Yeah – people in Manhattan moving to Brooklyn to keep it real crack me up.
Like they’re gonna get some sorta bargain in rent moving to the “up and coming neighborhood of Cobble Hill” – muthafucka i’m ill!!
Let me explain how this works……You sell a condo in NYC where you’re paying say $700 a month in CCs and $600 a month in RE taxes.
You buy a similarly priced brownstone in brooklyn and you’re paying NO CCs, $250 in RE taxes and you have a tenant on the garden level paying $1,200 a month in rent….net, net you are $2,250 per month better off!!!!!!!
Miraculously, dibs, there was an announcer who I was actually able to hear and he said that there was a mechanical problem with the A/C line in Manhattan and that it was in the process of being fixed. He also said that they anticipated that it would take a half an hour to fix, so maybe it was just for the the late commuting crowd.
It occurred to me that we put up with an awful lot on this subway system of ours. I wound up going straight up to 42nd on the A, then walking over to the 7, to ride over to Grand Central. As I got in and sat down, thinking I get 5 minutes of peace until I get to work, a wreck of a human being gets on the train in a wheelchair, wheels right up to I was sitting and starts his pitch. “Good morning ladies and gentlemen, I just got out of the hospital……”
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This is the essence of my “brooklyn theory.” people are moving here to show they are more salt of the earth and in touch with the economic climate and want to live someplace more “real.â€
barf. i hope all these faux farmers get mugged and beaten for all they have.
A lot of them just don’t want to look like profligate spenders in hard times.”
This is the essence of my “brooklyn theory.” people are moving here to show they are more salt of the earth and in touch with the economic climate and want to live someplace more “real.â€
–that’s why they hide their private swimming pools and squash courts in the cellar. 😉
Set the final price on the timberland, gonna close early next week. Yay!
Yes, you do, dibs. Now tell us how many of those people are moving to perfectly acceptable nabes like Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights?
By dirty_hipster on December 8, 2010 10:51 AM
Yeah – people in Manhattan moving to Brooklyn to keep it real crack me up.
Like they’re gonna get some sorta bargain in rent moving to the “up and coming neighborhood of Cobble Hill” – muthafucka i’m ill!!
Let me explain how this works……You sell a condo in NYC where you’re paying say $700 a month in CCs and $600 a month in RE taxes.
You buy a similarly priced brownstone in brooklyn and you’re paying NO CCs, $250 in RE taxes and you have a tenant on the garden level paying $1,200 a month in rent….net, net you are $2,250 per month better off!!!!!!!
Maybe only $2,000 after heat.
I know these numbers very well.
Miraculously, dibs, there was an announcer who I was actually able to hear and he said that there was a mechanical problem with the A/C line in Manhattan and that it was in the process of being fixed. He also said that they anticipated that it would take a half an hour to fix, so maybe it was just for the the late commuting crowd.
It occurred to me that we put up with an awful lot on this subway system of ours. I wound up going straight up to 42nd on the A, then walking over to the 7, to ride over to Grand Central. As I got in and sat down, thinking I get 5 minutes of peace until I get to work, a wreck of a human being gets on the train in a wheelchair, wheels right up to I was sitting and starts his pitch. “Good morning ladies and gentlemen, I just got out of the hospital……”
Well, onward and upward…
quote:
This is the essence of my “brooklyn theory.” people are moving here to show they are more salt of the earth and in touch with the economic climate and want to live someplace more “real.â€
barf. i hope all these faux farmers get mugged and beaten for all they have.
*rob*
Yeah – people in Manhattan moving to Brooklyn to keep it real crack me up.
Like they’re gonna get some sorta bargain in rent moving to the “up and coming neighborhood of Cobble Hill” – muthafucka i’m ill!!
A lot of them just don’t want to look like profligate spenders in hard times.”
This is the essence of my “brooklyn theory.” people are moving here to show they are more salt of the earth and in touch with the economic climate and want to live someplace more “real.â€
–that’s why they hide their private swimming pools and squash courts in the cellar. 😉
haha A/C train suck.
going on a month + with stellar L train service!
donatella, I cam up from Philly this morning. Do you know the reason for the A/C troubles???