From the West Village to Fort Greene, With Few Regrets
This weekend’s real estate section in the Times has a story that’s likely to resonate with many ex-Manhattanites who’ve moved to Brooklyn and find the living across the East River a whole lot easier. The article is about Hali Lee and Peter von Ziegesar, a couple with three kids who uprooted from the West Village,…
This weekend’s real estate section in the Times has a story that’s likely to resonate with many ex-Manhattanites who’ve moved to Brooklyn and find the living across the East River a whole lot easier. The article is about Hali Lee and Peter von Ziegesar, a couple with three kids who uprooted from the West Village, where they’d lived for 15 years, to Fort Greene. The pair bought a house (a former crack den, actually) on South Portland Avenue in late ’05 and say that while they miss a few things about the city (chief among them their old proximity to the Village Community School on West 10th Street, which their kids still attend), Brooklyn has presented a number of quality-of-life advantages. The perks, according to Ms. Lee, include an environment that doesn’t feel like a high-end mall, as the Village did; a space where their brood’s noise doesn’t disturb the neighbors; their new borough’s down-to-earth population (There are mixed-race couples, and black people here who aren’t nannies); and the fact that their kids can now go play on the sidewalk and in the backyard.
In a House, You Can Make All the Noise You Want [NY Times]
Photo by lunalaguna.
The world would be SO much better off if there were no more Republicans.
If we have another as president, Buenos Aires here I come!!!!
There is a lot more evidence than PS 321 that involved parents can go a long way towards bettering a public school. Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Carrol Gardens, and Boerum Hill all have elementary schools that are considerably better than they were 5-10 years ago and they are still getting better.
I am not against charter schools. Over crowding may require them. But would a Charter School in Fort Green accurately represent the demographic of Fort Green? I’m not optimistic.
“Why do you think Public Schools in Long Island are so much better?”
According to whom?
Republicans also blame the “lefties” for all the problems of the world – except that the “righties” had complete and uncontested control over the entire country for the past 8 years during which they have proven that all there policies dont work and completely screw the country up.
4:05 Thank you for showing us so clearly what so many brownstoner readers really think about a nice family moving to Brooklyn.
Those posts are truly disgusting.
“Yea, you’re right. We should only care about kids in Brooklyn.
No one else matters.”
IT’S A BLOG ABOUT BROOKLYN.
Republicans don’t want to fund the schools because they think all the white children go to private schools and all the brown and black children go to public.
And we all know how they feel about brown and black children.
And no, I’m not being sarcastic.
I think it’s time to start calling these Republicans out for what they really are:
RACIST!
3:57 – public schools are having problems nationally because of whiney Republicans who do not want to pay any taxes.
They say things like “mandates” and “entitlements” in the argument to lower the taxes that they have to pay. However, they are the first ones to ask the govt to insure their money in the bank, or to rebuild their million $ beach front home.
They also make stupid arguments that private entities do everything better than public organizations.
There is no trying to reason with someone with your attitude, 4:03.
None.