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.
Ugh. What a moron she is. Who the hell moves to a neighborhood without knowing a single thing about it?
This whiny wench is complaining about her 1000 sq foot condo….soilder on my dear! The agony–poor Angus Young–the pooch Yorkie must be sooo lonely.
Typical NY Times profile of the entitled class.
I wonder if she likes the noise of the subway going over the Bridge, the noise is deafening, I don’t know how anyone pays those prices to live thier but they do, just goes to show you everything will eventually sell.
I wonder if she likes the noise of the subway going over the Bridge, the noise is deafening, I don’t know how anyone pays those prices to live thier but they do, just goes to show you everything will eventually sell.
I have lived in Brooklyn for decades – but frankly Vinegar Hill does suck and if I had a choice I’d pick virtually anywhere in Manhattan over that ‘non’ neighborhood called Vinegar Hill
Vinegar HIll isn’t even a real neighborhood in my book. even the churches have all been torn down there. It has nothing. No wonder she misses Manhattan.
You have to be very young and in it for the short term or for the laughs to move to a place like VH or Red Hook or Bushwick.
get your ass back to manhattan and don’t come back!
“now that the real estate market is cooling”
LOL.Euphemism of the decade.Brownstoner you are priceless.
agreed. vinegar hill is not really representative.