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City Living: Bedford-Stuy

"I've been stranded in the combat zone/I walked through Bedford-Stuy alone." If Billy Joel's words were prescient in his 1980 song "You May Be Right," they're downright amusing now. Because even though pockets of this vast central Brooklyn neighborhood are afflicted by the crime and poverty that ravaged it in the '80s and '90s, it also has something else that's in huge demand: historic brownstones....

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