Wow, this is my old Brooklyn neighborhood where I was raised! Brings back so many memories. Awesome video! I'm glad the area is safer and that It's doing better these days. It's so cultural.

Bedstuy do or die? Everybody hates Chris?

This video looks more like real estate pitch

Live from Bedford-Stuyvesant the livest one representing BK to the fullest

Bedford-Stuyvesant has always been a beautiful place. Just walking up and down Bedford Avenue you notice great changes.

I used to live in the middle of BedStuy and really loved to walk down different streets and see how every one is different

That is one of the biggest lies you can possibly say. Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn New York at one point was one of the most dangerous places you could have been in even in the day time. From the late seventies to the late eighties if you could have financially afford to live someone else, Then Bedford-Stuyvesant would have been your absolute last choice to be, trust me. I live at 33 halsey street between Bedford Ave and Nostrand Ave Brooklyn New York. Then I went Up-state to Spring Valley NY. THANK GOD what a relief. So dangerous back then. And this was way before the crack epidemic. The buildings was always beautiful architecturally wise. that had nothing to do with the people who was living there who were mostly my peoples,black people. The architect of the buildings had to do with the European settlers that came in the 1800s that built it. They built it in a style in which they wish used to back from their own homeland. As a proud black person we should always give ourselves credit for what we do, However we should try to take credit for something we didn't do. The beautification of those neighborhoods when they were 1st built was not because of us and that's just the truth.

I'm from Bedford Stuyvesant born and raised and lived there for 20 plus years.

eh, this video wouldn't have been made if it weren't gentrified.

I wonder how long it's going to take for the area to be completely rezoned and the families living in the 21 housing projects in the area to be pushed out? It's very sad, but that's what happens when an area is discovered by the real estate sharks and the yuppies with their wherewithal start contacting their government officials to change things. For instance, I remember watching a program on TV where they interviewed a black man from another city who had a junk/scrap business that he had inherited from his father. It had been in the family for decades and this is how the family made their livelihood. Then the neighborhood started becoming yuppiefied and the new well-to-do, snooty neighbors had the place legally rezoned and he had to close his business, because some of the yuppies found it unsightly.

It looks beautiful! I love the Brownstones. It is not what I expected at all.

Reducing crime, beautifying the neighborhood, opening more local businesses, and improving quality of life is one good thing but the gentrification by real estate sharks pushing out long term residents and hipsters with their big money and total disregard for community involvement is another terrible thing

Great video. Very different ftom the 60s and 70s. I was raised on Stuyvesant ave and Hart st. Went to PS81, JHS 57 and then Boys high. I miss Brooklyn. Priceless .

Wow, it has been a long time since I stop by. I used to think travel from Manhattan to Bed Stuy was just way too long especially coming back to Manhattan due to lack of express trains. So my friends all left there and moved to Manhattan. But it sure looks great in this vid. It came a looong way to get to where it is now. So glad to see the improvements.

one word: gentrification....

I’m from Bedford Stuyvesant born and raised I love Brooklyn

I finally learned how to pronounce Stuyvesant the right way.

And this is where I lived in including with my mom, my dad, and my sisters and that is Bed-Stuy! : )

Awesome thanks for sharing

Can we do an update on this please. The people moving into bedstuy now have no clue of the history and importance this neighborhood carries. Thank you!

I left my heart ❤️ in Brooklyn so many fond memories would love to buy a brownstone but read they r expensive to maintain

RIP Biggie Smalls

This was really cool to see

People love these neighborhoods but forget who gives these neighborhoods that culture? Minorities. Blacks and Hispanics gave it that vibe that history. Now its becoming more commercialized.

I went to Boys H.S. in the 70's Thank you for the video

my home always!!!❤

So sad and ironic that the guy chronicling the vibrancy of Bed-Stuy is part of what is killing it

Speaking of air space.. that gap makes a lot of air space @ 1:15 LOL

This, and Bushwick, form my old neighborhood. The video here is a lovely and elegant look at multiculturality within a post post modern context. One can smell the new vegan and gluten free cuisines of the new restaurants, artfully yet minimally decorated with slight cross cultural accents. How delightful, indeed! Somehow, the smell of cheap fried food, the noisy L and M, the smell of the cigarettes, and the teeming of life had more heart than this

Smh from a African American community to whatever it is now

No mention of "Do The Right Thing" ?

