Comments on: Vexed Yuppifiers

By: anon

anon — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:05:52 +0000

Honestly until now (and I obviously came here via the NY Times story) it hadn’t occurred to me that the residents of the Mynt were sold a bill of goods. I kind of thought you were all just insane. I mean, you’re living on Murder Avenue, what do you expect?

I’m feeling a little more sympathetic though. It is total horse duck to promise childcare and a gym if you don’t have these things to offer, and it is a bald faced lie to talk like the neighborhood is turning into the West Village with cafes popping up all over the place.

And I can see how I might pay a little extra for a gym.

Now I’m waiting to see how fast these developments fall apart. There are more, on Franklin and Lex, and dotted around the Stuy. Places where people are paying a lot to live in a neighborhood with marginally maintained sidewalks.

I’m starting to wonder whether the rents won’t be dropping dramatically as people (like you) realize that the neighborhood just isn’t there yet. Not at $1700 rents on Myrtle Avenue.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:21:32 +0000

My Lord you sweet Darlin, coming all the way from Texas to pay wayyyy to much rent for mothing. I came here eight years ago from Dallas and missed all the same things you do (except the country music and big trucks) but, I lived in a ok place that was wayyyyy to much. i owed in a gentrified area in Dallas and saw the same thing in Bed Stuy. I told my crappy landlord I was going to show him how to treat a home and tenant, we purchased and gut renovated a brownstone and put all the “normal” things in the apartments..washer/dryer, garbage disposal, dishwasher, roof deck..etc. We didn’t try to charge people to much but, we are not a development that was ment to be sold as condos and had to be converted to rentals.
Welcome to the hard life of the NYC you are not a yuppifier here you are an outsider so, like me you will learn how to say F YOU(in a nice way) and do as we Texans do and make your own damn way!!! when you get out of the lease move something modest do what you like with the extra money:) Good luck