The British Are Coming, the British Are Coming!

You just gotta love those Google Alerts. It's like a trusty labrador retriever: you tell her, "go fetch me all the news on Bed-Stuy" and she comes back on a daily basis with everything, useful or not, that has even a mention of the phrase. Well in our inbox today was this precious gem of an article from across the pond in The Times of London about a UK couple that has found brownstone bliss in Bed-Stuy, and they're proud of it.

Murder, drugs and guns were just some of the terms used by people who tried to warn us against buying a brownstone townhouse in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. But the abundance of exquisite and unspoilt late Victorian architecture, its proximity to Manhattan and the bargain prices on offer in the supposed gangster’s paradise they call Bed-Stuy were enough for my fiancée Alida and I to ignore the nay sayers for long enough to discover that they were quite wrong.

After reading this glowing review of our beloved Bed-Stuy, we can't help but wonder: Is The Times doing a Lenten penance for the smackdown of an article it published on June 25, 2005 in which reporter Dominic Rushe said Bed-Stuy is "a horrible and inconvenient area of Brooklyn with some lovely buildings and a nasty crack habit." ?

Link: Big Apple's Core Appeal - The Times of London
Previously: On Wall Street: Dominic Rushe: Big Apple Homes Are Ripe for a Fall - The Times of London via Brownstoner

Comments

[js]

I quite agree about the prices and convenient location. However, there are some very nice pockets of bed stuy and there are some very sketchy pockets. There have been multiple murders, lots of bangers, and heavy dealing in the pocket in which I reside. Do I feel threatened? No. But lets not kid ourselves. There is a reason the bullet proof glass hasn't disappeared in many of the corner stores. West of Franklin is very nice. East of Nostrand? hit or miss. Anybody who makes a blanket statement, negative or positive, about bed stuy clearly doesn't understand the complexities of the neighborhood. If you plan on buying do your homework.