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Any of the CHs (Cobble, Carroll, Clinton (current)). City was too noisy for me, bf says I have bat ears. Plus I love all the trees.
mshook,
I never lived in one of the buildings with access to the park, so I can’t say I’ve smelled the park in the morning.
What’s trouble? Dogshit?
nsr
Biff, that may be true that BH is changing especially with an influx of the many Manhattanites who know not of such pleasantries. Certainly Bed Stuy is a much friendlier neighborhood than living on the UES.
Ugh, northsloperenter, have you SMELLED Gramercy Park on a summer’s morning?
Everything else being equal:
Gramercy/West Village
East Village
Soho/Chelsea/Murray Hill
UWS/UES
Brooklyn Heights
Center Slope
North Slope
South Slope/Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens
Somewhere else
I mean, if I just got to pick a street or something, it would be hard to turn down Irving Place around 18th or 19th.
Some people I’ve spoken to in Brooklyn, mostly in Brooklyn Heights, so by no means representative of all areas, have suggested it’s lost some of it’s “neighborhoody” feel and has become less intimate and friendly. cornetor, DIBS and gemeni10 seem to disagree with that. Must be a BH thing.
I admit, dylanfan, that neighborhood feeling and friendliness would go away with any move to Manhattan for reasons of convenience. No one says hello to anyone. they don’t even know their neighbors. I would certainly miss that. I would even miss shoveling snow in the morning with my neighbors.
i get to work much faster than i did living in harlem, but then again when i lived up there i would take the local 1 train down instead of switching. maybe express would have been better but i refuse to stand on a train and express trains are always packed.
im also not sure what “culture” you are talking about in harlem. i sure didn’t see it. all i saw was dog poop EVERYWHERE, violent beat-downs, muggings, guns being shot into the air all the time, blatant homophobia, and smelly trash strewn hallways.
*r*
I’m with gemini10. Brooklyn feels more real and down to earth, more neighborhoody. Manhattan is a nice, fun place to visit (and work). I love being so close to Manhattan, while still being able to live in a place like Brooklyn.