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.
I find them hottest at 31 and a half. All downhill from there, beergut city.
I think they’re hotter around 25-30.
Well, when I first mentioned brooklyn boys, I was actually thinking staten island-brooklyn. You know the ones. Across the board hot.
My favorite line of this thread so far is:
“Please be hot, 21-25”
4:55 needs to GET a grip, 4:58. Staten Island boys put those Brownstone sissies to shame!
I would love to be “Best Boy,” 4:55. HAWT!
I love that this thread is going to get 300 EASILY and there weren’t even any snacks.
4:55, I want to film the “making of” video of your film.
4:48 – Whatever, I am pretty sure they will not be any mass exodus as this was threatened by the angry left in 2004 election.
Hopefully, though it will compell enough people to abandon the pathetic democratic and Republican Parties and get serious about electing real qualified candidates who are the best this country has to offer instead of settling for whatever garbage each respective political machine throws up there.
Democrats vs. Repulicans is such a miserable and contrived rivalry that is reminiscent of the Boys vs. Girls Thing in Elementary School, or the haves vs. the have nots of this thread.
Sorry folks, but there is no way that 2 political paties truly represent the interests of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.
It is a system design to keep you pre-occupied with fighting each other so that they can stay in power.