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]
Photo by Trespassers Will
are we seriously discussing the bronx vs williamsburg/bushwick?
**beats head against wall**
“You should shoot for 69 years, HM.”
If you left out years, I just might.
FSRG;
I agree that areas like Parkchester and Castle Hill have more variety. I am thinking of the West Bronx in my statements. For better or worse, however, that particular streetscape image defines the Bronx for many people.
11217, are you trying to turn this otherwise edifying discussion into a joke? 🙂
Heights Magnifico;
I suggest that you re-read what I wrote.
My issue with the Bronx is not that it is too urban, or that it has too many apartment buildings. My issue with it is that it has a uniformity of building type in many buidlings: 6-story apartment buildings (typically built in the 1920’s) that makes for a uniform, drab streetscape.
Your comparison with Manhattan is off. Please find the neighborhood in Manhattan that consists of a single building type, and then we’ll talk.
You should shoot for 69 years, HM.
benson – I guess but to me a street scape of varied and architecturally beautiful 6-story buildings is as attractive if not more so than block after block of identical brownstones or worse – vinyl sided clapboards….but even that said, most blocks in the Bronx that I know arent soley 6-story buildings (that is more common in West Bronx) but a mix of 6story apartments and private homes and a few monstrosities built in the late 50’s-60s.
“however, there is just no variation in building type. Main avenues, side streets – there’s no relief to the eyes from this building type.”
OMG sounds horrible! Actually sounds a lot like um, Manhattan. And people there actually don’t mind living surrounded by buildings. What a concept? Living in a metropolis and surrounded by buildings. Heaven frobid.
“They think Brooklyn is the coolest thing since sliced bread. The Bronx…not so much.”
But JLo is from The Bronx.
I’m still betting on the Bronx. Fsrq and I are going to move in together, then we’ll open a coffee shop but we’ll call it a cafe. We’ll be lazy gentrifiers. It’ll take us 78 years to turn that neighborhood around.