Property Shark: Feeling Blue in Bedford Stuyvesant
Curbed (which has really been upping its Brooklyn-related posts, hasn’t it?) ran this map yesterday prepared by the folks at Property Shark. The big take-away? “It’s striking to see that Bed-Stuy has a much larger and denser collection of pre-1900 buildings than anywhere else in NYC,” notes the Shark.”Even larger than Park Slope, Harlem, or…
Curbed (which has really been upping its Brooklyn-related posts, hasn’t it?) ran this map yesterday prepared by the folks at Property Shark. The big take-away? “It’s striking to see that Bed-Stuy has a much larger and denser collection of pre-1900 buildings than anywhere else in NYC,” notes the Shark.”Even larger than Park Slope, Harlem, or the West Village.” The post goes on to lament how little of the historic nabe is landmarked. Sad indeed, especially given some of the ugly-ass crap that’s been erected there in recent years. Let’s hope the upscale condo developments are finished with a modicum of taste.
Shark Bites: Bed Stuy Is Old [Curbed]
Actually, funkjester, Clinton Hill is probably less than a mile away from Tompkins — and had its own, very intense crack problem back in the day, as did just about every “gentrified” nabe in Brooklyn. Bed Stuy has been getting better (just like just about everywhere) and will continue to do so. I agree that middle portion is a hard nut to crack, but it’s going to happen.
And the decline in the crack culture is a big part of all this — basically with crack there is no alternative — you clean up or you die — there’s no such thing as anyone who’s been tranquilly using crack for years, unlike even heroin. And selling it is no longer as profitable as it once was, making the whole enterprise much less interesting.
That has to be the scariest suggestion I’ve ever seen — aside from the fact that RiverWalk was built along an actual river, not a toxic waste-laden artifical canal dug out of swampland.
If I wanted to live in San Antonio I’d live there. Ditto Jersey City, Long Island, Westchester, Ohio, or anyplace else you can name.
forget all the talk of “preservation” in Bed-Stuy…please!
Do something about the nasty crack problem over there that plagues block after block for miles, and then maybe it will be time to start talking about political saavy and “saving the ‘hood.”
I lived on Tompkins Ave. between Quincy and Gates for a year, and I couldn’t get out of there fast enough to Clinton Hill, so infested with crack was the nabe for blocks around. And under the knowing watch of the precinct a block and a half away, no less. For shame!
Now, maybe a mile away, a real neighborhood worth saving and living in, where sunrise brings children going to school and parents headed for work, not addled rockheads headed for home after another night in an endless string of addiction on the streets.
Bed-Stuy…please.
There are many area including BedStuy that should be landmarked. Parts of Park Slope, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights are not landmarked.
it’s pretty pathetic that just a tiny, tiny section of bed stuy is landmarked. the quick-build garbage that’s being put up in vacant lots all over bed stuy not only looks ugly, but won’t last.
bed stuy is a huge neighborhood. i don’t know statistics, but i think it’s bigger than park slope and the w. village, possibly not harlem. that would account for the large concentration of 19th c. brownstones.
Jersey City is a dump. If that is your model, then you can keep it.
My old house in Bklyn built pre-1900 is also listed as post-1900. And a good bit of PS is also older than listed as folks here say. But why is it apparently accurate in Bed-Stuy? Maybe the date was taken from alterations approved by the DOB which somehow resulted in an inaccurate opiginal construction date? And the Bed-Stuy alterations were done illegally so the original date held? Just wondering.
our place in clinton hill is older than indicated on map as well. we have even found objects in floor and wall dated 1870’s and we’re listed as 1900-1924. there are other houses on the map that i know are 1850 and are listed later too.
Yeah, a lot of this data is not accurate. DOB lists my house as being built in 1900 though we know it was built in 1888. DOB does this for a lot of houses and that is clearly reflected in this map, at least, in my neighborhood, Park Slope. It should look a lot darker blue here.