Dumbo: A Bridge Too Far?
Newsflash: Brooklyn’s not for everyone. This weekend The Times reports on a woman who lived in Manhattan for 17 years (mostly in Alphabet City) after moving to NYC from Australia; last year, however, she decided to uproot to Vinegar Hill after visiting a friend who had bought a condo in Dumbo. And now? “I feel…
Newsflash: Brooklyn’s not for everyone. This weekend The Times reports on a woman who lived in Manhattan for 17 years (mostly in Alphabet City) after moving to NYC from Australia; last year, however, she decided to uproot to Vinegar Hill after visiting a friend who had bought a condo in Dumbo. And now? “I feel trapped here in a way, she says, and apparently still spends a great deal of her time in Manhattan, despite the fact that she rents a studio for work only a few blocks from her Front Street home. She’s also been slow to explore nearby neighborhoods like the Heights and Dumbo, and says she occasionally feels unsafe in her new ‘hood. More than anything, the article is a curio for the Times’s real estate section, which so rarely expends ink on neighborhood stories that aren’t seen through a rose-colored lens. The question is, now that the real estate market is cooling, are we going to see more and more of these Brooklyn backlash stories?
She Left Her Heart in Manhattan [NY Times]
Photo by DumboNYC.
2:24 – as far as i know ingersoll is staying put yet i count 4 lux developments currently going up right next to them. please explain.
the woman is stupid along with other new dumbo residents who complain. they obviously didn’t do their research before they moved. just go back to manhattan where you belong.
i think 1:15 is right. there is a rise in gangs in williamsburg.
So she buys in Vinegar Hill after falling in love with DUMBO, but now that she’s so close, she doesn’t even hang out in DUMBO, Fort Greene, or any other cool Brooklyn neighborhood? Please send this psychic back to Manhattan…
So she buys in Vinegar Hill after falling in love with DUMBO, but now that she’s so close, she doesn’t even hang out in DUMBO, Fort Greene, or any other cool Brooklyn neighborhood? Please send this psychic back to Manhattan…
2.19 – you mean they’re moving the farragut houses
silly article – why would this woman agree to participating in this story?
maybe i’m a “weirdo” but i like vinegar hill b/c it’s convenient to all the amenities of dumbo, bk heights and downtown bk w/o being in the middle of everything. anyway, vinegar hill is going to be dumbo 20 years from now in the way that much of sunset park and windsor terrace is now park slope. and that’s when i’ll sell.
Williamsburg certainly has projects. Ever heard of the Williamsburg Houses? I think you mean “Bedford doesn’t have projects.”
Vinegar Hill is great if you’re a weirdo and don’t want services. I, for example, love it and would move there if a downturn made it affordable again. But it’s a stupid place to live if you like seeing people or doing things… it’s a couple dozen houses in the middle of nothing. That’s the point.
12:26 wasn’t talking exclusively about gangs in Williamsburg. So don’t use those to defend his claim all of Brooklyn is seeing an uptick in crime.
L.A. has a terrible latin gang problem, so do some other cities. It’s not just about Brooklyn, it’s a larger issue. To deal with that issue you can’t just talk about Williamsburg. Like one suggestion, any time any of these a**holes are busted even for a traffic ticket deport them back to their home countries. Something that’s not being done. For whatever reason.
“The uptick in crime is happening now, boyo, and has been going on since the end of last year.”
Wow – talk about the “sky is falling”…..
The year is less than 90 days old – and last year crime was at an all time low – so I truly fail to see how you can claim that crime is on the uptick, with such little data yet available – check back in September and then maybe you might have something to say.