Local Stop - Bedford-Stuyvesant - A Neighborhood Evolves, History Intact - NYTimes.com

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Once considered the badlands, Bedford-Stuyvesant is slowly gentrifying and now features refurbished brownstones, vintage clothing stores and bakeries that produce a bumper crop of red velvet cakes and other treats. This central Brooklyn neighborhood is also a bastion of the African diaspora, a place where, as Black History Month winds down, a visitor can get a King Curtis “Sweet Soul” album or a dish of navy bean pie.
Local Stop - Bedford-Stuyvesant - A Neighborhood Evolves, History Intact - NYTimes.com

Ooohh, look, it's my neighborhood! There ARE a lot of record shops down around there, and even more in Crown Heights.

I'm not really a red velvet cake fan, though, I think I'm too much of a New Englander.