Pushing the Envelope: The Creeping Bed Stuy Border
Our post on the new building going up on Classon and Fulton ignited some debate about where Clinton Hill ends and Bed Stuy begins. We always think of the border being Classon, if for no other reason than that is where the most discernible break is aesthetically. We’re in good company: Both Kenneth Jackson’s “The…
Our post on the new building going up on Classon and Fulton ignited some debate about where Clinton Hill ends and Bed Stuy begins. We always think of the border being Classon, if for no other reason than that is where the most discernible break is aesthetically. We’re in good company: Both Kenneth Jackson’s “The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn” and Ellen Freudeneim’s “Brooklyn!” draw the line at Classon as well. It’s certainly no surprise that those marketing properties would stretch the boundaries to Franklin or Bedford but Nostrand? At some point it gets silly. Granted Bed Stuy is too large an area to be placed under one rubrick, but constantly pushing the definitional boundaries of Clinton Hill ain’t gonna solve that.
New Build on Classon [Brownstoner]
To Kevin:
That has kind of happened. The area east of Throop Avenue has reverted back to Stuyvesant Heights and the west as Clinton Hill East.
Maybe Bed Stuy should revert back to the original area names of Bedford and Stuyvesant Heights with what ever were the original borders (or roughly so)
The official border of Bedford-Stuyvesant is Flushing Avenue on the north, Classon Avenue on the west, Atlantic Avenue on the south, Kingston Avenue on the west, Eastern Parkway, Pitkin Aveue and East New York Avenue on the south, Van Sinderen Avenue on the east, and Broadway on the northeast.