Corco Sets Up Shop in Williamsburg
The real estate market is alive and well in Williamsburg. Or not. Sandwiched between bagels and hardware, Corcoran’s latest office—their fourth in the borough, first in the Burg—opened yesterday in a L-shaped space that runs through from a storefront at 241 Bedford Avenue to an entrance on North 3rd Street (above). Under the watch of…
The real estate market is alive and well in Williamsburg. Or not. Sandwiched between bagels and hardware, Corcoran’s latest office—their fourth in the borough, first in the Burg—opened yesterday in a L-shaped space that runs through from a storefront at 241 Bedford Avenue to an entrance on North 3rd Street (above). Under the watch of broker Eric McFarland, the office has room for 42 brokers and is currently about 2/3 full. The office launches with a couple of big projects already under its belt, 349 Metropolitan and 100 North 3rd Street. Whether this is a prescient call that will position the Big C to cash in on the thousands of units slated to come online in the area in the next few years or a case of being the last one to board a sinking ship remains to be seen. Either way, it can’t be good news for the likes of Apartments & Lofts. GMAP
why the comment about aptsandlofts.com? do u see what they are doing out there? give them props. thats a serious bubsiness that has been running circles around elliman for 2 years and u think they are worried about corcoran? maundrell is a going to be huge in this business.
Yeah, late to the party, but I agree with a lot of the above posters–I lived in Williamsburg for a while, but got the hell out of there 2 months ago.
It looked exactly like Hoboken as far as the people there were concerned, but it was more expensive, uglier, and transportation even worse. So what was the point? So, I moved. God knows why anyone would want to live there – there are better, cheaper places more convenient to Manhattan.
Suggestion: fewer words. You could go with Nick, 27, with a mini trust fund. Was a thuggy acting/looking manhattan boy growing up, but discovered his softer side and is now a tight jeans pansy ass Williamsburg dweller who posts on local message boards.
In defense of hipsters. My ex and I had our first resolved and calm and peacefully divorced laugh about web sites that bash “hipstersâ€. Maybe you guys could come to your own peaceful place too if I could capture the humor somehow. But to be honest I am like totally drunk and tired right now (hey… does that raise or lower my hip status?)
Thing is … my ex and I are both 30-somethings… vaguely professional (ahhumm… I am so endlessly more professional… but anyway I did decide to let that go)… And we like anyone … and as is so fashionable… well… we make lots of sarcastic hipster jokes… little digs at “those†hipsters… but of course… and the irony… the funny part is that of course he and I qualify as hipsters at least probably according to maybe 70% of the viewer ship here I would approximate…. And of course this is the funny thing.
X and I were on some totally obnoxiously obscure and self important indie music web site and there they were… the predictably… franticly hatful posts about the contemptible “hipsterâ€.
And as we read through the various hateful posts about how “their†skinny jeans are destroying music….well we laughed… because after all… who the fuck is on this web site other then “those†people that we would probably qualify as raging hipsters.
All these blogs… I mean I would bet my left pinky that most of “you†people… well your probably sort of hip and according to at least a lot of people… you are the hippsters causing such grief for others…with whatever hip things you do… your funny hair… your wrinkles t shirts… just ruining the neighborhood!
I love how illogical it is… First the “hipsters†are responsible for INCREASING the property values… Now… they are also responsible for DECREASING property value and forcing people to move to increasingly more authentically hip neighborhoods elsewhere in Brooklyn.
Does anyone else find this … I don’t know… funny?
It’s really some high school-ish type competition for authenticity. Hipsters are involved in some kind of online- self love- self hate battle… where we all compete to be more hip (OK- to be more hip … you must do the hip thing first and be sooo over it by the time someone else like it). While simultaneously bashing hipsters… essentially ‘graduating†from hipness into oober ‘hipness’. The next level of hipness if you will… so fucking hip that you transcend hip… you did hip… you done it too and now you are soo above being hip.
Anyway- I have been trying to perfect an actual hipster character… a cyber character that could go on all the blogs and defend the hipster. So… it’s really long winded but… maybe you have some idea… what would his name be? Would he be an artist or a musician? Would he be trust fund or just unemployed? Should I go with a renter character or a owner character? I was thinking 26… I wanted to go a little older because I think that’s more grating. Any ideas? Suggestions? Come on… I totally know your all really hipsters of some sort anyway….
i hadn’t realized chinese food was so memorable.
6:48. 5:19 here. Yea I remember some of the chinese joints anf other things but not too much else. Yes, the memories of williamsburg in the 90’s.
i’m from here you little shit.
“So you don’t live in NYC, 6:59?
Yea, didn’t think so. ”
I have lived here for 15 years. How about you b*tch?
Is Williamsburg close to Park Slope??
If so, then I like it more than I thought I did.
Park Slope is puuuurty….