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
What’s the new true hipster mecca…Bushwick?
Queens
I think I’ve officially jumped the snark.
I happen to really like Williamsburg, but it definitely doesn’t seem to be the edgy place it once was (this coming from a Brooklyn Heights resident, mind you).
What’s the new true hipster mecca…Bushwick?
I thought this was a fine and factual article. I applaud it for not using the word hipster at all. The people sound nice.
“I hope not too much attention is paid to people who dress their 2 year olds in Ramones shirts?”
I dressed my 2 year old in an Eraserhead shirt. But she’s 20 now and wasn’t harmed by it.
“aging hipster” = dumpster. I proudly proclaim my status.
DH, you’re wrong. 11217 will be popping up to pimp NYC restaurant week. after that, you’re right – ie IT’s OPEN SEASON and the boy probably restocked his artillery shelves
And there’s my favorite hipster now!
‘sup, Holmes?!?!?!
i don’t really see why it matters. to each their own. i personally would chose greenpoint over wburg (better schools).
yawn – this is nothing new. have fun, i’m sure 11217 will be here shortly making fun of stupid quotes and calling everyone vapid
“Hipster” is an undefinable term
and says more about the user than the object of reference (I once got called an ‘aging hipster’).