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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frsq, I agree. And that’s why I think the hipsters will move there. Brooklyn, is becoming TOO expensive. Young kids right out of college need cheap rent. They will go where they can find it.
11217, “Gentrifiers” don’t move into a neighborhood with the goal of gentrifying it. They move in because they can afford it. And then one thing leads to another and then “lazy” people like you start moving in.
You think Bushwick is anything fancy? It’s on par (architecture wise) with many Bronx neighborhoods. Just change the ethnic makeup of the people.
“It was asthma city..” It’s not true.
People need to stop with the blanket bullshit statements regarding how ‘toxic’ WB and GP are. It’s worse than a Teaparty. It’s incorrect. Look at the stats. There are some that just like to parrot what they have heard. In reality, there is no rise in asthma, cancer, etc. Yes, there was oil spilled. It’s trapped under an impermeable layer. There is NO evidence that it is adversely affecting the health of the residents. Look it up.
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Oops, meant red state
“They may be in Bushwick now but with time (I give it 5 years) that area will be overhyped and overpriced.”
you’re almost as good as the NYT in stating the obvious.
it’s already happened – the hipster masses are already in Ridgewood, Queens.
“Pittsburgh, Detroit or St. Louis.”
I discussed this in some thread last week. My feeling is Texas is where the young artists are/will be going; Austin, Dallas, Houston, etc. Will be interesting to see how they blend into such a blue state.
if you’re so concerned about your kids’ health, you should not be living in NYC – period.
Jessibaby, I’m sure. Bushwick, like other “cool” neighborhoods before, it will have it’s moment in the spotlight and then, it’ll be another neighborhood that’s hot.
But “Cool” and “Hot” for different people may mean different things. For many, Park Slope is “cool”.
But relative to where the hipsters are and will be. They may be in Bushwick now but with time (I give it 5 years) that area will be overhyped and overpriced.
FSRG:
I think the “gentrifiers” of the world are lazy now. Nobody wants to go in and do what those who came to the brownstone belt in the 60’s and 70’s did. They want to move into a partially gentrified neighborhood then whine when there aren’t 6 coffee shops on every block instead of opening one themselves. The schools in the Bronx have so far to go to appeal to the people you’re referring to. And quite frankly, the center of Manhattan life has since moved downtown, so Brooklyn is much closer to that than the Bronx. Just the commute alone on the 4/5/6 train would be a deterrent enough to keep me away….that train is so crowded and filthy. Reviving a neighborhood is a lot of work and these days, New Yorkers are obsessed with work and don’t seem to want to devote the kind of time they once did to revitalizing these neighborhoods, they’d prefer to just pay (or overpay in some cases) for the luxury of living in a neighborhood already gentrified by those before them.
As for the Williamsburg article, it’s dumb. There have been kids there forever but now that there are rich, white kids somehow the NYTimes have deemed it worthy of discussion.
I attended a five year old’s birthday party at Radegast Beer Hall yesterday. Was an awesome place for it–tons of space for everybody, good food available all day long, beer for the adults etc.