Bed-Stuy neighborhood

The place to be is off of Lewis Ave and Stuyvesant Ave, between Halsey and Gates. Beautiful homes, protected by landmarking.

Personally I think of Upper West Siders as more naturally Crown Heights residents. You should give streets like Sterling and Park Place off of New York Ave and Kingston a second look. Those are gorgeous blocks and irreplaceable homes that are perfect for families.

Hi Sirius,

I was looking to buy an investment property at Bed-Stuy and decided against it. The area is not as safe as I would want it to be. I finally bought a brownstone in Hamilton Heights (the landmarked Sugar Hill area), which is a few subway stops further up from the UWS. Beautiful housing with quality tenants (mostly Columbia and CUNY professionals).

Good luck!

Western Bedstuy borderline Clinton Hill and Stuyvesant Heights are very safe. I own a townhouse on Clinton Hill border, and based on daily crime reports sent to my email (spotcrime.com)the the worse crime that had happened in the last 3 years I've lived here are someone stealing credit card info and auto theft. No shooting or robbery had happened.

I live in thew south-western side. It is quiet, safe, and very beautiful. The A express train takes you to Fulton Station in Manhattan in 12 minutes. I love the neighborhood.

Mimi, how did you ultimately pick that area?
Do you consider yourself walking distance to Prospect Park?

mimi, answer the troll.

It depends how long you like to walk. The train at Franklin takes you there in 5 min. I picked this area because is quiet, the architecture is unbelievable in this part of Bed-Stuy and I found a great house very close to the express A station. So you are a troll, I see. Good luck with the wonderful life that all trolls get to live!

When you pass over the bridge I am underneath, I will still be taller than you. Both in height, as well as in morals - given how you treated the SRO residents so you could occupy your wonderful architecture all to yourself.

Idiot, keep your facts straight. That was in Harlem, where she didn't buy. And your morals suck, you are a cruel, pedantic troll.

Only the lazy or stubborn would view pedantry as cruel.

How long have you been lurking petrfitz? Mimi's behavior must excite you, but instead of Harlem she chose Brooklyn- you support that?

No, you are both pedantic AND cruel. Horrible combination. No excitement here, just disgust at your delight at your appointing yourself the morality police of SE when it's clear your own moral code is so shallow.

Funny, how anger and frustration gets funneled in the most curious settings. I was looking for a vacant SRO with certificate of no harassment, because this is what I was able to buy. How did I harass tenants? I understand that trolls need the instant gratification that they get insulting and attacking, in order to fill the big empty hole inside of their souls. I don't get angry or defensive in these cases, I just feel pity and compassion. When u pass the bridge, nobody will see you, because you have only hate inside you and nobody will give a shit.

No, mimi, you're wrong ... I'd stop to shit on this particular troll if I passed over its bridge.

And bee tee dubs, soul? I don't think so!

Police released two photos Tuesday of a suspect who allegedly threw a block of ice at a woman, and struck her in the head, outside a Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn subway station.
Around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, the suspect was on the street when he allegedly hit the 28-year-old woman with a block of ice while she was walking up the stairs to the Utica Avenue A and C train station, police said.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/05/12/bedford-stuyvesant-ice-throwing/

A 24-year-old woman was shot and injured yesterday while attempting to pick her daughter up from a day care center in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Authorities say she was caught in the crossfire during an attempted robbery at a bodega across the street.

http://gothamist.com/2015/05/13/mom_shot_in_bed-stuy_while_picking.php

Nice. If I'm a troll, I suppose I've done well to highlight Mimi's immorality that she can't even find a way to deny or apologize for, I've exposed yet another one of Alan's odd fetishes, and I've gotten petrfitz to rejoin streeteasy with his special brand of hypocritical hysteria.

Aren't you special (in your own mind)? Nobody cares about you any more, you've lost all effectiveness, you combine pedantry with judgment and narrow-mindedness, and that's not even addressing you're total lack of regard for the truth and willingness to misrepresent what people say. Go back under your bridge. I hope you get pissed on by those who pass by, you deserve it.

Can you be both pedantic and lack regard for the truth?
We might as well seek an answer to that question since today's SAT word ( used 3 times in a row by petrfitz) is "pedantic". Very big word for a man whose seems to enjoy water sports (I guess that is better than Alan).

Well, isn't this such a special discussion between the Se trolls "alanhart " and the notreadyforanything ( except starting fights on se ) who now posts her usual angry, frustrated comments on se, by a new name . "Mimi" is a member of that gang of trolls, just another follower beholden to them. Brownhurst is being called "a troll" by the worst garbage trolls who are still trying to control se discussions.

Vankaman - Truth - just please go away

Oh Bburg is the former aboutready. Well that's sure eye opening given the immoral behavior she supports by Mimi.

More pedantry and misrepresentation. Thanks for proving my point.

Stupid me - I thought Bburg was petrfitz and then I thought that Bburg knew what pedantry meant. I was wrong.

