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.
Why all the hate on working people who can afford to live in a lovely neighborhood? I sense a lot of jealousy. This should motivate people to make goals and achieve their dreams.
4:37 so how come the best lovers I’ve had have been public school brooklyn boys? the private school guys are just . . . blah. Were you high when you thought you were good in bed?
I love the white Fort Greene moms and dads that think they are the offspring of Bob Marley.
Freaks.
4:33 have babies with me and we’ll send them to public school.I love you.
As far as more moms in FG, yes, but they’re cool moms — they make the dads carry the little brats in slings. Love me them FG slingrats!!!!!
4:33…I nearly fell over laughing at your post.
SOOO freakin good.
I attended private school. Can’t say much about the education, but the drugs are way better and there’s non stop sex, so I’m pro.
4:30, yes I know there were different opinions. I was just making the point that the negative ones were VISCIOUS. If I had to read those kinds of lies about my parents, I’d be really upset. It’s personal. You feel persecuted as a kid. It’s public. They know where they live.
So ok the parents opened themselves up to this. And I don’tthink that was the wisest decision. They seem naive. OR just tough,they don’t give a damn.
But the kids. I dont know. Meanspiritedness like that is just evil.
Blackwater does a fantastic job. Shoot first, ask questions later…
“It’s not stroller central like PS or BH.”
You are dellusional.
More moms in Ft. Greene than PS.
Look at the stats.