Will Bed Stuy’s beloved Smurf Village become a cut-and-paste condo complex?
The Brooklyn neighborhood has been gentrified at an alarmingly shocking pace; multi-decades-old Black businesses and Black-owned or traditionally Black folk-rented homes are being replaced by a new population–some call them transplants.
So, the news that the famed Smurf Village on the important Fulton Street (aka Harriet Ross Tubman Blvd) and Utica Avenue axis is about to be torn down for developers to build yet another condo complex is sparking a palpable reaction amongst established residents and original locals…