Open House Picks
Carroll Gardens 447 Sackett Street Brooklyn Bridge Realty Sunday 12-1:30 $1,299,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Lefferts Gardens 42 Midwood Street Jackie Wong Saturday 3-5 $1,150,000 GMAP P*Shark Midwood 1431 Glenwood Road Fillmore Sunday 12-1:30 $969,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 366 Putnam Avenue Century 21 Sunday 11:30-1 $739,000 GMAP P*Shark
Carroll Gardens
447 Sackett Street
Brooklyn Bridge Realty
Sunday 12-1:30
$1,299,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Lefferts Gardens
42 Midwood Street
Jackie Wong
Saturday 3-5
$1,150,000
GMAP P*Shark
Midwood
1431 Glenwood Road
Fillmore
Sunday 12-1:30
$969,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
366 Putnam Avenue
Century 21
Sunday 11:30-1
$739,000
GMAP P*Shark
true I moeved to southern part od Bedford Stuyvesant really Stuyvesant Heights and I love it here. I Think the Northern part will change but that will happen in time… The really only bad part about the Southern end of the area is Fulton Street. It needs to do a 180 like now… I think I have seen one little Charlie Brown tree between Nostrand and Kingston Ave. I hear the area just got rezoned so I hoping that change is going to come soon… I think that we should start like they do in the south giving people tickets for droping trash/food in streets… There are alot of things that need to happen in the are we need a DINER bad. I am not a woman but all the hair and nail places should really go… I love 99 cent stores but not five and every block. And please no more CHAIN STORES!
4:35 I agree with you 200%
Is Bed-Stuy A Good Investment?
http://renovatingonthecheap.blogspot.com/2008/01/is-bed-stuy-good-investment.html
Whenever people talk about the social ills, crime rate, etc. in Bed-Stuy, I feel compelled to point out that BS is a geographically HUGE neighborhood. You could fit several other brownstone neighborhoods within its confines. This is why you hear BS residents clarify that they’re in Stuyvesant Heights, South Stuy or the newly coined “Westbed”. The “problem area” in the North part of the ‘hood is just as far away from these other micro-neighborhoods as it is from Clinton Hill/Ft. Greene. If you explore the South part you will find (A) great train access for those along Fulton St., (B) gorgeous housing stock, (C) stable, family-oriented, owner-occupied blocks. Not every block is like this, but enough of them are. For heaven’s sake, a Stuy Heights block even won the “Greenest Block in Brooklyn” contest.
But because the whole,vast neighborhood is called “Bed-Stuy,” the safe, beautiful areas in the south get lumped together with the distant areas to the north in terms of public perception, media reports, etc. This is why these blocks have remained affordable.
I always think that newly-minted neighborhood names are a bit cheesy, but in this case I think the neighborhood might benefit from a bit of re-branding, just so people know what part of Bed-Stuy you’re talking about. And as the oldtimers will tell you, originally this area was called “Bedford” and “Stuyvesant Heights,” and the term “Bed-Stuy” was coined as a dismissive term back when the neighborhoods first fell on hard times.
Personally I’m not too concerned with the minor fluctuations of property values in BS because we intend to stay here for 10-20 years. As for safety, if the long-term residents and homeowners could keep their beautiful blocks together during the crack epidemic of the 80’s, they can certainly handle a recession or two.
Thanks 2:57;
But this house is not in Brownsville, East York or Bushwick. It is in the 79th precinct of Bed Stuy. A precinct that covers a geographic and population size equivalent to Fort Greene and Clinton Hill combined. The 79th had a decrease in its murder and rape rate but an increase in robbery and felony assault (like I said before there are issues). The other Bed Stuy precinct, the 81st had a dramatic rise in the murder rate after years of decline and numbers not that different than Fort Greene, but all other crime stats were way down.
Bed Stuy needs work it is not the OK Coral. Its residents and the city recognized that the focus needs to be in further reduction of all crime in order to maintain the momentum the neighborhood has seen in the past 10 years.
It’s a nice house on a decent block for not too much money. Hopefully someone who can add to the community by just being a good neighbor buys it.
who cares where you live
All I know is that I cashed out of Park Slope a few years ago because I started to hate living there. Yeah, it was a great neighborhood. In 1994. Now I’m in Bed Stuy. Honestly, a few more restaurants and amenities would be nice, but if it stays the way it is, I’m fine with that. I have to wait 10 years for my property value to go up? So what? Love it there. Plan on staying. Until it gets like Park Slope. Then it’s time to move on.
I would buy Putnam if it was 675-650K
I don’t personally associate living in a predominently black (as a white person) and poverty-stricken neighborhood with more of a city vibe.
So are you saying that you associate poverty stricken with black people? Because where I live in Bed Stuy, poor little white me is surrounded by a lot of black people who make a lot more money than I do!