Comments on: Not at all obvious http://antbed.com/2008/0727-not-at-all-obvious The intersection of Myrtle, Nostrand and me. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:06:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Zilla http://antbed.com/2008/0727-not-at-all-obvious#comment-2492 Zilla Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:03:46 +0000 http://antbed.com/?p=64#comment-2492 As a Black woman who's lived in Fort Greene, Newark and Bedford-Stuyvesant (in that order) for the past 10 years, I am perplexed, vexed and amused at how people -- most (often) white people accustomed to living in Manhattan -- move to the 'hood and have (often) absurd expectations for their day-to-day living experiences. I, too, hope for adequate and reasonable amentities in my neighborhood of residence, but I sure as heck don't come to Bed-Stuy expecting it to be a carbon copy of the East Village or Williamsburg or Morningside Heights. DO. YOUR. HOMEWORK. FIRST. Everybody doesn't pray and live for Starbucksfication. Please believe. As a Black woman who’s lived in Fort Greene, Newark and Bedford-Stuyvesant (in that order) for the past 10 years, I am perplexed, vexed and amused at how people — most (often) white people accustomed to living in Manhattan — move to the ‘hood and have (often) absurd expectations for their day-to-day living experiences. I, too, hope for adequate and reasonable amentities in my neighborhood of residence, but I sure as heck don’t come to Bed-Stuy expecting it to be a carbon copy of the East Village or Williamsburg or Morningside Heights. DO. YOUR. HOMEWORK. FIRST. Everybody doesn’t pray and live for Starbucksfication. Please believe.

]]> By: dave http://antbed.com/2008/0727-not-at-all-obvious#comment-2398 dave Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:22:02 +0000 http://antbed.com/?p=64#comment-2398 dude: $1,700 is not a good deal in that area. you can consider yourself to be getting ripped off. i have come to find myself in a sort of similar situation. ripped off in park slope. $1,800 for a small one bedroom. nice neighborhood, but pretty much $200 over market rate. neighbors mentioned to me the going rate is about $1,600/$1,650. plus i paid a fee. misery loves company i guess. dude: $1,700 is not a good deal in that area. you can consider yourself to be getting ripped off. i have come to find myself in a sort of similar situation. ripped off in park slope. $1,800 for a small one bedroom. nice neighborhood, but pretty much $200 over market rate. neighbors mentioned to me the going rate is about $1,600/$1,650. plus i paid a fee. misery loves company i guess.

]]> By: Edie Spencer http://antbed.com/2008/0727-not-at-all-obvious#comment-2379 Edie Spencer Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:41:16 +0000 http://antbed.com/?p=64#comment-2379 Hello there! A preface: I grew up in Bed Stuy ( or as the real estate people would say, Stuyvesant Heights) and left, as soon as possible, for college in the West and only come back to visits every few years. It amazes me how much changes and how little does not. The huge strange condo buildings, such as yours, pop up like over grown weeds. Meanwhile, good food markets, sustainable business training and (malignant) neglect of streets and garbage pickup continue as it ever does. There was always issues with 'genetrification' in Bed Stuy.There are a number of Strivers Rows where incoming African Americans who were middle class were deeply resented by African Americans who were poor and did not have choices in life. There were plenty of Afro-Carribean and African American tensions- my family bore plenty of insults about being from Carribean. So do not feel as if your skin color, being in white majority, necessarily means that the attack on you ( and I am deeply sorry and ashamed) is something new, brought by being a new comer. It's not new at all. The thing is- $1700 is a good Manhattan rent, with better amenities and closer to art scenes. What were you looking for when you decided up on this apartment, this neighborhood? Hello there!

A preface: I grew up in Bed Stuy ( or as the real estate people would say, Stuyvesant Heights) and left, as soon as possible, for college in the West and only come back to visits every few years.

It amazes me how much changes and how little does not. The huge strange condo buildings, such as yours, pop up like over grown weeds. Meanwhile, good food markets, sustainable business training and (malignant) neglect of streets and garbage pickup continue as it ever does.

There was always issues with ‘genetrification’ in Bed Stuy.There are a number of Strivers Rows where incoming African Americans who were middle class were deeply resented by African Americans who were poor and did not have choices in life. There were plenty of Afro-Carribean and African American tensions- my family bore plenty of insults about being from Carribean. So do not feel as if your skin color, being in white majority, necessarily means that the attack on you ( and I am deeply sorry and ashamed) is something new, brought by being a new comer. It’s not new at all.

The thing is- $1700 is a good Manhattan rent, with better amenities and closer to art scenes. What were you looking for when you decided up on this apartment, this neighborhood?

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