I love and lived in bedstuy for years I watched the change every one I knew has sold there homes I still live on the same block since 92 I love my area but not don't know the people who live around here now it's sad

a guy from bed stuy wearing toronto blue jays everything lol

the average Brownstone rent for one bedroom is now roughly 1600.00 per month, not including gas and electric! How is that compared to other cities in the USA??

It gives off a cool funky vibe! This area was kinda made famous by the early 80’s rappers and Bboys!😃👍✨💖✨

What is the title and artist that raps the tune on 2:55. It starts with a count down.

Quincy St my home 😢

Song at 2:29?

I used to live in Malcolm X and Vernon in 1994 it was bad taking the J train in Kosciusko station but like they say you got to keep going no matter what.

Has anyone here ever watched the show Everybody Hates Chris?, because that whole show is based off of here. And that show and the video I just watched contradicts each other.

My friends who grew up with me in this Bedford -Stayvensant area say it has improved a lot. Back then in the 1980`s this area had one of the highest crime rates and heroine abusers. I remember going out with my friends to the movie and we did not know if we were going to come back home or not, not even the police wanted to patrol this area , this is how dangerous this place was. LOL.

I think I like it. I may Relocate🤔

alot of folks from bed stuy are moving to brownsville now

Y’all should see Bedstuy now.😑 The gentrification is REAL. It’s gotten very expensive here; they’re trying to run us out.🙎🏽‍♀️ If you want the magic that was Bedstuy back; cease with trying to put the people that make Bedstuy wonderful out. Shalum.

0:11 that is where gummo was recorded(:

Bed stuy is like bronzeville in chicago

Come together hold the line don't sell if you own.

JAY Z FROM BEDSTUY AND Biggie, not from bedstuy. He's from Clinton Hill...busta is from flatbush/ Long Island ..... fabulous from bedstuy maino from bedstuy

Yo I heard Superman 💪🏻don’t got to Bed Sty!! 🤣 or is that Brownsville or both? 🤔

Same thing that's happening to Besonhurst is happening to Bed-stuy

I used to live off Ralph and bed stuy

Is it a two way street?

"Like it could be Portland or something"

I lived right at 454 man, memories

An open invitation to all gentrifiers...

Do or die bed sty lived here briefly in late 90 s felt unsafe so moved to sheepshead bay

I grew up in crown heights lived there all my life...then in 1992 I moved to Bedford Stuyvesant and I've watched the entire neighborhood change I lived on Bainbridge Street and Malcolm x Blvd I've seen every type of construction going on in early 2000 and I knew something good and bad was happening to the area people came with a lot of money and brought all of the properties and by 2001 started building right away... and now you can't even live there it's just too expensive...crown heights the same thing too expensive... downtown Brooklyn anything by the bridge a lot of tall buildings and the rental property way too expensive... but I still love Brooklyn and still my home

i lived in do or die, at that time. Lafayette Gardens projects at 411 apt 10g, YES I'M BOBBY. I had draw paintings of my life in my bedroom on the wall, paint i had brought from pratt institute. i wish i just had taken it pictures before i left for the army, i wish that who lives there now would just look out the window and take a picture of that clock. the dime tower. and send me a subway map.

Bed-Stuy born and raised!

This is probably where the scenes for the Movie "The Intern" were shot.

bedford Stuyvesant the livest one

GENTRIFICATION!!!---

Jay Z's hood

they left out all the good hang out spots

i live on suyvesant between putnam and jefferson cool right is saw it in the video of where i live

You can’t stop progress.

0:38 Why don’t they show Radio Raheem’s “Hate” fist?

Agree with everything the up and coming guy said except for looking up to former drug dealers, being from Bed Stuy, way better mentors, RIP Mickens. B&G all the way.

