Newcomers Find Crown Heights Retail Lacking
North Crown Heights may be luring more affluent buyers with its gorgeous—and recently landmarked—rowhouses, but some of the newbie homeowners think the area’s shopping scene leaves a lot to be desired. According to an article in today’s Sun, as more buyers see the neighborhood as an affordable alternative to Prospect Heights, they’re also anxious to…
North Crown Heights may be luring more affluent buyers with its gorgeous—and recently landmarked—rowhouses, but some of the newbie homeowners think the area’s shopping scene leaves a lot to be desired. According to an article in today’s Sun, as more buyers see the neighborhood as an affordable alternative to Prospect Heights, they’re also anxious to see a retail renaissance on thoroughfares like Nostrand. A Wall Street worker who recently closed on an $870,000 Hampton Place home, for example, says he’s ready to see more restaurants in the ‘hood: “If there was something to patronize, I’d willingly spend money there. I’d like to see more amenities. People have money here. Somebody has to be the pioneer and open up something. It’s just a matter of time.” Think he’s right?
Retailers So Far Fail To Follow Homebuyers to North Crown Heights [Sun]
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You did not read the article fully then, 12:51.
Prices in MANHATTAN rose 20%.
Prices in Brooklyn rose 5%.
The same amount as my ING account.
You are not keeping pace with your current events 12:41. Just this morning a study was released that stated residential prices in NYC has risen nearly 20% while the rest of the country is dropping. I guess you fit in the “people that watch things happen” category that 12:26 wrote about.
To the poster who contends that Brooklyn Heights has a disproportionate number of pedophiles: please provide some evidence (a link to a survey, a newspaper article, anything that might verify your claim).
Otherwise, I don’t believe you. At least the people who noted the high crime rate in Crown Heights backed it up with evidence.
“That same data says Prospect heights is 80% black”
That is actually a lie.
Show me that data.
“Ten years from now, like many other neighborhoods we will be looking at these prices are bargain basement.”
This way of thinking is really scary. We just had the LARGEST HOUSING BOOM IN U.S. HISTORY. This does not mean that this will continue indefinitely. In fact, it probably means that it won’t. You are basing this on the last 7 years and that is scary. If you look at the previous 30 years, housing prices in Crown Heights and elsewhere in the country did not move anywhere near to the extent of the past decade.
You are delusional if you think that in 10 years, these homes will go for 3 million dollars.
Totally delusional. What just happened with housing prices was an anomoly. It probably will not happen again in our lifetime.
12:34 I live in the area and no census forms came to my house or my other white friends places in Bedford Stuyvesant… 2010 should tell the real story… That same data says Prospect heights is 80% black…
12:26 I just got up from my 12 year nap and Ft. Greene and Prospect Hts is not the same anymore… I am wide awake for Crown Hights and Bedford Stuyvesant… Beautiful homes for around 800K… And if you want a really good deal walk around the hood and talk to people… Many are ready to retire and move to somewhere warm.
“As of 2007 of the approximately the approximately 200,000 residents in Crown Heights, 77 percent were of African American or Caribbean decent, 10 percent Hispanic decent 7 percent were Hasidic Jews and the remaining 6 percent were from various other ethnice groups”
12:27…according to this, MOST of the people are not white. not that it matters to me, but clearly by the demographic of the neighborhood, seeing mostly white faces would not be the norm in crown heights.
believe it or not if you stand on the platform on the AC at Norstrand Ave in the AM you see the who is in the area and most of the new people are young and white and have no fears about crime drug dealers etc… Most are new Europeans that are not scared of Black people and have no bad history with Black Americans… These are the friends and cousins to the people that live in Harlem also…