Affordable rents in Carroll Gardens
I wanted to ask how much longer do we have to wait for rents to come down to affordable levels for families? There are alot of families that would like to move back into Carroll Gardens but can not afford to compete with landlords that rent to 5 or 6 adults that work and pay…
I wanted to ask how much longer do we have to wait for rents to come down to affordable levels for families? There are alot of families that would like to move back into Carroll Gardens but can not afford to compete with landlords that rent to 5 or 6 adults that work and pay 500 dollars each a month making the joy of the homeowners wallet but destroying the happiness of many families
Hannible, I would not be surprised if your parents left shortly after 1980 because they gave birth to you, which would explain why your memory of the place is so terrible. These days, most rental apartments in Carroll Gardens are 1.5 bedrooms with all rooms open to each other. The rental apartments are usually occupied by childless couples, who pay between $1000 and $1200 each to split one apartment. The owners live in fairly spacious duplexes and triplexes, and have children. Of course, there are exceptions, including rent-controlled places where families share railroads, just like they did back in the 1930s when it was an Italian slum.
Yes I do Oh Grand King Mopar, Please enlighten a poor peasant like me on what it is like to live in the great Kingdom of Carroll Gardens
Hannible, your posts are bizarre. Do you even live in New York? The situation you describe would be very unusual in Carroll Gardens.
You call the 4 to 5 people sharing an apartment friends? Makes no difference to me or the landlord as long as they are paying their rents right? I can tell you my family was paying 250.00 dollars a month in 1980. Now for the same place well I will not go there.. you figure it out
Hannible, if you are really the age you claim and grew up in Carroll Gardens as you claim, then you would know that in the 1930s whole families shared those one-bedroom floor-throughs. The parents got the front room, and all the kids (girls and boys together) got bunk beds in the middle room without the window. And if you lived in New York as you claim, you would know the newcomers in Carroll Gardens have plenty of space and do not share it with strangers.
Vinca it is perfectly fine to have a loving family of 10 sleeping in one room, what I have an issue with is 4-6 perfect strangers living together just to afford to pay rent to some slumlord.
Too bad your attention is too far up a post-modern tunnel that you missed the irony of the Anatole France extracts. I grew up in a 3-generation household where lives and rooms were gladly shared. Never did we believe this sharing constituted deprivation or reduced us to “living like animals.” Never were we fixated on attaining “luxury living” in separate cubicles. You want something modern? Try these: “Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.†—Lenny Bruce. And, “You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
—Anne Lamott.
These are all quotes from the pre modern era. They were from a time when families lived together and cared for each other. They believed in some form of church structure, Look at us we turned all the churches into condos. We are forced to live like animals 3 or 4 to a room. If this is considered luxuary living?
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” —Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894. Also Anatole France: “That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.” And: “It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.”