I think we forget, with all of the negative doom and gloom in the media, that many people are still doing well, many people are in jobs that are thriving and, gasp, growing, and many people are doing what they would have been doing had this mess not occured. People are still moving to NYC to follow their dreams, and people will still buy apartments and houses in the neighborhoods they want to buy in. Seems to me that our media’s hyper attention to the minutia of every stock market jiggle, every business decision, and especially every business and personal disaster story, has turned us into a nation of hesitating, reactive, quivering masses of jello. (Continued…)

— by Montrose Morris in Hey, Something Sold!

I’m not saying it’s not bad out there, believe me, I’m experiencing it, as are friends and family. Would that the media, Congress, the SEC and others who are supposed to be watching, had spent as much ink and pixels on preventing what was preventable, instead of wailing that life as we know it is over. It will indeed be interesting to see how that translates to real estate transactions in Brooklyn. I don’t think we are immune, but as we see from the Forum, and from sales, people have bought in this market, and will continue to do so, albeit more slowly.

Just blathering on to basically say, I’m glad this sold, it sold quickly, and let’s keep it going. Good news for buyer, seller, real estate broker, attorneys, movers, handimen and perhaps contractors, decorators, and more.