My Brooklyn Report

Since 2011, we’ve seen Bed Stuy Blog, Clinton Hill Blog and BushwickBK stop publishing content completely about neighborhoods they covered. Can they return and deliver like they use to? (Read our 3 point plan for their comeback).

Crown Heights, Brooklyn is home to hundreds of landmark brownstone row houses. Here’s what Linda thought of one for sale on Dean Street.

Bed Stuy Blog, the imprint in the cloud that made the neighborhood I was born and raised in a popular destination, is signing off.

Since March 2007, The Changeling embarked on telling a neighborhood’s story through words and pictures, with a little help from the blogosphere.

Prior to its launch, the only thing reported consistently by print and broadcast media outlets were negative depictions of Bedford Stuyvesant and her residents.

Instead of offering the same fare heard and said in the news, she decided to invite you on her journey in search of … Bed Stuy, where she discovered places to eat, things to do and people to see.

What she and others accomplished in each post would change the perception readers had of an entire neighborhood.

And the neighborhood is better for it.

One of my favorite blogs on the Internet is Brownstoner. Started back on October 2004, it’s become a vital resource for all who venture to become homeowners in Brooklyn. One of its most popular series is The House of the Day.   The point of the series is to solicit readers’ responses to the listing and [...]

On Saturday, June 19th 2010, I attended a rough cut screening of a new documentary by Abeni Garrett and Laurel K. Brown at the Five Myles Gallery. I’ve known Laurel since the 2009 elections.  We both supported Mark Winston Griffith for City Council to represent the voters of Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights in the [...]

Few people get the chance to talk about the place they grew up. I’m fortunate to have that opportunity provided by the good people at Bed-Stuy Blog, Bedford Stuyvesant’s window to the world for visitors to get a glimpse of the place mentioned in Jay Z’s lyrics, Spike Lee’s movies and Charles Hobson’s television broadcasts from [...]

In May 1970, the movie world witnessed Hal Ashby’s directorial debut of his adaptation of Kristen Hunter’s novel titled, The Landlord. A story depicting the experiences of a young suburbanite from Long Island, New York who bought a house in a Brooklyn ghetto. The hero is a young white male who is influenced by the [...]

Brooklyn is home to some of New York City’s oldest neighborhoods, rich in history and turn of the century row house architecture.  Some of the borough’s affluent families of the late 19th and early 20th centuries built magnificent townhouses that featured treatments and details meant to rival their neighbors. Today’s home buyers are eager to [...]

Since 1970, this property has changed hands 15 times and had Lis Pendens (law suits) filed with property liens to foreclose for non payment of property taxes 4 times.

It experienced a Lis Pendens filing for mortgage default only once. The city has defended its claim to unpaid property taxes more times than it engaged in enforcement action through the Department of Buildings for unsafe building conditions, which only occurred 2 times (2001 & 2006). So why does it still look this way?

On October 14th 2005, Lucylla Baynes purchased 2415 Dean Street in Ocean Hill Brooklyn for $505,000. She purchased the property from Anita Sussman, who purchased the home on June 20th 2005 for $340,000 from Richard Cabello (neither Anita Sussman nor Richard Cabello ever lived at the property).