Williamsburg All Grown Up
Bougie couples with kids are buying in Williamsburg. That’s the central message of the cover story from yesterday’s New York Times real estate section titled “Williamsburg, Toddlertown.” There’s one couple who bailed on Park Slope after only a few months because, well, let them tell you: It felt really suburban to me, said the 29-year-old…
Bougie couples with kids are buying in Williamsburg. That’s the central message of the cover story from yesterday’s New York Times real estate section titled “Williamsburg, Toddlertown.” There’s one couple who bailed on Park Slope after only a few months because, well, let them tell you: It felt really suburban to me, said the 29-year-old jewelry designer and blogger. Park Slope has puppets and guitar strumming for kids. In Williamsburg, it is like rock ‘n’ roll for kids. And there are more and more of these kids. The Williamsburg Northside Preschool has grown from a daycare center in 1999 to a ten-classroom school with plans to expand to a third building and accommodate up to the fifth grade. The demand from families has also prompted the developers of such high profile projects as 80 Met and The Edge to reconfigure apartment layouts to include more three-bedroom offerings. Any readers out there fall into this demographic of recent family-sized converts to The Burg? Tell us why you made the call.
Williamsburg, Toddlertown [NY Times]
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Marble Hill = Blue Marble and Turkey Hill’s love child
I thought Marble Hill was the overpriced ice cream place that’s only so-so and that *rob* hates?
“I love Marble Hill. Does that count as the Bronx?”
geographically
marble hill = manhattan!!
I love Marble Hill. Does that count as the Bronx?
Well, as a Bronx girl I agree with fsrg – and the Bronx is much more varied than people think. Ethnically and architecturally. My family still lives up there in Amalgamated, just below Van Cortlandt Park, and the Grad Concourse is magnificent. The Southern part of the Borough is coming back but the surprise is the streets and streets of apartment buildings. Many of them are Pre-Wars, or 30’s- they vary in detail and quirkiness. They often hide lovely little courtyards and parks, and many of them have very fine ornament. Transportation isn’t the best- but like Brooklyn, it’s a “outer Borough” to our Mayor’s thinking.
Stuyvesant Town was once a peaceful, reasonably priced, enclave in lower Manhattan, if not architecturally uninspired — built by MetLife for post WWII housing demand. Now…..after being flipped for an insane amt of money pre-housing bust, and its subsequent bankrupcy — tenants are shivering in underheated and undermaintained apartments. Sad.
Benson, misunderstood.
But Stuyvesant town comes to mind.
Foster,
agree with you about blanket statements but… people are too quick to provide “stats” as their proof that their opinion is correct. Statistics, in their pure (un political-bias funded) form, are very easy to manipulate depending on the wishful intended result.
Global warming, healthcare, cfl bulbs, cyclists accidents… . All topics supported by statistics. Except, more and more we are learning they (the statistics) are not complete or have been manipulated, blah, blah blah….
point being, don’t be so quick to assume statistics are correct, especially when they go along with your opinion
Also, the oil is not the only toxic concern in the area. I did considerable research on a home in GP that I was considering buying three years ago. Didn’t buy but as far a toxins, all seemed good. Last year a huge toxic plum of dry cleaning chemical was found directly under the house. All of these areas were very industrial. Dumping industrial waste. There is no perfect source for records of this. Notice the recent find in DUMBO/Vinegar Hill?