#RealEstateIsAHumanStory

Our neighborhoods are a skin that breathes, provides, absorbs, protects and is also vulnerable. Choosing where we live, is choosing what and how we want to spend our days and our nights, grow and become as individuals, as a couple or family and as participant-contributors to our surrounding community.

Every neighborhood is a unique assemblage of persons, places, and things, a multitude of lives and stories, disappointments and dreams.

Interviews

Charlotta, the owner of Chez Oskar, a French restaurant on Malcom X, tells us her journey in New York and in the restaurant industry, as a versatile artist, a social activist, and a savvy business woman… Fabulous!

Kristin, the flamboyant and delightful owner of A True Love of Wines & Spirits, on Marcus Garvey Blvd, tells us how she became a wine expert and her passion for it. She also shares what BedStuy is for her… Precious!

Jean-Christophe Henry, the owner of the fabulous creperie, Madame Poupon, on Nostrand Ave, tells us his difficulty during the pandemic and how his customers saved his business.

Hector, the owner of Home Land Food, a deli on Stuyvesant Ave, tells us his trajectory as an entrepreneur coming from Saudi Arabia, a high schooler in BedStuy, and how he became a partner in a group that owns delis, wholesale candies, car dealers etc.

The Project

Real estate is the business of property, but it’s also an endless font of incredible collection of stories: reasons for leaving, reasons for arriving, travels and journeys, especially, as we find, then settle our homes, get oriented, get to know, get involved...

Through my work, as a real estate broker in New York City, and as a neighbor in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, I have met many people and heard many interesting stories, especially during the 2020 pandemic. I wanted to share this collection of stories, so that we know a little more about each other.

I am driven by my own wish to be more acquainted with the histories, struggles and dreams of those around me, and to share those stories and life-lessons with others.

Share your story!

Businesses – resilient shops and services, bodegas, restaurants, cafes, bars, hair salons and barber shops... which are so crucial to our neighborhood life, I would like to get to know YOU! If you would like to share your journey settling in BedStuy and your commercial adventure, please contact me.