I recently visited Biggie's childhood home and it was all hipsters. I was so confused

Did they used to film some parts of MTV The Grind in the neighborhood?.

Real rich that the guy at the end saying he hopes bed stuy keeps its flavor is a realtor. Profiting off of gentrification while bemoaning it to the cameras

Gentrification always means the neighborhood is getting better

I love Bed Stuy🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

Everybody hates Chris?

101 MacDonough St

Brooklyn Breukelen. Stuyvesant Dutch. Most people don't know Dutch orgin.

Thats my hood

Yikes. The crime wave from this place eventually took down my beloved Brownsville !!

Those houses are there more than a century old, the original owners are long gone?

that is a tall brotha about 7ft.

These rap artists had a chance to buy these buildings and rent to our own ppl but too busy clubbing and stuntin

Home of that boy biggie

Bill Cosby lives there =D

The person for whom the caption said was a resident said, you still see remnants of the old Brooklyn, "on Fulton Avenue..." Sir, just stop! Fulton Ave is in the Bronx sir! Fulton Street, is in Brooklyn. No one in Brooklyn mispeaks and calls Fulton Street, Fulton Ave. So whomever shot and whomever edited this isn't from Brooklyn either, that's OK, you didn't know, obviously. That was fraudulent af, just that part but that was enuf, agredious and downright disrespectful!

They left out Fulton Street.

Nice, lovingly and artfully made video... with some obviously delusional statements from people on the screen. The fact about concentration of several public housing ghettos is followed by "some of the greatest people come out of public housing"... WHAT??? I don't live there, but I've been a Yellow Cab driver since 1993, so I kind of work there, at least couple of times a week. Undeniably, BIG IMPROVEMENT in 20-25 years. Obviously, all 100% due to gentrification and the ethnic/racial demographic changes. "Old residents are concerned about newcomers because not sure how invested the newcomers will be ... the old residents were always invested" WHAT WHAT???? WHO WAS ALWAYS INVESTED? Crime situation is getting better, and tremendous improvement in 20-25 years, but still some of the most dangerous area in whole NYC - the same NYT which posted this video has an interactive "crime map" project, just go there and see for yourself. Whatever improvement in safety is due to great NYPD work and gentrification, since whites aren't restricted by that ghetto "no snitching" mentality as much as some others (wink wink). Higher crime levels compared to elsewhere in NYC will, of course, continue, because of public housing ghettos, which by definition concentrate poverty. But if you're white I will stop my cab to pick you up on Broadway even at night, and that is a huge difference from 20-25 years ago, when for me at least it was a "no-go" area. Can anyone remember the 50-something year old crack whores regularly walking around Myrtle and Bway at night? ))) Jesus Christ, that was a sight! Not anymore, thank god! ))

A few decades ago this place was one of the most dangerous 'hoods in America.

@ 0:51 When I moved there in early 2000s, I tried to get community to plant trees on my street...it was a No....15 Years Later...BedStuy got Gentrified...And they finally planted the Trees on my street....Now it’s too expensive to live there. Gentrification.

This video isnt accurate I didnt notice any crack smoke or crack sales

Bed-Stuy is not really the hood anymore. You either gotta be rich or poor to live there - no middle class anymore. In 2000, avg home price was $200K; in 2023 avg is $1.5M. Except for the projects and a few blocks, Bed-Stuy is completely gentrified. The demographics have changed substantially as well…In 2000, it was 90% Black, 8% Hispanic & 2% White and Asian. In 2023, it’s 45% Black, 32% White, 20% Hispanic and 3% Asian.

Looks like Chicago

Anyone else watch everybody hates Chris

New York State sure does not like New Jersey state getting a part of Manhattan. so it seems form the air. berlin ring sprawl it is not.

Bed stuy so doido vai

Hipsters turning hoods into homes.

Betistai so doido vai

O bairro do suco de fruta

Everybody hates Chris

What about gun shooting?

Not a single one of them mentioned all the bums, rats, and roaches.