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.
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oh just say GREEN DEVIL… cause that’s what it’s about. Let the brit say what he wants… you know people are still going to move to Bed Stuy cause we “newcomers” see the what others don’t!!! Clinton Hill is real iffy…BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I’M GOING TO GET SOMETHING OVERTHERE TO…HEHE I would prefer to live in Bed Stuy least your neighbors try to know who you are. We are moving on a wonderful block “Macdonough” and if you all know Bed Stuy you know you can’t go wrong on any block of Macdonough except btwn malcom x and stuy:) My next door neighbors on each side happen to be WHITE and they love the neighborhood. They were the one’s who told me about the “community” for my children and are already trying to plan get togethers for next summer… So let the sleepers sleep. My investment for this two family will be 4x as much in the next 5 years. And the neighborhood will be mixed with people that WANT TO HELP THE COMMUNITY!!! So let the Brit stay in Britian… I guess he didn’t talk to those british Couples that moved on Jefferson Last Summer.hehehehehehehe THEY SEEM REAL HAPPY!!!
WHITE DEVILS.
Those brits!!!
Unfortunately there is some truth to what he’s saying its just his tone and the way that he condescendingly puts it that is dissappointing. Maybe if the drug of choice for the druggies in Bed-Sty was heroine then he wouldn’t have been so harsh.
Lets face it Bed-Sty is just like every area in Brooklyn (including his W’Burg)it has its good areas and its shady parts. We all stick mostly to the nice parts and only go to the other parts when we really have to.
Nikki I too was VERY close to buying a BEAUTIFUL place on Macdonough $629,000 well preserved details HUGE and a lot of floors but i settled for our place in Lefferts Gardens which was a little over what you paid. Smart move on your part and yes patience is all it takes.
Even though we can afford a place thats going for $1.5 million I convinced my husband not to make that move. He smiles every time he walks in and not having to deal with tenants and having more money in his pockets. I prefer what we have now plus a wonderful vacation beach house in the tropics over anything going in the millions.
Sorry to disappoint the writer, but I know several people who have been mugged (one at gunpoint) in his “horifically trendy” neighborhood. Ditto in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill… Unfortunately crime is everywhere.
i found the british writer’s comments to be nasty. don’t a lot of areas have crime and drug problems? it may exist in bed stuy worse than in other neighborhoods, but i think things are much better than they used to be. i doubt the writer has ever been to bed stuy. sounds like bed stuy circa 1980.
also have to keep in mind that he was writing for a british audience. most of whom probably don’t know new york that well, certainly not bed stuy and for whom he has to uphold new york’s rough and tumble and crazy image because that’s what they want to read about.
I agree Bed Stuy does have a crime and drug problem but, not like it used to… look at Ft. Green, Clinton Hill, hell Harlem!! People change and so do the times. I’m a black woman with family that just purchased a Brownstone in Bed Stuy not because it was “the new hot place”, but because I love the area. When I moved to NY five years ago I moved to Bed Stuy in a Brownstone and feel in love. I married and convinced my new husband (who is in finance) to buy in Bed Stuy… He was reserved and scared to do it but, now he see’s the light:) We weren’t crazy enough to go out a pay 900,000 for a Stone in the Stuy (even though it almost happened) we were advised to be patient and 10 months later we closed on a sweet deal in the high 300’s(UNHEARD OF THESE DAYS) We have work to do but, heck we can make it look like GOLD.
I’m a black person who recently moved to bed-stuy and like many newcomers wish there were more serices and less crime. I think what I take exception too is the writers tone. I have several white friends who feel pretty comfortable in the neighborhood because thay don’t mind living around black people. They share the same concerns I do but also ahve, in their previous lives, been exposed to black people.
I agree with Rich Dad. I think anyone who isn’t buying now is foolish. No matter what the price or income, you can afford it and you will make money.
I think Rich Dad was being sarcastic.