Market Vertigo in Bed-Stuy
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Excellent part of Brooklyn and an area that is gentrifying very quickly.
Streets are full of beautiful brownstones.
Very accessible from Manhattan - 20 minutes from Times Square (A line) to the Nostrand station.
I've attended a few open houses in the area recently; each had a line up of people at the open house and each sold over asking for cash only deal. People are realizing that this is pretty much one of the last areas in Brooklyn that is beautiful, accessible and still somewhat affordable. So while I am not surprised that the place sold for over asking, I am shocked that it sold for $1.8M. Great for the old timers that are selling the house.
Bedford-Stuyvesant is not for sale!!!
bed stuy is still a crime infested ghetto.
Crime infested ghetto?!? Really?!? I'll give you a crime infested ghetto!!! Lights out baybay - bye bye, suckah!
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Wish it was crime infested ghetto; then prices wouldn't be that high.
In all due respect, yes; at one time it WAS that: Key word here, obviously being "WAS".
Even so, that did not apply to the entire neighborhood during its decades long rough period - much the entire Bronx wasn't burning, when the media would have everyone believing otherwise.
The area may have some rough spots indefinitely; many neighborhoods do. But to collectively label it as an extremely dangerous area is of course ridiculously myopic. Despite the pundits who only wish this were the case - its far from it, much to their chagrin.
As I was humorously alluding to in my post above - no one's forcing you to live there, & if others want to - more power to them.
My Mom grew up in the area; lived on Willoughby Avenue, Park Avenue & was married from her house at 40 Hart Street in 1950.
She told me that as a teenager in the late 30s & early 40s, everyone avoided Dekalb Avenue for reasons essentially no different than today.
This perfectly illustrates my 1st sentence in paragraph 3.
Correction: ...much AS the entire Bronx wasn't burning...