Sterling Place

anonymous · January 2007

Hi everybody. I am also looking now on an appartment on this block (Sterling, Bet. Franklin & Bedford Ave), Did it got any better lately or not?

bklynbonnie · January 2007

I live there and don't agree with the characterization that it's dangerous.

anonymous · February 2007

Subject: Available Apartments or Housing on Sterling Place!?

Please let me know if they're are any available apartments in 960 Sterling Place Building. Also, are there any houses for sale and what is the co-op price for the apartment in the building of 960?

anonymous · February 2007

Subject: get this guy out

i no some guy name dougie he is crip and he live on sterling please take him to jail please he kill to much people

alafairnadia · February 2007

Subject: Re: get this guy out

togangs565 wrote: i no some guy name dougie he is crip and he live on sterling please take him to jail please he kill to much people

have you called the cops on this dude? if he's killing people, he's not really a fantastic person to have around, no?

bojolais · February 2007

I don't think the post from togang565 was real.

anonymous · February 2007

LBoogie,

LBoogie,

Regarding 960 Sterling Place they do have some apartments for sale. Go to www.maxxrealty.com for more information

anonymous · February 2007

King without a crown wrote: Pioneers will continue to move into Crown Heights for many reasons.However, there is a price to pay for your considerabley less rent then other blossoming communities in Brooklyn.

Amen! And that price is a 1st class education in urban neighborhoods....particularly police community relations. The cops are scared of the inhabitants; and b/c they're largely from Suffolk county, they can't tell the difference between the priests and the pushers. Their mandate is to reduce crime stats - they drag dead bodies into other precincts' territories in order to avoid workload so if the choice is convincing you to move or actually protecting you, what do you think they'll do? It used to be much easier for them when they could let the natives kill each other. And now you gentrifiers move in requiring real police protection & shit.

anonymous · February 2007

King without a crown wrote: Pioneers will continue to move into Crown Heights for many reasons.However, there is a price to pay for your considerabley less rent then other blossoming communities in Brooklyn.

Why was it that they thought the rent was cheaper to begin with anyway? I'm not suggesting that anyone tolerate crime, but you can't move in to a lower socio-economic neighborhood and be "shocked" about the crime and other unpleasantries...just try your best to improve it. The crime was always there - and was maybe even worse - you just never cared about it before deciding to live here. Further, the reality of the situation is that you're displacing people - regardless of your intent. What you consider to be cheap rent is about 50% higher than the rent the residents here are used to paying. Couple that with the fact that most of you are bringing the Manhattan style of not greeting your neighbors, etc., what'd you expect?...a welcoming party?

But remember one thing....no matter how bad it ever gets for a gentrifier...it will never..and I repeat, "never!" be as bad for you guys as it was for black folks in the past trying to live in non-Black communities. Most of the incidents that will affect you will be economic in nature. So, you catch a little flak, but on the bright side...you take over some of Brooklyn's best housing stock. In no time, you guys will be citing all of the improvements you caused to the neighborhood and using that as a basis to say it is yours....Afrikaaner-style.

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