Bushwick Booming, Or So The Brokers Say
Have you heard the news? Bushwick is hot. “It’s what Williamsburg was in the ’90s [and] what SoHo was in the ’80s,” says Len Moroz, co-owner of Potion Café in the McKibben Lofts building. With the first several condo projects in the area having sold at well above expected prices last year, brokers (hardly an…
Have you heard the news? Bushwick is hot. “It’s what Williamsburg was in the ’90s [and] what SoHo was in the ’80s,” says Len Moroz, co-owner of Potion Café in the McKibben Lofts building. With the first several condo projects in the area having sold at well above expected prices last year, brokers (hardly an unbiased crowd) are predicting that more and more landlords will be converting their rental buildings to condos in the near future. So who’s going to buy all these new condos? “Artsy Yuppies,” says Douglas Elliman’s Lisa Maysonet, who’s had her hand in the sale of several new condos in the nabe. “They’re artsy in look and feel,” she says of the gentrifiers, “but not in occupation.” That is, they have a real paycheck but are still partial to the bed-head look. Do you think there are enough of these folks to fuel a continued condo boom in the area or do you not believe the hype?
Approaching the Summit [NY Post]
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okay, you is just a bunch of haters, okay? Bushwick has got it going on, and y’all can’t even deal wit it. stop hating on da place. don’t hate the playa hate the game! stop hating. stop being haters. y’all is drinking haterade. see yall later, alla-hater! i went to toys-r-us the otha day, guess what i got? mr. po-hater head. i bet you all is a bunch of chronic masturhaters. y’all is riding the ele-hater, or do you take the esca-hater? you remind me of darth hater.
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i love bushwick!!!!!!!!!
Bushwick is hot my you know what. Stop drinking the kool-aid. Every crap slumlord neighborhood in New York over the past 15 years gets hyped, hawked and sold to glassy eyed morons consuming every line of crap printed in Time Out or New York Magazine. Those slumlords you are making rich are more than likely related to the editors and authors of those articles. The emperor has no clothes. Open your eyes.
Newt Gingrich demonstrated some smooth bipartisan moves, and perhaps a backhanded slap at Rudy Giuliani, at a high-powered panel discussion Thursday afternoon at The Four Seasons moderated by PBS host Charlie Rose.
The former House Speaker made an assertion often heard by local Democrats, but certainly not national Republicans. His comment seemed a bit out of place among the group of New York power brokers, such as Rupert Murdoch of News Corp. and Sanford Weill of Citigroup, who were in attendance.
With Mayor Michael Bloomberg looking on, Gingrich said that New York’s dramatic turnaround in safety and cleanliness could be traced not to Rudy Giuliani’s stewardship of the city, but back one mayor further, “starting with Mayor Dinkins hiring of additional police,” Gingrich said.
Gingrich later cited William Bratton’s book “Turnaround” as proof he was “only trying to be fair.”
Gingrich went out of his way to credit Giuliani and Bloomberg for continuing the work started by Dinkins.
Really needed to vent that out…..
FUCK OFF ALL OF YOU!!!! AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!! I WANT MY FUCKING HOME BACK!!!!!!!!!! Move to Vancouver if you want Vancouver! Stop turning New York into the fucking mall of America. I hate Rudy fucking G. And, chances are (although, I may have drank with you at Doc Holidays) that I hate you too!
Park Slopin:
I agree with you that Bed Stuy is a striving neighborhood, even the bad parts. My point is that Bushwick is also a neighborhood on the come up. Besides the architectural stand point (which sucks), Bushwick has an easy commute (L, J lines), more working class residents and more affordable housing. And let me tell you there isn’t any Brownstones any where priced $400-500K, not even a shell. Take it from me, I’ve been searching high and low for the past year, and if you find one please contact me. Peace!!!
Starbucks would be great. An employer that gives health insurance to full and part-time employees is never a bad thing, especially in a neighborhood where most employers (including all of your twee hipster organic stores and cafes) don’t bother.
I just wish one would open on Havemeyer.
PS: pardon the typos, sneaking in posts from work. LOL