Two Bedford-Stuyvesant residents have launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for a community grocery store in their neighborhood.
The duo, Dylan Ricards and Sheila Akbar, are but two of the many tattooed, bespectacled and nubby-sweatered Gen Y-ers to migrate to the once-impoverished neighborhood that famously gave rise to rappers Jay-Z and Read More
Strolling down Bedford Avenue, you’re greeted by a solid wall of new six-story brick buildings.
The apartments are spacious and cheap by New York standards. For half a million dollars, you can buy a three-bedroom condo in a new elevator building. The tan brick buildings won’t win any design awards, with their looming, protruding window cages and diagonally cascading balconies built solely for constructing booths during Sukkot. But the apartments are big enough to raise a kid or seven.
Cross Broadway north into the trendier section of Williamsburg, though, and half a million will barely buy you a studio. The new construction appears formidable, but it pales in comparison with the torrent of demand streaming into the neighborhood. Read More
The saga of Broken Angel House, the hand-crafted Clinton Hill mansion of bizarre angles and strange art, has taken a somewhat odd, though not altogether unexpected twist.
Christopher Wood, the son of artists, house-crafters and erstwhile owners Arthur and Cynthia Wood, has launched a kickstarter campaign to transform the house into a museum, thus staving off the last stages of foreclosure proceedings, Curbed reports. Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
Late last week, a new 48-unit affordable housing development opened at 926 Madison Street in Bed-Stuy, Brownstoner reports—which is good news for residents in a once-rough neighborhood where the locals’ biggest fear is now likely rising rents.
Rents in the Brooklyn neighborhood went up 6.5 percent between April and May of this year; the neighborhood has seen steadily rising rents since the beginning of the year. Read More
“No, Arianna can’t make it,” said the birthday boy. “But,” he continued, sipping his whiskey, “she sent me a birthday email today.” Arianna Huffington, it seems, doesn’t much make it out to Bed-Stuy on a Sunday night.
The birthday boy, a writer for the Huffington Post, had gathered his friends on the eve of Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
Lloyd Blankfein came back to Brooklyn yesterday, to the nexus of one of its poorest neighborhoods. Though even today, poor in Brooklyn is relative, as the borough’s gentrification continues inexorably, slowed–but only just so–by the recession.
The occasion was the groundbreaking of the Bradford, named for a tree native to the borough. Located on a Read More
