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]
Joking aside, robotpony is right that Downtown needs grocery stores and bodegas (sorry *rob*). But this is always the case with former commercial districts converted to residential. Think about how long it’s taken the Financial District, and Battery Park City for that matter, to get amenities like a grocery store. When I worked on Wall Street in the 90s there was absolutely nothing for residents.
@dirty hipster: CofO came through in late Jan and move ins started then, with most people moving in around Feb 1. Think some people had signed leases for as early as Dec 15th, so those people were rightly irritated but it’s all good now. The bigger building down the block is still under construction.
definitely being at Brooklyn Gold (north of Tillary ) isolates you from stores. I don’t think most of the other new development is as far. And absolutely more of those conveniences will open soon. I don’t know how progress on supermarket on Myrtle is going.
And why on way to train would you be looking for beer and toilet paper? SHouldn’t you at least wait until evening on your way home?
I’m curious as to what folks define as downtown Brooklyn. I think of it as the area bounded by Atlantic/Flatbush/Tillary and Court. I don’t consider the Atlantic Yards or Atlantic Center to be downtown Brooklyn at all. I too have always admired many of the buildings on the Fulton Mall area. More people living downtown seems great.
I know what Rob means about the discount stores but I don’t think the Fulton Mall area ever had the likes of some I’ve found in other boroughs or elsewhere in Brooklyn. I’ve found places in the Bronx where you can get 100 packs of rubber gloves for $1, a great place on 86th St. in Bensonhust where they have quarts of delicious cherry or mango juice also for a dollar, or for $1.50 some pickled herring in sour cream, and a place in the Rockaways where they have graph paper composition books for the buck.
“rob thinks differently than most of us- sometimes its refreshing, sometimes its maddening. But he is just like he posts (in real life) and – I am going to apologize to rob before I say it- kinda of sweet.”
I KNEW my ewife secretly <3 *rob*! It’s settled! He can live in the guest suite!
And, 11217, I’m afraid DH just saw you propose to someone else!!!
did the construction delay that messed up move ins at Bklyn Gold ever get resolved? how many days late were they?
I don’t want to make this a woe is me thread. That wasn’t really the case I intended to make. Really my ultimate point is that I think an influx of tenants is good for the neighborhood because it will bring new businesses and provisions to the neighborhood which will have a positive outcome for everyone who lives there. (And yes, most of the buildings have ground floor retail space – Bklyn Gold and the Toren both).
While some of the buildings do offer cold storage, Bklyn Gold at least is not currently in Fresh Direct’s delivery zone. Probably because until a year ago there weren’t very many people t deliver to. That will also likely change as thousands of new residents present new opportunity for Fresh Direct… but it’s not true now, resulting in my walking over to Brooklyn Heights to get my groceries.
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Robotpony,
What about Trader Joe’s or the new Choice Market opening in the J Condo in Dumbo. Either of those close to you?