stuy is beautiful living there is a priveledge look up it’s history…
BROOKLYN STAND UP!!!
face it if you live in bed stuy you live in the ghetto
Let’s take a brief moment and review. Neighborhoods don’t create crime, the residents do. So whether they are black or white, green or purple, everyone can do their best to help combat crime and create alternatives within their repsective races. In fact, the “nice families” in Bed Sty can likely afford to remain there once the prices climb a bit more as I am sure they are working on going to college and retaining solid jobs. Quite frankly, I am perfectly fine with “gentrifying” an area with education, culture, employment, etc etc etc. If that means that a certain element are pushed out, so be it. That element is what is causing crime.
Bedford And Gates And Nostrand Is crackhead Island They Fight At Different times of the nights climbing in people windows sleeping on the side walk and pissing in the street and there are many young Bloods who take young girls to there house along with many friends
The Block Gates Between (Nostrand And Bedford) is Very Sad From Start to Finsh The Blcok starts off nice looking til i got to the coner of Nostrand where i thought this huge buiding was a hotel where i Seen All these Blood Dudes Standing on the coner Smoking Weed Playing Dice and disrespcting all the young females.
Bedford Stuyvesant is a historical community, and will always be a historical community. Bedford Stuyvesant has it’s issues, however so did the litany of communities in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Park Slope, Fort Green Clinton Hill, Cobble and Boreum Hill section of brooklyn were dilapadated, infested with drug addicts and dealer in the 70s, 80s and early parts of the 90s. In the 1960 Atlantic Ave. in the vicinity of Brooklyn Heights were inudated with prostitutes/street walkers. During the turn of the century and up until the 1980s Lower East Side, Delancy street, Hell kitchens had a drug culture that were impermeable. All the sited Manhattan and Brooklyn vicinity are historical. The writing is on the wall historical, its a harbinger to come. No one thought that FortGreen/Clinton Hill would be desirable, however Brownstones homes are going for 1 millions dollars in FortGreen and Clinton hiil/Bedford Stuyvesant area. I should know I brought two Brownstones in Bedford Stuyvesant, now called Clinton Hill and Stuvyesant Height, both under 250,000 in 1999. The individuals that are underminding and belating Bedford Stuyvesant, will be the same indiviudals that will be renting to me for $2,000 for a duplex apt in Clinton hill/Bedford Stuyvesant and Stuyvesant Heights in another 3-5 Years. Brooklyn is changing and Bedford Stuyvesant is part of the Picture. Atlantic Yard, Navy Yard and other projects will transform Brooklyn. Realty is Bedford Stuyvesant is no longer a ghetto. Much