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]
Social Worker – thats funny – no
Live w/in Brooklyn North
“Your presentation of the stats try to paint Bed-Stuy in a negative light, and doesn’t address the reality of the middle class that has always been there”
I am not “painting” anything I am presenting statistical evidence related to crime and poverty, which has been ignored by the vast majority of posters here who have done nothing but address the middle class
The above post was me.
Anon 11:05 and 11:27 (please give yourself a name)
While I don’t doubt your concern and hard work, I think your views are too skewed by that work. Police, social workers, first responders, etc, by the very nature of their jobs get to see the worst of people and their situations. You are only called in when things go horribly wrong and when crime and tragedy occur. I, and I think all of us defenders of these neighborhoods, are trying to accentuate the positive, to quote an old song. Much must be done to eliminate the poverty, and therefore much of the crime in our nabes. We don’t want the “pockets” of crime and hopelessness any more than anyone else. We all need to talk less and do more, and I hope the social programs I am involved with can help that. But to say that it was (or is) neigh on to impossible for people to live in and raise families in a Bed Stuy is just not true. It wasn’t true 15 years ago, and I lived there then, and saw many, many families do just that, and it’s not true now. Yes, crime stats are too high then and now, but what is your point – that no one should try to make things better, that thinking people should abandon these neighborhoods to the small percent of the population that is committing 90% of the crime? That’s part of what got the Bed Stuys of the city into that situation in the first place. What better revenge to the nay sayers and the criminals than to revitalize, renew and restore? To be able to say “I live in Bed Stuy” (or CH, PLG, etc) and have people envision beautiful and safe communities where people can raise families and be proud of where they live.
“Anti Bed Stuy social worker(?), PLEASE, PLEASE tell us where you live! Mill Basin? Staten Island? Howard Beach?”
What difference does it make? Besides, you’re already making assumptions about where s/he lives.
Anti Bed Stuy social worker(?), PLEASE, PLEASE tell us where you live! Mill Basin? Staten Island? Howard Beach?
Carroll Gardens ain’t too pretty down near Huntington and w. 9th either. Nobody talks about that. I’d rather live in Canarsie.
Homicide statistics don’t lie but they do not tell the whole story either. What you know and I know and Brown Bomber know and CHP knows are all part of the picture. Your presentation of the stats try to paint Bed-Stuy in a negative light, and doesn’t address the reality of the middle class that has always been there, and I daresay who have opinions based on 24/7/365 lives in the neighborhood. Do you honestly think they were not aware of the problems? I guarantee you they know heartbreak and poverty firsthand. More than you even. They never denied it- but they stayed and kept the neighborhood alive. My anecdote about my gay friend simply illustrates the ridiculousness of prejudice. You want to use your statistics to prove the Bed-Stuy was a terrible place to live. Why can’t someone say what was wonderful or good about their neighborhood? Especially someone who lived there?
And to your point about all nabes having higher crime rates 15 yrs ago – yes but vast majority at NO WHERE near the rate as Bed Stuy- in fact Brooklyn Hgt (84) and Cobble Hill(76) and Park Slope (78) 15 yrs ago didnt have the crime of Bed Stuy TODAY.
Those undeniable homicide statistics tell much more about the area then your ridiculous anecdote about a gay rollerskater. Each statistic represents a dead person – a son, a daughter some innocent some not so but each a [formerly living] commentary on the social problems of the area and community which they lived
I am very familiar with Bed-Stuy having been in law enforcement for many years covering Bed-Stuy (no not a cop). I know the families whose sons or daughters were killed when simply walking to the store or going to work or over a pair of shoes. I have been to the homes countless families having mothers desperately cry about losing their sons to the drug trade on the corner. I have counseled the 15 year old Bed-Stuy moms being beaten by her bf.I can go on and on but in the end I know plenty about the nabe and its people as well as the many problems that EVRY resident in Bed-Stuy lives too close to and often must face in order to just live the life that any American should be entitled.
And the final tally is that Bed-Stuy et al had insane amounts of crime in the late 80’s early 90’s and it made it a VERY difficult place to live and raise a family and put the MANY good people who live there in fear and unnecessary risk. And today while MUCH lower; the level of crime is still higher than what residents in most other NYC nabes have to face.