Friday, April 20, 2007

Is suburban Flatbush life over?

My block used to be a nice dead-end residential area in the middle of Flatbush. Neighbors had kids of all ages, pretty just the right amount of people living on the block. Parking was easy--easier at least--to find with nice lawns outside of many houses. Now, I would say in the past 10 years, there have been some major changes. There has been an influx of children running around and overall a much more crowded block from what it was back in the 90's. Parking has been increasingly more difficult to find, with neighbors knocking down their lawns to supply them with a driveway. A few months ago, my old non-Jewish neighbor died, who had a very old small house and a ton of land smack in the middle of the block. Everyone knew that when she died there would be hundreds of people looking to buy that property. Eventually, for the right amount someone actually did.

A developer ended up purchasing this house as a business proposition. He plans to build two three family houses on the lot. That is six new families. If our lack of parking was already pushing its limits, this will definitely take it over the edge. Also, another slew of possibly 30 more kids screaming and running around. Say goodbye to all their bushes and beautiful greenery that is surrounding that house. They want to make my block like 16th Ave., where they pile as many yashivash families as they can into condominiums. This frum businessman comes to my block to profit off of our expense. What does he care, he's not going to live there. I am trying to prevent this from happening, although I'm not having much luck. It looks like suburban Flatbush living is pretty much over.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

the issue of turning single family houses into condos is going on all over the city here in my area of queens the same thing is happening they are taking small one family houses and combining a few of them making large ugly buildings of condos

Jacob Da Jew said...

Can't argue with you on this one. I'm bookin' outta brooklyn real soon.

Malach HaMovies said...

Actually, at the rate that you are posting, this blog is over too.

Anonymous said...

omg i know its so sad! my whole block wanted to kill some contractor who started a huge project right across the street from me. needless to say hes alive and well and building up a storm. the 90's are no more.