The Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick real-estate market is exploding with million-dollar townhouses and apartments renting for as high as $20,000 a month.
But right around the corner from the ornamental plaster and restored wainscoting has been a fresh wave of shootings and other bloodshed that doesn’t make it into the listings.
There has also been an uptick in burglaries and muggings targeting the gentrifiers who move in.
“All I can say is there should be a sign that reads, ‘Buyer beware,’ ” said a police source who works in the area.
Another police source said, “A lot of the white folks moving into these areas are from out of state.”
“They walk around as if they own the place . . . then they get robbed.”
“The problem is they’re moving into their beautiful home with all these housing projects around them. That’s where the crime comes from.”
Overall, crime citywide has fallen nearly 4 percent this year. But there’s been a 10 percent rise in shootings — which NYPD criminologists blame on gang activity in neighborhoods that include Bed-Stuy and Bushwick.
There has also been a 9.5 percent jump in the number of shooting victims, and an 11.7 percent decline citywide in gun charges, blamed by many on tighter stop-and-frisk policies.
Meanwhile, the Bed-Stuy real-estate listings are crowded with dozens of million-dollar-plus renovated brownstones and brick townhouses.
Even in Bushwick, where aluminum siding and boarded-up windows are at least as common as the refurbished brick, million-dollar row houses being marketed as “investment” properties.
Rents there have spiked 29.76 percent in the past month, with the average one-bedroom rental currently $2,647 a month.
On Sunday, would-be Bed-Stuy buyers browsed no fewer than six open houses for million-dollar-plus homes.
Web designer Paulina Jamet, 29, checked out 500 Quincy St., a two-family townhouse with a garden and fireplace going for $1.3 million.
She said it was a nice street with a lot of mom-and-pop stores, although the price was steep.
“I’ve seen how fast the new neighbors are moving in,” she said. “More people like me are moving in and changing the neighborhood. So that’s comforting.”
She was shocked to hear that on Aug. 20, a 35-year-old man was gunned down on 456 Quincy St. — less than one block west of the townhouse she was checking out.
Or that a 25-year-old man was gunned down on a MacDonough Street stoop, nine blocks away, on July 6.
Other crimes in the neighborhood include the death of Tamecca Haskins, 32, who was shot in the chest at a party on Lefferts Place, near Franklin Avenue.
Haskins died shortly after at Kings County Hospital. A man, 34, was shot six times but survived.
Longtime residents have the same warning as the cops for these intrepid gentrifiers: Beware!
“At night, the freaks come out,” said Reginald McMillan, a 33-year-old musician who has lived on Quincy Street in Bed-Stuy since 1981.
“Thugs are out shooting and stabbing, and it’s pure chaos. It’s been that way for years. Real estate can be a worse hustle than what goes on in the streets here at night.”
Ali Clarke, a real-estate agent trying to show a $1.56 million home on Jefferson Avenue in Bed-Stuy on Sunday, admitted the townhouse with hardwood floors and exposed brick may not be worth all the money.
“I can see why people say the neighborhood changes at night,” she said. “People still have to be really careful. I want to call it a neighborhood in transition.”
Not far from the pricey home, a burglar broke into the front door of a townhouse near Classon Avenue in broad daylight and stole a MacBook and jewelry on Aug. 21, a source said.
In July, a thug fired a gunshot into an apartment door on 257 Quincy St., only a few blocks away from Jefferson Avenue.
A worker at the Quincy Market, the closest store to four Bed-Stuy brownstones currently on the market for between $1 million and $2 million, said crime is terrible.
“I can’t keep track of all the problems here,” he said. “People fight during the daytime, and they shoot each other at night. Something happens almost every day,” he said.
He had sympathy for the area’s gentrifiers.
“I feel bad for them,” he said. “Why pay so much for so much trouble?”