Video: A Taste of Bed Stuy
For those of you who haven’t gotten a chance to get to know Bed Stuy, check out this video that celebrates the nabe’s close-knit sense of community and architectural history and examines some of the issues surrounding the recent gentrification in the neighborhood. Our favorite part? A look inside the Akwaaba Inn on MacDonough Street….
For those of you who haven’t gotten a chance to get to know Bed Stuy, check out this video that celebrates the nabe’s close-knit sense of community and architectural history and examines some of the issues surrounding the recent gentrification in the neighborhood. Our favorite part? A look inside the Akwaaba Inn on MacDonough Street. Brownstone-y goodness.
A Taste of Bed Stuy [YouTube]
I don’t think white folks will ever understand black people.
CrownHeights, I’m not discounting her comments because she edited a Black female oriented magazine. In fact, i think her insights were dead one. Especially, at the end when she says that “ANYONE who adds value to the community is welcome”. The feminist bias comments might have been a might extreme. My apologizes to her.
However, i’m disturbed by the fact that a large portion of the comments here focused on negative black male stereotypes. Statements like “the majority of black men in NYC, and Bed Stuy are not employed” and yours about, “The black men here were very busy doing the thug walk down the street and hanging out meeting and greeting,” are offensive to me as a black man.
In one of the shoots, the brothers(one with dreads) were “meeting and greeting”, as you call it. One of the gentlemen appears to have a laptop bag or business attache. Unless this is the new way to deliver drugs, he looked to be working. Also, did you notice that the commentator was talking about how BedStuy is a friendly place, where neighbors talk to each other on the street. The image simply reinforces the commentary.
Anon 5:10, I’m sorry, but I don’t know. It was on the tour last year, so maybe not. It seems to be on the tour every other year or so. It could also depend on how many other houses they are able to get. They try to get a wide variety of houses in what is a large geographic area,(thank goodness for the shuttle buses!) and they also try to get architectural, stylistic and decorating diversity.
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what i said was–growing up there that was not so clear. and it’s not. it may be considered so now but north of bedfod wasn’t slways considered so newsflash.
“grand to bedford–dekalb to fulton street”
news flash, that’s bed-stuy.
CHP, do you know whether or not the house tour includes the Akwaaba Inn? It’s really a must see.
4:02…where is the library? Bed Stuy is a large area and it’s not all bad.
there are no bad neighborhoods just underdeveloped ones. in time, the grand to bedford–dekalb to fulton street (currently transitional community with no true identity) will be gentrified. it’s a simple numbers game. white people (the majority of americans) need living space & nyc will always be a draw. period. all in due time and nothing can stop it. when i was growing up in brooklyn, the area i just described had no real name. folks from bed-stuy didn’t even want to own it…so close to clinton hill yet so far. i think folks in that swath should name their territory and vigorously try to develop its business corridors. this is the key to developing this interesting stretch that is honestly not as beautiful as either clinton hill or stuvesant heights. yet, with love, care, and hard (economic developmental) work, this could become an interesting neighborhood as it is wedged between clinton hill, bed stuy, crown heights, and wilb.
I work in a library in bed-stuy, and a young white co-worker of mine who lives in the area has been attacked on her way home from work twice. Violent incidents also periodically occur here- one left the floor of the library covered in blood. It’s nice to see a better side of the neighborhood, but I’m still worried about walking to the subway at night during the winter months, and I wouldn’t want to move here, even if diversity were welcomed in the nabe.