Monday Links
Brooklyn’s Tide of Chains, Decidedly Local [NY Times] Cyclist, Motorcylist Die in Collision on Greene [NY Times] Popsicles in Hot Demand in Brooklyn [NY Daily News] Look to Brooklyn for Prime Bargains [NY Daily News] Brooklyn’s John King Tapped to Lead School Reform [NY Daily News] Is It Time to Move Back from Brooklyn? [NY…
Brooklyn’s Tide of Chains, Decidedly Local [NY Times]
Cyclist, Motorcylist Die in Collision on Greene [NY Times]
Popsicles in Hot Demand in Brooklyn [NY Daily News]
Look to Brooklyn for Prime Bargains [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn’s John King Tapped to Lead School Reform [NY Daily News]
Is It Time to Move Back from Brooklyn? [NY Magazine]
Ride with Us on the Kent Ave Bike Lane! [Brooklyn Paper]
Student-designed Playground in Crown Heights [Brooklyn Eagle]
State Approves 2 Affordable Housing Developments [Brooklyn Eagle]
Photo by Clay Williams, Brownstoner Flickr pool
I gotta say, the listings they feature are attractive. I’m sure they all have monthlies that are sky high, but wow. They seem almost reasonably priced. Has Manhattan been hit much harder than Brooklyn?
Q. What part of Brooklyn life are you unwilling to give up?
A. The long and tedious commute.
C’mon, that’s not bad.
“anyone who would leave BK for Manhattan for the reasons given in NYM’s decision tree should not not let the B train doors hit them on the way out.”
Whatever. Personally I can understand the appeal of walking five minutes from the Met to that place on W. 69th rather than dealing with late-night subway “service” getting back to Brooklyn.
some freaking touchy comments on this thread! brooklyn loyalty is actually hilarious, and i say this as an extremely brooklyn-loyal person. manhattan is the center of the universe and brooklyn isn’t — i’m not ashamed to say it. come to think of it, brooklyn snobs are more annoying than manhattan snobs (and i say this as a tremendous brooklyn snob).
from a real estate perspective, the point the article is making remains — manhattan and brooklyn are certainly part of the same market. sounds like an obvious point, but i definitely remember some arguing otherwise a year ago.
Sometimes parents with little kids move to brooklyn for space, then move back for the schools. It’s more expensive unless you’re giving up two tuition bills from St Ann’s for a PS6 life.
I agree, Bob. Total fluff. The decision tree is nonsense, just an excuse to puff up some RE listings. There are real trade-offs to BK v. MN, but those are not dealt with in any seriousness in the piece. OTOH, anyone who would leave BK for Manhattan for the reasons given in NYM’s decision tree should not not let the B train doors hit them on the way out.
did anyone read that article in RE section about the woman who is happy to pay $1850 for a chelsea one-bedroom with a sinkless bathroom?
*rolling eyes*
Now all those forced to move to Maplewood because Brooklyn is too expensive can move back into the houses vacated by those fair-weather brooklynites who were really tourists from Manhattan.
Also, my Bklyn/PLG/LM chauvinism aside, the actual monthly cost of all the Manhattan alternatives NYMag offers would be vastly higher than their Brooklyn example, or ANY Brooklyn brownstone in renovated, move-in condition. In financial terms, they’re comparing apples to oranges–typical NY Mag nonsense!
I made my comment before downloading the PDF from NYM and seeing that their Brooklyn example was in Lefferts Manor–good riddance doubly to anyone who thinks their Manhattan examples are an equivalent :-)*
*Just kidding, it takes all kinds, even those who, unlike me don’t consider LM to be the center of all good things (poor benighted souls that they are).