Closing Bell: Corcoran Shifts Some Borders
Today Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, who has been in the news for trying to curtail the practice of real estate agents making up names for neighborhoods, sent out a press release commending the Corcoran Group for “changing their advertising practices by moving the eastern boundary of the Prospect Heights community back to its proper border, and…
Today Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, who has been in the news for trying to curtail the practice of real estate agents making up names for neighborhoods, sent out a press release commending the Corcoran Group for “changing their advertising practices by moving the eastern boundary of the Prospect Heights community back to its proper border, and correcting several listings that had improperly marketed Crown Heights properties as located in Prospect Heights.” According to the release, Jeffries sent a letter to Corcoran asking the brokerage to recognize the traditional boundaries of Prospect and Crown Heights in its ads so as not to “inflate housing prices in the Crown Heights community to the detriment of both working families who reside in the neighborhood and the prospective residents who are being deceived.” (While he’s at it, the assemblyman may want to look into Corcoran’s borders for Clinton Hill, which evidently stretches to Bedford Avenue.) Jeffries still plans to intro legislation requiring the city to set up an official process for renaming neighborhoods, so “Pro-Cro” is safe for the moment.
>http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Hakeem-Jeffries/story/39861/
Agreed, that feels real.
This neighborhood name/border nonsense, however…
Apparently Fort Greene overlaps with Clinton Hill, according to Corcoran.
http://www.corcoran.com/neighborhoods/index.aspx?page=BrooklynDescription&N=FortGreene
And no, this is not important at all.
This is such an embarrassing sideshow.
Perhaps I am reading too much into this, but I see this as another minor skirmish in the war to freeze New York in time.
The city has always been one of shifting and changing neighborhoods, but now there is an expectation that the way things have evolved over the last 30 years ago are somehow sacred, and must be preserved in that state for all time.
This IS a good cause. Real estate companies are closing in on insurance companies are far as being satan. For instance, 21st St. in Brooklyn, is Greenwood Heights, NOT Park Slope. Now if we can just get him to get the police to cut out the bullshit arrests for small amounts of marijuana we’ll be all set.
Clinton Hill starts on east side of vanderbilt and goes to Classon.
“HakJef needs to find a real cause to latch onto.”
This is pretty “real” >
http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Hakeem-Jeffries/story/39861/
where does Clinton Hill officially end? I thought it was Washington Ave, but then people consider stuff on Franklin in CH, so I don’t know anymore.
Oh, so Corcoran is actually pretending honest practices? The world has come to an end…