Spencer Place B&B: Un-Gentrified Brooklyn
Unless you’ve been a hermit for the past couple decades, you’re probably aware that the cost of living in Manhattan has been sharply rising. In fact, the average price for a modest apartment is now well over $2000 per month. So where do all the working stiffs live…..cubicle dwellers, police officers, teachers? They’ve long since migrated out to the other boroughs and now the prices there are sky high! New frontiers like Newark, Jersey City, and Yonkers await. Gentrification is the catchword describing the effects of this continual exodus and many neighborhoods in Brooklyn haven’t escaped it. But not so fast in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Get off at the Franklin St. C line station, walk down Fulton Street a half block with Crown Fried Chicken & Pizza on your left and take a left onto Spencer Place. To your right at # 15 is Spencer Place Bed & Breakfast, a recently renovated 1870’s brownstone, offering three guest rooms sporting original historic detail. 10 foot high scrolled ceilings, ornate wooden floors, and generous pre-energy saving windows let the sunlight stream in. The bathroom is shared and owners Nancye Good and Paul DiMartino leave out an organic continental breakfast of coffee, juice, cereal, muffins, and fresh fruit. Here you don’t feel as though you’re a pampered guest as much a having your own pad. The blocks around here are unvarnished and gritty. But don’t worry, the culture is authentic and your wallet will thank you. Cheap ethnic eats and funky local music joints abound including Bistro Lafayette, Sistas’ Place and Bush Baby Café.
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