Community Corner

The Verdict is in: Classon is the Border!

Residents weigh in on "fuzzy" border between Bed-Stuy and Clinton Hill.

It looks like Classon Avenue is the border between Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill.

According to our poll in the story “,” of 371 respondents, a whopping 258 (69 percent) identified the border as Classon Avenue In second place with 61 votes (16 percent, Bedford Avenue was named as Bed-Stuy’s border; another 35 voters (9 percent) believed Bed-Stuy’s border was at Franklin Avenue; and finally, a meager 17 (4 percent), identified Bed-Stuy’s border as beginning at Nostrand Avenue.

So to all of the dozens of new businesses that recently have opened up along the eastern side of Classon Avenue, and to all of talented Pratt students residing on Taaffe Place, and to all of the new condo owners along Myrtle and Kent, you live in The Stuy, baby!

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