Brooklyn Becomes a College Town
With a crush of students already flocking to Downtown colleges like Brooklyn Law, a new dorm on tap from Brooklyn College in Flatbush, and a surge in International applications to attend Pratt, our borough is more popular than ever with the university set, says the Daily News. Around 55,000 students now attend institutions of higher…
With a crush of students already flocking to Downtown colleges like Brooklyn Law, a new dorm on tap from Brooklyn College in Flatbush, and a surge in International applications to attend Pratt, our borough is more popular than ever with the university set, says the Daily News. Around 55,000 students now attend institutions of higher learning in Kings, and that number is primed to rise. Applications to attend colleges in Brooklyn have risen almost across the board over the past five years, and a Pratt official says there was a 60 percent increase in international student applications to attend the school this year. Students interviewed for the article say Brooklyn is an appealing option. “I came here because I like New York, but don’t like Manhattan,” says a Pratt sophomore from Columbus, Ohio. “Manhattan is really crazy. There are so many insane people there. It’s a lot cheaper here, too, and I really wanted a school with a campus.” Pratt VP for enrollment Judith Aaron says the borough’s escalating real estate values and overall better rep have lured more students, or at least stopped them from worrying about personal safety. “I never get a question any more about safety – one in the last two or three years,” says Aaron. “Just as real estate has skyrocketed in Brooklyn, so has the borough’s reputation for prospective college students.” Next up: An increase in Brooklyn’s head shop-per-capita ratio?
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paving the way for more and more gentrification
The surge in international students applying to Pratt is more than likely due to the fact that students are not required to speak English, attend classes or complete any assignments to get their degrees there. I see it every day.
Dear Gabby (author of post):
Brooklyn Law is NOT a college. It is a private law school only. It is not affiliated with Brooklyn college in any manner.
Please do something about your complete failure to perform proper research before publishing your usual postings, or just send a resume to TMZ.
Thanks.
I guess these silver-spoon, spoiled, and so, so boring students will continue to overrun, gentrify and continue to ruin historic neighborhoods like Harlem, Greenwich Village and Downtown Brooklyn. That’s just lovely.
You people will fight about anything.
Yes, Brooklyn is becoming hot. With college students, with extremely affluent couples and families, with celebrities and with immigrants.
It is the 4th largest city in the u.s., a short subway ride away from what many consider the capital of the free world.
You’d have to be an idiot not to see the incredible change that Brooklyn has seen. Brooklyn has been able to capture the attention of international people, which only add to the melting pot, making it that much more incredible.
They just renamed a neighborhood in Buenos Aires (which is literally a HOTBED for art right now) Palermo Brooklyn.
There is no Palermo Manhattan.
Get a clue, folks.
Brooklyn was named a top 10 destination on Lonely Planet last year…the BIBLE for European travelers.
No, I don’t think Brooklyn is a “sleepy college town”. If you read my post you’d see I was talking about the general characteristics of a college town and how Brooklyn fits that more than Manhattan does.
11:33 are you saying students are drawn to Brooklyn’s schools for their “sleepy college town” feel? Pratt better build their walls a little higher than. As for the students choosing Brooklyn… If anything the 60% increase in international applications has more to do with how Europeans/Asians view Brooklyn more favorably in general. It’s a major tourist destination. Hell the fact that he dollar sucks makes Pratt a lot more affordable.
Considering Pratt and Brooklyn Law have been around for over a century, no, I don’t think Brooklyn is becoming a college town. If one follows the validity of mathematics, one could say that … it’s been as much of a college town now as it was … a hundred years ago, when those colleges were already around!
When people write articles like this you can really smell the cornfields on their breath.
The Pratt student, from Ohio in the story perfers living in Brooklyn over Manhattan. I’m just pointing out that Brooklyn is literally/statistically more “crazy”. And yes, I am a mental patient!