Bed-Stuy is Brit's Bag, Baby
Bedford Stuyvesant’s ascendency has just reached a new level: Thirty-year-old British designer Sarah Morgan has named an entire line of handbags after her new nabe. The Bed-Stuy collection includes such pieces as the Bedford (shown), the Putnam and the Madison. She says that the designs reflect the diversity of Bed-Stuy itself where her friends are…
Bedford Stuyvesant’s ascendency has just reached a new level: Thirty-year-old British designer Sarah Morgan has named an entire line of handbags after her new nabe. The Bed-Stuy collection includes such pieces as the Bedford (shown), the Putnam and the Madison. She says that the designs reflect the diversity of Bed-Stuy itself where her friends are African-American, West Indian, Italian and Colombian. “The neighborhood is still predominantly African-American,” she said, “but we all feel accepted.”
Bed-Stuy is Brit’s Bag, Baby! [NY Daily News]
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The part of this thread that made me laugh the most was about what would happen if “my children” found a severed head in the backyard…isn’t this over-obsession with protecting “our children” gotten out of hand these days?
Wow!!! What a heated board! Gentrification, intergration, black, white, blue, purple…Who gives a flying #@#@!
Can we all just get along?! And, the comment about the “if the head comes with the bag”…That was cold…Funny, though:)
I think she bought the bags from 27th St. in the Flatiron District or from Chinatown…IT’S A KNOCKOFF!! I saw one just like it, when I bought my Gucci..I mean my “Pucci”
Good post TW. Totally agree with your points.
Perhaps discussion of race and gentrification needs to begin with the acknowledgement of all parties that (i) blacks have to put up with a lot of crap on a daily basis that whites are largely oblivious too, especially (and perhaps most insidiously) inadvertent racism from people who think they are progressive but aren’t self aware or honest enough to perceive their own motivations and (ii) blacks can be racist, unwelcoming and otherwise hostile too.
One of the things that strikes me in New York is how little blacks and whites interact and understand one another. While the increasing diversity of certain neighborhoods will never please everyone, surely people of different races living alongside one another, sharing a desire to improve their communities and developing mutual respect is a good thing, to be encouraged? Hate comes from fear and fear comes from ignorance.
OK, I’ll get off my soapbox now.
I dont think that CH and even FG are predominantly white (not that it should matter) … seems that has become the perception because it is so expensive at this point, which is crazy and sort of offensive.
As for Bensonhurst, this is a little off subject, but I live there and over the past couple of years have noticed the number of black people go from zero (at least that I can see) to a few here and there. Maybe since the local people cannot afford their own neighborhoods anymore they have had to move further out to less desirable hoods.
I always thought that Clinton Hill was revived by Black Urban Professionals. When i was renting 12 years ago, my land lord was a black doctor who worked for the U.N. I think when any neighborhood suddenly gets a new influx of wealthy people, it’s the people who have lived in the area and have not gained from the gentrification, who feel left behind and angry. How come we have to wait all these years for a clean, decent, grocery store, for instance. As for the handbags, I have traveled many places in the world and everyone always knows Brooklyn. Why not cash in on the name recognition. Also, it’s the racism that we don’t even know we are perpetuating that is the most harmful.
This site has so much negativity and finger-pointing from commenters. Are “Brownstoners” really so juvenile? Seriously the comments on here are so childish. I’m done.
Please get a life people. The young lady was only trying to point out that nobody bothers her in that nabe. Lets face it Bedstuy gets such a bad rap. So for all of u who think its so unsafe because yr white! You just got told what its like!Heads up to the person who wrote that alot of people don’t have a clue. Take it from people who live there now. THEY SAID THEY NEVER HAD A PROBLEM. Helloooo NEW York City on a whole is alot safer than 10-20yrs ago.
Uh….I guess this is off-topic but, Cool Fannie Packs!!!