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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Crime Heights is a great neighborhood.
Great place to raise kids.
lol…1:36 you sound like you came from a small dusty surburban town where they still sing “We are the World”. This is NY, no one is in the closet anymore. Stop pretending you don’t see racial overtones.
Crown Heights is perfect. Every day here is like an episode from Sesame Street. All of the people represent each color of the rainbow and we get along in perfect harmony. For all of our hard work cleaning up this neighborhood, we expect Nordstom to open it’s first NYC location on Nostrand, followed by Trader Joes. Then everything will be even more perfect here. We will hold hands each night and sing We are the World, while making smores in our 100 year old fireplaces. We will make love all night to our perfect husbands, and wake up refreshed, taking the train 5 minutes to Manhattan.
WWWWAAAAAAAAAA AAAHHHHH Shit Damn. Crown Heights is not Brooklyn Heights??????!!!!!!!!
3 Words (GO F ck Yo r Sef)
The What
Someday this war is gonna end……
if all these hoods change to cater to white folk who think they have taste, where wil one get authetic jamaican food???
Brooks Valley on the corner of Tompkins Hancock.
“Why is PS worth 3 million and BH 10 million?”
It’s a little thing called LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION.
The cardinal rule of real estate since the beginning of time.
Ever heard it before?
pardon me homes, but would you pass the Gray Poupon?
11:54 – an almost fair assesment of the Crown Heights Riots – except for the:
“squared off against each other On one side were primarily some members of the local Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Hasidic Jewish Community and on the other were some members of the local African-American/Caribbean-American community.”
In reality, there was no “Squaring off” – what happened was a group of African-Americans began beating the crap out of the Jewish driver; then over the next couple of hours a large crowd of Black people began gathering near the scene and began to get worked up into a frenzy until they started yelling ‘Let’s go to Kingston Avenue and get a Jew!’. (most of this is on video BTW) – Which they did – Yankel Rosenbaum – and he was stabbed.
For the next 3 days many African-Americans continued rioting, throwing rocks and bottles at any Jews they saw. Marching and yelling things like “death to the Jews”, “heil Hitler” and burning Israeli flags. 8 cops were shot, dozens of Jews were injured including another person who was stabbed and stores were looted
Meanwhile our wonderful Mayor David Dinkins sat by and did nothing until 2 days later.
this is EXACTLY the reason why crown heights is not worth million dollar homes yet.
anyone who’s paying that much for this neighborhood is overpaying.
period.
Posted by: guest at November 8, 2007 10:53 AM
Why is PS worth 3 million and BH 10 million? The stores and schools they have that CH doesn’t. Stores and schools are worth between 2 to 8 million dollars even though these areas are 5 to 10 minutes from CH.