Wall Collapse in Bed-Stuy
A reader sent in these photos of a wall that collapsed on a building near Franklin and Clifton this morning. Helicopters have been circling overhead and there’s a lot of emergency response personnel at the scene. No word on whether anyone was hurt. ABC is reporting the building was vacant. We’ll have updates as they…
A reader sent in these photos of a wall that collapsed on a building near Franklin and Clifton this morning. Helicopters have been circling overhead and there’s a lot of emergency response personnel at the scene. No word on whether anyone was hurt. ABC is reporting the building was vacant. We’ll have updates as they come in. GMAP
West of Classon the zip code is 11238. East of Classon the zip code is 11216. To me, that sounds like an official enough demarcation. However, blocks as far west as St. James (the street on which Biggie Smalls grew up) were once considered Bed-Stuy, so I guess it’s a free-for-all.
I’m just happy to be in BROOKLYN, baby!
NE would be the projects. SE not sure.
No, wasn’t me…i’m not that much of a poof!!!! I did see it though and probably still have the link somewhere
I was looking at a building on the NE corner of Classon & Lafayette…i think it has since sold. Do you know?
Hay Dave – you are that guy featured in the Times last year who bought that corner property – aren’t you? That was a sweet, enthusiastic portrait painted in that article.
Um, Dave, obviously we can all believe what we want, but the only people who carve off the blocks between Classon and Bedford and hand them over to Clinton Hill are people who wouldn’t deign to buy in Bed-Stuy (obviously not you given your monicker) and the realtors who feed off them. The Bedford Village School is on Franklin.
I assume you have theat Brooklyn place names book (it doesn’t have that lame ass definition of Bed-Stuy does it?). Let me refer you to the book “Neighborhoods of Brooklyn,” edited by Kenneth Jackson, published by Yale University Press which puts the neighborhood’s boundaries as being Classon on the west to Williams Place on the east, Flushing on the north to approximately Park Place on the south. “as early as 1790, more than a quarter of the residents were of African descent, and the area was occasionally referred to as Bedford Corners.”
Since I live right at Classon, I am pretty confident at this border placement. The eastern one, not so sure, altho your border would exclude Weeksville and Malcolm X, Patchen, and Howard. The Bed-Stuy House tour extended to Malcolm X last year.
There were a couple of vaguley amusing riffs on this topic on Brooklynian last year. Or so I thought.
As someone who worked as a public defender for a few years in the 90s in Philadelphia I am not the least bit surprised at the crime figures. While Philly has many lovely neighborhoods, it also has some of the worst blocks I have ever seen. Welcome to Bed-Stuy! I’m glad you feel at home enough to consider yourself an expert after moving from Manhattan last year (only a mild mixture of sarcasm and “come on guy give us a break” should be inferred from that last statement).
Putnam…other than that 8:45 comment that you got wrong, I like your posts.
Do you know where your name/street came from? Maj. General Israel Putnam (did he pronounce it Pootnam?) was leading Geo Washington’s army and was defeated by British Lieutenant Sir William Howe on August 27, 1776. It was known as The Battle of Long Island (also known as The Battle of Brooklyn) and resulted in Britain’s capture of NYC and Long Island, which they held until Evacuation Day, November 25, 1783. The Battle of Brooklyn was the first and bloodiest battle of the entire war. 10,000 British soldiers traveled to Bedford then headed south to the Clove Road to surprise Putnam’s 7,000 troops.
get your facts right Putnam…..
Chicago..1980-1994 then Manhattan from 1994 until I moved here in Bed Stuy last June
Been in Philadelphia with significant other since 1998..only on weekends!!
Philadelphia has a higher crime rate, including, violent crime, than Bed Stuy has had for many years!!! Go figure
However, I know the history of Bed Stuy inside and out.
Despite what may have been in the past, Bed Stuy is largely recognized NOW as being between Bedford & Stuyvesant
And Dave, give it up, Bedford-Stuyvesant, just isn’t named for the two streets. Didn’t you just move from Philadelphia anyway?
Oh grow up 6:39 – actually this site is now subtitled “Brooklyn inside and out”, and used to be something about an unhealthy obsession. If you can’t deal with one thread which degenerates (in the best meaning of the term) into a ridiculous and mildly amusing wander into the dark hearts of some posters (posters, mind you, who actually register and sorta self-identify unlike you oh faceless “guest”), then maybe you’re in the wrong spot. The is New York, New York, the city so fabulous they named it twice, not Topeka Kansas.
Obsessively discussing how big someone’s er, footage is, or how it “compares”, whether a house will “measure up.” Yeah, that’s gay. Or if you perfer, just two guys in the locker room doing what men do. And no, it doesn’t make them gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
After all haven’t gay men been the “driving” force of much gentrification and community renewal? Discuss among yourselves.