TONY Recommends: Carroll G, Sunset P and The Wick
The title of Time Out New York’s current issue is Apartments: How to find a place when you’re ready for the next phase of your life. Not surprisingly, the County of Kings pops up more than once. Carroll Gardens gets the nod in the You’re tired of hip, gritty and edgy category. And if you’re…
The title of Time Out New York‘s current issue is Apartments: How to find a place when you’re ready for the next phase of your life. Not surprisingly, the County of Kings pops up more than once. Carroll Gardens gets the nod in the You’re tired of hip, gritty and edgy category. And if you’re looking for one of New York’s last untouched neighborhoods, TONY recommends Sunset Park where you are encouraged not to worry about the lack of nightlife: “I remember all Williamsburg was 10 to 15 years ago was a bar and a bulletin board near the L stop,” says 34-year Sunset Parker Jason Hernandez-Rosenblatt. “And look what happened there. And for those young lovebirds looking to play house but not quite ready to breed, there’s always Bushwick. Once people realize they can get a 1,000-square-foot loft with skylights for $1,300 a month and still be only ten minutes from Manhattan, the 300-square-foot, fifth-floor walk-up with the shower in the kitchen on Ludlow Street for $2,300 doesn’t look so great anymore, says Chrissy Rossettie, an ArdorNY agent.
Apartments: Urban Renewal [TONY]
I think the park is great but so is being closer in carroll gardens to Manhattan and being able to walk to the promenade and i just continue to say the yuppies in carroll gardens have the same intellect as park slope just a cleaned up version. The only difference is the old ladies that still own some homes in carroll gardens. Both areas are great, i just like carroll gardens a little better but prospect park is great.
cg is quite lovely, but for nearly the same money, i’d still take park slope anyday over it.
being so close to prospect park and to be able to wake up on a spring or summer saturday and stumble up there is an amazing treat.
and if you’re in the north slope, the access to the q train and 2/3 trains far surpasses being close to the f train, in my opinion.
i think people far undervalue being close to the park. if you lived there, you’d know…
they make it sounds like CG is some undiscovered enclave! it is pretty impossible to get a decent/cheap apt there. sunset park for $1000–yes. CG is already over and done with. that’s a million dollar brownstone area…even the old italian ladies (my landlord) are hip to it and the rents they charge has skyrocketed.
if you take the J/Z at Gates during rush hour (it runs express)it is indeed 15 minutes to Delancy
fine, make it 15 minutes then. Who freakin cares? Still closer than anywhere in souf brooklyn.
It’s not the mafioso in CG, it’s the older neighborhood folk, many of whom are living in the same house they lived all their lives, who look out for one another. The nice thing about Carroll Gardens is that many of the cops, transit workers, small store owners, and others still live in the neighborhood and it hasn’t been completely overrun with yuppies, hipsters, or whatever you want to call the newest arrivals. At least, not yet.
sorry for the double, slightly amended post
10 minutes by jet pack
after all, bushwick is the future mothafuckas
10 minutes by jet pack
2007 is the future mothafuckas