[shadeaud]

Bed-Sty!! Now that’s a wonderful neighborhood to raise a family. (NOT)

[dfwgator]

Bed-Sty!! Now that’s a wonderful neighborhood to raise a family. (NOT)

I've been stranded in the combat zone
I walked through Bedford Stuy alone
Even rode my motorcycle in the rain
And you told me not to drive
But I made it home alive
So you said that only proves that I'm insane

Billy Joel

[Boogieman]

“I’ve been stranded in the combat zone
I walked through Bedford Stuy alone...”

[proxy_user]

It has recently been heavily gentrified, and is now full of $1 million houses.

[COBOL2Java]

Bed-Sty!! Now that’s a wonderful neighborhood to raise a family. (NOT)

I was born not too far from Bed-Sty (Ridgewood, early 1950s). When I was a kid it wasn't such a bad place. Bushwick too - that was where Jackie Gleason grew up.

Everything changed in the late 60s with the riots. In fact, my neighborhood petitioned the city to change their postal location from Brooklyn to Queens.

I still tell people I was born in Brooklyn though. At least, the Brooklyn of the 50s.