Atlantic's Successful Antics
The Post displays some out-in-front reporting this morning with a story on the gentrification of Atlantic Avenue. Evidently, Atlantic has transformed from a strip defined mostly by parking lots a few decades ago to its current incarnation, notable for substantial residential and retail development. Most interesting are details about how home values have risen. “Back…
The Post displays some out-in-front reporting this morning with a story on the gentrification of Atlantic Avenue. Evidently, Atlantic has transformed from a strip defined mostly by parking lots a few decades ago to its current incarnation, notable for substantial residential and retail development. Most interesting are details about how home values have risen. “Back in 2000, a brownstone [in Boerum Hill] went for about $1.5 million,” says Nancy McKiernan of Nancy McKiernan Realty. The story says a brownstone off Atlantic today goes for roughly $2.5 million, and condos fetch in the $600- to $700-per-square-foot range. The article also has a roll call of all the avenue’s recent and planned development, including the Smith and Renaissance Realty’s in-progress luxury rental at 252 Atlantic. And, of course, Atlantic has seen a great deal of retail advances in the past few years, including its many newish boutique shops, the just-opened Urban Outfitters and the planned Trader Joe’s. The big elephant in the room, natch, is how plans to reopen the House of Detention are going to affect Atlantic’s progress. The article’s most hilarious quote is from a recent transplant who says, “The prison presence is barely noticeable at all!” That could change slightly if the city’s plans to reopen the facility with 1,469 inmates by 2012 moves forward.
Atlantic Current [NY Post]
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I am literally bursting with juvenile excitement – I have seen “the What.†I opened up a Bloomberg video story about Neighborhood Assistance Corp. protestors invading Bear Stearns lobby yesterday and there was a pudgy, middle-aged white dude with a “someday this war is going to end†sign held over his head. He looks like the comic store owner guy from Simpsons but far less interesting. I can’t post video from Bloomberg but someone please, please validate – it’s under JPM CN and story was posted at 12:08 am this morning. I apologize to everyone but I am posting this everywhere on Brownstoner because the disconnect between the guy and his posting style is just hysterical and highlights just what a terribly conflicted medium blogs can be and anyone that puts too much stock in what they read on these sites needs about as much professional help as the “What†does. I am now just so excited to see if he will call me an “a$#%-hat†so I can literally picture it coming out of his mouth!
10:14, that is awesome. I can’t wait to see the picture!
um, 10:18 Sahadi’s is a food store and one of the best in the world!!!! Check it out its located between Court and Clinton.
I have to disagree with 10:12 — it has plenty of eateries (at least from Smith to Nevins). Any more and it would feel like the mall that Smith Street is on its way to becoming. What it needs are more food stores (a la Fish Tales or Los Paisanos).
I am literally bursting with juvenile excitement – I have seen “the What.†I opened up a Bloomberg video story about Neighborhood Assistance Corp. protestors invading Bear Stearns lobby yesterday and there was a pudgy, middle-aged white dude with a “someday this war is going to end†sign held over his head. He looks like the comic store owner guy from Simpsons but far less interesting. I can’t post video from Bloomberg but someone please, please validate – it’s under JPM CN and story was posted at 12:08 am this morning. I apologize to everyone but I am posting this everywhere on Brownstoner because the disconnect between the guy and his posting style is just hysterical and highlights just what a terribly conflicted medium blogs can be and anyone that puts too much stock in what they read on these sites needs about as much professional help as the “What†does. I am now just so excited to see if he will call me an “a$#%-hat†so I can literally picture it coming out of his mouth!
Love Atlantic Avenue…lot of character…needs more restaurants though..
Every time I hear BoCoCa (the correct styling, by the way), I think…NoProPaSo!
As someone who has lived in Boerum Hill for many years, please don’t use the term BOCOCA!
Thanks
And sadly, the 2.5 mark was crossed on those new townhousees on State at Smith (hard to believe for 16 foot wide houses, but according to other posters on this site they were successfully marketd to Manhattanites looking for modern). And I think there have been a few sales close to $2.5 on State and on Dean as well (not including the old Nell Campbell house that Ledger and Williams purchased).
9:56
What is this BOCOCA you speak of?