Downtown is Brooklyn's New Hot Spot
The fastest growing part of Brooklyn is not Park Slope, Williamsburg, or Brooklyn Heights. It’s Downtown Brooklyn, according to the Post. Ten years ago, only 3,270 people lived in the 60 block area, today there are more than 9,000 people. Since 2007, 28 condo and rental projects have been built, with 30 others stalled by…
The fastest growing part of Brooklyn is not Park Slope, Williamsburg, or Brooklyn Heights. It’s Downtown Brooklyn, according to the Post. Ten years ago, only 3,270 people lived in the 60 block area, today there are more than 9,000 people. Since 2007, 28 condo and rental projects have been built, with 30 others stalled by the economy. The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership estimates over 16,000 people by year’s end, as projects like Brooklyn Gold, and others, near completion. The Partnership’s Joe Chan estimates much more growth by 2012, and cites the building of Bruce Ratner’s Barclay’s Arena to boost the area even more. The impact of the arena will be historic. It is a gamechanger for Downtown and the borough.
Brooklyn’s Hot Spot [NY Post]
Montrose! Did I miss the announcement? Are you guest hosting again? How long is the gig this time?
Benson, to tie this thread together with yesterday’s, there’s both a value to higher density neighborhoods and brownstone neighborhoods. There’s no inconsistency — we can preserve brownstone neighborhoods and allow for high density development in appropriate areas.
It’s a montage, Dave. I’ve was just overruled by someone who is better at this than I am. Enjoy the show.
unfortunately these new “residents” will get rid of the kinds of stores i like and that are non existent in completely gentrified neighborhoods, which is sad. the problem with turning everything upscale is that there’s come a tipping point where it all falls on top of you like an avalanche and you wind up back where you started from. these new residents are close enough to manhattan and the uber gentrified sections of brooklyn that i HOPE they dont start whining and pining for yuppie amenities. but.. im sure that will happen 🙁
*rob*
Why do the pictures keep changing? Each successive one has made downtown look less appealing!!!!
I changed the picture. Beau Guest was right, former pic was of Manhattan looking towards Bklyn.
Hey, I know old buildings, not new ones. 🙁
i like downtown brooklyn a lot. it reminds me of jersey city and newark (in a good way btw)
*rob*
If i wanted to live in a high rise I’d have stayed in Manhattan!!!!!!
Whenever a much smaller building(than these high-rises downtown) is proposed for a neighborhood such as Carroll Gardens, the immediate reaction from the choir is overburdened infrastructure, schools, subway, blah, blah, blah. So downtown actually has added thousands of new people and has it burdened subways, schools, etc?
How could downtown Brooklyn be so popular??? There are no brownstones there – only “craptastic” new buildings!!
Posted by: benson at February 12, 2010 9:18 AM
and obviously buildings of low quality. i don’t know who would want to live there.