And how many identities has the troll now known as brownhurst enjoyed? Let's see: huntersburg, gothamsboro, (I may have misspelled either or both since they are not worth looking up) and a variety of others that all amount to, usually, irrelevant drivel. If you believe Mimi to represent immorality, I'd hate to see what your life looks like. Either you have achieved an impossible level of moral perfection or you are a flagrant hypocrite. Mimi approached her house hunt with respect for the people and culture of the communities she was considering, that's more than I can say for most gentrifiers.

Can't be a flagrant anything if you are unsure.

You're not very clever, are you? And I'm not unsure about that, and I know the definition of pedantry. Nice try. Fail.

Of you are sure, why did you now ask it as a question? You seem unsure. And a bit unstable too. D-

Right. You're very stable, rigid even. F.

Rigid is not much of an SAT word. Did you run out after 'pedantic'?

No.

Actually asshole is a good word for you, and I doubt you'll find it in an SaAt prep book.

Well then I won't check an SaAt prep book.

Of you are sure (your typo, asshole, look above).

Did you have a stroke?

I'm quoting you. Did you have a stroke?

Whatever.

You should call 911.

Use the working hand to dial. Seriously, the faster you call the better.

The other hand.

When the ambulance arrives, can I suggest you ask for a Manhattan ER?

I think something might have hit a nerve. I don't care,

Ethically you think your comments above are appropriate?

You may think you don't care now, but I would still suggest asking the ER doctors to check your nerves if you think that could be a source of the trouble.

Is Bburg ok? Did she go to a Manhattan hospital or one in Bed-Stuy/Bburg?

Asshole. The child broke her wrist and wound up at Elmhurst, the nearest ER, and I wasn't with her. It made Bellevue seem like a palace. Thankfully we have an orthopedist at the Hospital for Special Surgery who got her in that week. It's sad how massively disparate the quality of care can be.

your child's wrist breaking is because of your stroke?

Any family members willing to give an update to the SE community?

Bburg is ok: http://streeteasy.com/talk/discussion/39646-primates-of-park-avenue
no word though on the child's wrist.

Another guy who got rid of tenants in an SRO. NY Times reports that he refused to pay his mortgage, lives on his daddy's dime, moved to Connecticut, sails full time and wants to leave the U.S. for New Zealand: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/nyregion/untested-developer-picked-wrong-time-wrong-place-and-wrong-neighbors.html

updates?

I see today that Bburg has been on vacation since we last year from her.

If I were you I'd take a permanent vacation.

and if I were you, I'd take a permanent vacation too!

Any update?

Must be another vacation week.

Much to many of our chagrin, you chased her away. Maybe she would come back if you apologized and pledged to let her post in peace.

No, I think it is just yet another vacation. She's gone bon voyage before and then returned, I think there was even a dedicated thread, "Farewell".

Friday will be the fifth anniversary of that thread starting. Still makes fun reading, even with the OP removed.

Happy Anniversary!

As I read that old "farewell" thread, I can't help but look at NYRENewbie and NYCDreamer and wonder how familiar those posters are. Much to my chagrin of course.

I just like saying chagrin. Makes me feel European.

I also like saying acluistic, even if spell check rejects it.

My favorite part of that thread is when Wbottom comes on at the very end and demands the deletion of the thread, otherwise big bottom man will cancel his $10 per month subscription, which isn't even available anymore or part of the SE business model.

@fieldschester - I like how you are imagining me behind every username, much in the same way CoCo used to see you behind every username. I had to look up acluistic. I don't think that is a word.

Except Columbia County was right.

Whatever happened to c0c0?

NYCN, I was just taking you at your word that you had met alanhart, but of course since SE gatherings had disappeared before Jan 2012, you had to be under a different name, no? And then look at the posting style, general topics of interest

I met Alanhart in either Aug or Sept of 2012 (and btw, he first introduced himself as Huntersburg!). That aside, I have not looked at your latest suspects, but let me guess: they are fairly polite people seeking to be educated about New York real estate? Do they have dogs? Are they interested in a cute affordable apartment in one of the most popular neighborhoods in the world? From the midwest? It is hard to hide when you are as unique as I (and in case it is not clear, I am being facetious; I am about as generic a SE user as one could be; accordingly, I suspect that the bulk of SE Discussion readers resemble me in some fashion).

Now I'm completely thrown off the scent.

Any update?

NYCNovice, have you had a chance to look?

@fc - No, boring. BTW, I am disappointed you have not apologized for doubting my numbers since you have been verifiably proven wrong. Honest brokers have no problem admitting their mistakes.

Not a broker here. I'm not trying to bring you together with anyone or anything.

When we get the full picture I can do my apologies if they are really warranted, you know, for being doubtful

My word, it just occurred to me that Stevejhx might be one of your aliases. Joke is on me, and nobody is surprised. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I am an idiot, one half step up from an idiot at best.

