Comments on: Sweet seduction http://antbed.com/2007/1018-sweet-seduction The intersection of Myrtle, Nostrand and me. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:43:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: admin http://antbed.com/2007/1018-sweet-seduction#comment-13 admin Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:00:04 +0000 http://antbed.com/2007/1018-sweet-seduction#comment-13 My intention was to point out that it seems that the MYNT was constructed to facilitate this sort of interaction. I can see that if this is the first post that you have read how you would come to that conclusion, but I am genuinely interested in community involvement. However, before I moved into the area I didn't know what to expect so in a sense it could have been an advantage if Bed-Stuy were much worse than it actually is. Once I moved in I found that this seems more like a disadvantage, thus the discussion here. My intention was to point out that it seems that the MYNT was constructed to facilitate this sort of interaction.

I can see that if this is the first post that you have read how you would come to that conclusion, but I am genuinely interested in community involvement.

However, before I moved into the area I didn’t know what to expect so in a sense it could have been an advantage if Bed-Stuy were much worse than it actually is. Once I moved in I found that this seems more like a disadvantage, thus the discussion here.

]]> By: Streetfaerie http://antbed.com/2007/1018-sweet-seduction#comment-12 Streetfaerie Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:33:02 +0000 http://antbed.com/2007/1018-sweet-seduction#comment-12 Im just finding this blog so I havent read all the posts but are you serious about living in the Stuy and being "independent" of the neighborhood, only venturing to "scurry" to the subway? I think this hits at the nerve of contention long time residents have of newcomers and so called gentrification. If you are going to live in this neighborhood then plan on actually becoming a part of it. How offensive that you want to live in our community but see it as some bombed out place that you happened to find a good deal in. People live and love here, its not some "rough" or uninhabited place that you happened to stumble upon. I hope you are able to come to a place where you see your neighbors as people worth getting to know, and the neighborhood as someplace full of culture and history, and understand that you can either be one of the many who only help to drive up property values and price people out with no concern or one of the few that actually try to make a home here. Im just finding this blog so I havent read all the posts but are you serious about living in the Stuy and being “independent” of the neighborhood, only venturing to “scurry” to the subway? I think this hits at the nerve of contention long time residents have of newcomers and so called gentrification. If you are going to live in this neighborhood then plan on actually becoming a part of it. How offensive that you want to live in our community but see it as some bombed out place that you happened to find a good deal in. People live and love here, its not some “rough” or uninhabited place that you happened to stumble upon. I hope you are able to come to a place where you see your neighbors as people worth getting to know, and the neighborhood as someplace full of culture and history, and understand that you can either be one of the many who only help to drive up property values and price people out with no concern or one of the few that actually try to make a home here.

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