New Macro-Nabe Trend Launches with "Tri-Hood"
We hadn’t read anything in the press yet about a movement to merge the neighborhoods of Bedford Stuyvesant, East New York and Brownsville into the appropriately named “Tri-Hood”, but this tag-up on the walls of the Louis Armstrong Houses on Lexington and Throop may be the start of a new macro-nabe trend. Remember, you heard…
We hadn’t read anything in the press yet about a movement to merge the neighborhoods of Bedford Stuyvesant, East New York and Brownsville into the appropriately named “Tri-Hood”, but this tag-up on the walls of the Louis Armstrong Houses on Lexington and Throop may be the start of a new macro-nabe trend. Remember, you heard it here first!
Triple Threat [Flick’r, photo by Kevin Mason]
sorry. where are you gettin your facts? waiting still….
we are you getting these facts from. please post…..i’m waiting…..
Yeah sure Bed-Stuy is “solid middle class community”
that’s why 44% of the population is receiving public assistance of some kind and 80% of the population are renters and the median household income is approx 30,000.
Look Bed-Stuy is beautiful and all but all the lies in the world arent going to make it what it aint
Nutball though he may be, Your Next Mayor’s rant did remind me of what NY was like when I moved here in ’77. Things have changed in lots of ways. (some good, some not – not relevant to our discussion) That was a walk down memory lane.
As long as below average intelligence bloggers are allowed to post stupid comments on this site, falling into the contemptible remains a high probability.
Maybe we should go back to a discussion about Prospect Lefferts Gardens and fairy tales of the oh-so- evil Paul Giamatti…this discussion is about to take a bad turn…
Get a grip, Tarazn…..
I’m glad to see some gang activity again. Finally, New York may have an edge to it again. We need more crime, more gangs, more shootings, more theft… Manhattan is turning into goddamn Disney Land and Brooklyn is turning into a Connecticut suburb. How many Saabs, Volvos, Audis and VW Passats will it take to ruin this borough? I say that crime is healthy in a city of 8 million people. It keeps people on their toes, it gives cops something to do than write up parking tickets on said mid-level luxury European sedans that incorporate safety, performance and luxury into one practical, user-friendly piece of machinery for gentrifiers and their families. I want to feel unsafe on the subways again. I want to walk the streets at night and be uncomfortable. I want to triple lock my doors and still feel uneasy. I want to see prostitutes again. I want to be offered crack. I want to see more homeless people begging. I want to see people smoking fucking cigarettes. I want public urination. I want squeegee guys. I want graffiti on my subway cars. I want to go back to the Bernie Goetz era, because that was when New York was New York. Times Square had peep shows and hookers. Brooklyn was a slum. The Bronx was burning. The Lower East Side was dangerous. Hell’s Kitchen wasn’t called “Clinton.” BoCoCa was never part of anyone’s vocabulary. DUMBO didn’t cost $1,000/sq. ft. In fact DUMBO didn’t exist. And the sign on the bridge said “Welcome to Crooklyn” not these cutesy little names that our borough president has thought up. My city has been destroyed by terrorists and gentrifiers. I want New York back to its gritty glory days! Who’s with me?
Hood is short for Neighborhood! “Tri-Hood” I don’t get because these neighborhoods are not even connected geographically. Ocean Hill borders Brownsville and East New York. Bed-Stuy does not. Bed-Stuy is surrounded by Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Bushwick, Williamsburg and Ocean Hill. Get a map! Further, Bed-Stuy is firmly in the Brownstone Belt and more closely associated with sister brownstone nabes Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. It’s the largest brownstone community in New York City with 6,000 such homes – double that of Park Slope. Bed-Stuy is rich in architectural history and culture. With the exception of government housing developments (roughly 10% of the entire nabe), it’s a solid middle class community with beautiful homes and tree lined blocks. Please don’t associate these communities in any way shape or form with Bed-Sty. Other than being majority black neighborhoods (as is Clinton Hill and Fort Greene), as for the purpose of this site, they have nothing else in common. Graffiti or no graffiti.