Open House Picks

Enough with the provincial comments – ParkSlope vs. BedStuy vs Bayridge vs. ClintonHill- already.
Any comments on the open houses? Or too glued to computer screen all weekend?

I agree with several posts. no 1, bay ridge enthusiast — it makes no sense to bash bs just because your neighborhood isn’t getting as much love its really not going to drive up the property value. ‘my friend lived in bedstuy and go his car broken into’ so what? my friend lived in bay ridge and got beat up by a gang of Italians every neighborhood has its negatives. FG used to be a sess pool of crime and look at it now. I tend to find areas like Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst homogoneous, I sincerely think that some people feel like these areas lack character as the homes are not old and beautiful with tons of details like in bedstuy.

as far as the comment ‘how do I get white people out of my neighborhood’ and the response of ‘how would you feel if that was said about black people’ even though this person was probably trying to be funny I think they touched on something very interesting. the truth is, it seems as though that’s exactly what people think. you say ‘what if people said run all the black people out of bk heights and park slope’ and to that I say THEY HAVE! that’s why these areas seem to be so popular I mean c’mon lets stop trying to be pc and call a spade a spade, its not until white people start moving in in droves and consider the neighborhood trendy, throw up a whole foods or something nifty that a neighborhood starts getting any love. yea, there are still black people in this area but the number is neglible, not to mention ignored. just like someone pointed out, there are white people, interracial couples and asian people in bedstuy but because it’s largely black that is ignored. this is the case with ps, bk heights, ch, fg etc etc … no one gives a damn about that neighborhood until white people move in and stamp it cool because I guess when white people move in the neighborhood is now safe and people’s cars don’t get broken into right? FG was one of the worse neighborhoods in bk, with fg projects right there but when the white people came and said hey these brownstones are nice! this is nice, and cheap, especially compared to manhattan it wasn’t a problem that the projects were so close now most of the black people who are left there are those who bought or moved in that area for the most part when the neighborhood was nothing. or don’t mind selling to the geniuses who are willing to pay 2 mil for their house and they can move to bs. now the same thing is happening in bs and people have the nerve to talk about yet they’ll be the same people wanting to kick jamal and tyrone out for lindsey and matt when the neighborhood turns around. get over yourselves.

We are fg migrants and have also come to love this neighborhood. Just joined the Y on Macon and can not wait until the new building project is done. We have been here for almost 3yrs and as my daughter loves that Bed-Stuy is a neighborhood with history and beautiful buildings and was proud to say including her new home in a school project when we first arrived. The majority of her classmates live in Bklyn Heights & Cobble Hill. “An Architectual Guide to Brooklyn” sits on our coffee table and often we look through it just in awe of the historical aspects of the housing in Bed-Stuy. I say yes, come restore, rebuild and rejuvinate the pride and splendor that Bed-Stuy once had!

To one of you anonymouses…
I was driving around Bay Ridge last week with a friend who’s looking to buy, and the housing stock is just not the beautiful old structures in Bed Stuy and PS and CH et al. That’s one enormous difference.