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]
Like Spike Lee, Larry King, Hillary Clinton, Dr. Seus, Kaptain Kangeroo, etc. What’s wrong with having opinions? Isn’t that the purpose of this blog? To share opinions….hhhmmmmm?
Rock on. Finally some truth being told. The latest version of New York gentrification whether in Harlem, Fort Greene, Bed Stuy or elsewhere, involves racial issues and lets face it racial tension. The elephant in the blogosphere that this Board and its posters are in complete denial about is that the “new” brownstone Brooklyn is loaded with issues of race and class, two words no longer allowed in New York. Poorer black folks are being pushed out by white yuppies. Its a reality, and your volvo and your bugaboo will not change that reality.
what affirmative action thing? what are you talking about? please no catch phrases, loaded terms, slogans or code words. what are you talking about? plain english is quite acceptable if not preferred.
It was just…bizarre and out of context. We ought to stay on the subject is all and stop ranting. Everyone on here is so opinionated. Like Spike Lee.
Anon 9:55: because of the affirmative action thing?
why is it bizarre? because you disagree? the poster is entitled to his or her opinion.
Question for Stoner, aka Anon: What’s the average income in Fort Greene or Clinton Hill (please don’t include the more affluent sections of Community Board 2)? Even more entertaining, what’s the average income and rental percentage on Grand between Gates and Putnam (please include the corner buildings too)? I’m sure that you will see that these figures will be closely aligned with the figures cited for Bed-Stuy. Is that good or bad? I’m African-American, solidly upper-class, and educated (Ivy League). For the most part, my neighbors are the same in terms of upward mobility, education attainment level, community commitment, civic responsibility and good citizenship. Obviously there are pockets of extreme poverty and social dysfunction in certain sections of Bed-Stuy; no one is denying this reality. But in my “Bed-Stuy”, aka “our brownstone belt”, e.g. Fulton to Madison and Malcolm X to Nostrand, you will find a thriving population of educated, highly paid and successful individuals – the vast majority of whom are African-Americans (yes, contrary to popular opinion, some of us, despite our high six figure salaries and multiple advance degrees, do prefer to live amongst our own and serve as role models in “our community”). That’s the Bed-Stuy that I know and love. I don’t know any ex-cons, hoodlums, prostitutes or crack heads. Nor do they live on or near my predominantly African-American, beautiful, tree lined and family oriented block. You want to talk about doing a disservice to a community? Look no further than the patently false attempt by many of the bloggers on this site to paint certain communities (no matter how large and diverse)in the most negative light possible simply based on prejudicial stereotypes, very limited knowledge or lack of first hand experience.
What a bizarre rant.
FIRST off… I agree with Jason, this is a totally ignorant post. Secondly Bukjenim or whomever is equally as ignorant with his “hoodlum” comment considering that he’s probably never been there as there aren’t any “hot condo” material for his little Tuesday posts for his little blog and of course Brownstoner is going to back him becuase he always does even when the guy is dead wrong. THIRDLY – FREE MUMIA. Fourth I agree with the poster who made a point about the statistics in bedstuy, and it is true that aside from being majority black these neighborhoods don’t even border eachother but had it included the neighborhoods that actually do border bedstuy this wouldn’t have even been an issue. Fort Greene was just like bedstuy once upon of time it was majority black as well, there were also renters and ppl on public assistance but this was BEFORE white ppl decided Fort Greene was cool and trendy and they threw up a few shops, and a starbucks and now the property value has risen ridiculously and suddenly Fort Greene and the stuy can’t be in the same sentence with one another, suddenly they’re so far a part and a few years from now when white yuppies have priced themselves out of the cute little neighborhoods the’ll move in on the minorities, pushing them out of the neighborhoods that they once knew and rented by “80%” then I guess we’ll all just move to the “tri-hood” far away from the stroller pushing bloggers in Clinton Hill where they would have never entertained going before when black ppl were there. maybe we’ll all live happily, poor, uneducated, >30k income, renting in the housing projects among other “hoodlums” because thats what you want right? you just can’t wait until Clinton Hill and Fort Greene becomes the UWS? Well, although you’re all so pathetically ignorant I hope ppl of color view your attitude as motivation. As a resident of bedstuy, while I didn’t agree with the practice before today I can understand the trend of black ppl not selling their homes in stuyvesant heights to white ppl, I can understand why block associations are coming together to maintain the culture in the neighborhood and keep the likes of you from coming into OUR neighborhood and then having the GAUL to turn your noise up at us!