Try to turn this around on me with something preposterous?

>NYCNOVICE - really dont think Stevejhx is fieldschester. Those of us who have been on SE for a while have learned to recognize all (or most) of his aliases.

@ph41 - Yes, I know. This recent exchange just reminded me of Stevejhx, with whom I once made the grave mistake of attempting to have a rationale conversation. I note that you and other seasoned posters have the good sense to simply ignore and reiterate that I am an idiot, but that is not news to anyone either. :-)

ph41, whatever happened to that guy from upstate that you had an affinity for?

@ph41 and anyone else who has been on here a long time (would particularly love to hear from truthskr10, whose opinions I respect as much as those as NWT) - All the hfscomm comments were deleted by the time I started paying real attention to SE discussions; as someone who was on SE during that period, is it your opinion that FC/HB/GB/GD was behind those usernames? I am genuinely curious.
@FC - were you behind those usernames? During the time I have been paying attention (sporadically over the past 2.5 years), you seem pretty upfront about owning the FC/HB/GD/GB handles, and a few others appear only minimally veiled, if at all, so I am thinking that if you were behind the hfscomm personae you would own it, but then again, it is pretty clear that I am quite naive.

I really miss Phil Hartman. He used to play the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer on SNL, perfecting the fake naive trial lawyer. I'm just a caveman, I'm not familiar with your modern Internet.

Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer was an effective trial lawyer; I was a terrible trial lawyer. That does not mean I am a terrible lawyer; as a litigator, I was effective pre-trial and with judges and arbitrators, but really terrible in front of a jury. I don't litigate at the trial court level anymore, and haven't on a regular basis in quite some time, dusting off my trial court level skills only once in the past 15 years to assist a friend of a friend in need with an issue that was also of some general interest to me. Lord knows I am going to regret this, but precisely which part of the "full picture" are you not seeing? You have all the material facts.

I didn't say you were doing your unfrozen caveman lawyer well, just that your MO was too obvious, which would make it the opposite of a strong performance. As you humbly point out.

The real story behind that performance, the actual lawyer off of which it was based was from C0lumbia C0unty, New York. He wasn't actually frozen and unfrozen, but the cold winters, relative isolation (even the deer were long gone), and lack of a sufficient tax base to support education made him seem like he was an unfrozen caveman.

I am so confused that I cannot tell whether you are giving me too much credit or not enough. Either way, my only point was that I did not have you pegged as someone who cannot admit defeat or even so much as a mistake . Again, I know you don't like to share, but are you by any chance a Donald Trump supporter?

Was I defeated? You seem to want capitulation without earning it. Maybe that is why you are good pre-trial but not in the courtroom?
I am a Carly Fiorina supporter.

Self-awareness is not the many-named troll's forte. Hypocrisy, willful misrepresentation and an unwarranted sense of moral superiority and thus the right to judge and condemn are. I was told by SE that the comm creature had multitudes of handles (so busy, so industrious), not all including the beloved four letters. Yes, most believe go/hb/fc is one and the same. There are many reasons not to be so forthcoming, SE (prior to the sale to the current owners of course) actually asked me to report the troll to the police.

Thanks Bburg. Good to know. The troll's obsession with you is unsettling.

Bburg, I forgot to wish you happy anniversary. Someone pointed out that it was 5 years since you said farewell.

By the way, I agree with your first two sentences: Reading that farewell thread shows that most everyone else does too about you. I mean aboutready, not you of course.

Nycnovice, you aren't obsessed with anything, are you? I mean if we searched SE for any ongoing topic that you like to promote into the real world, we wouldn't find anything of substance, would we?

PS to the troll - You are not the judge of whether you are wrong here, but even if you were, your theory, were it accurate, would not be the reason I am not good in front of a jury if I am to accept the evaluation of respected peers who have witnessed me in court.

Multiple reasons?

Please enlighten me. Of my 920 posts, how many are about a single topic? I don't think I am obsessed with anything in particular, but I keep an open mind and try to internalize feedback.

Yes, too many reasons to count.

We should include your other names too, shouldn't we, when determining the level of ovsessive interest, don't you agree?

Go on.

Is that a yes or a no?

Yes, I am fine with your including all posts by mcr, foolish renter and nycnovice. I do not agree to your including any other names you imagine to be mine, though I suppose if you include those of your vivid imagination, it would just dilute your point even further.

I don't think that is the way math works. If including mcr, foolishrenter - single purpose accounts to cover the real life topic over which you are obsessed - then the evidenced level of obsessiveness would increase. Do you agree with that statement or disagree?

I disagree but am keeping an open mind and look forward to your presentation of the evidence.

You get kind of cold when you don't get your way.

That is not consistent with feedback I have received in the past, but you are entitled to your opinion and it is always interesting to hear others' perceptions. Go on.

I am aware I am entitled to my opinion. I'm glad you are interested to hear my opinion too. But since I've already stated my opinion, about what topic would you like me to go on?