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.
Brownstoner–fix the problem with your website. People are double posting due to your technical issues…
11:00 AM guest –
“…uptick in crime”
Who is your psychic? Because if we are going to see an uptick in crime – we haven’t yet – then Grace, the story’s subject, might need that info in order to make an informed decision about where to buy next.
People say entitled when they mean “self-entitled”. (Entitled meaning basically the opposite of what they are trying to say).
They’ve never opened a dictionary.
“Who the hell moves to a neighborhood without knowing a single thing about it?”
You’d be surprised how many people buy in an area they don’t know just because they read that it was ‘hot’ or a friend of a friend moved there. It’s amazing! People move into my neighborhood and then they act shocked at the lack of amenities or the noise issues or other things that anyone could figure out if they spent a few hours here. It’s sad.
Probably. Brooklyn’s slowly starting to get seedy again because of the uptick in crime, so living in a place comparably expensive to Manhattan, but less convenient and more dangerous probably won’t strike people as too pleasant.
Why buy a 800k condo in Williamsburg just to have 0 transportation options and Crips from Manhattan and Scholes hanging around outside the local bar beating peoples’ heads in?
Like the use of the word ‘hood after saying that she felt unsafe. Hmmmmm is all I’ll say.
I moved to Brooklyn 12 years ago. I’m still not sure I like it.
Like the use of the word ‘hood after saying that she felt unsafe. Hmmmmm is all I’ll say.
10.28 – Why is she entitled to it? What did she do to be entitled?