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]
“barf. ok im outta this thread, i now have a yuppie migraine.”
RAOTFLMMFAO!!! The mere mention of “Apple” drives *rob* away.
robotpony- any of the new buildings have spaces on the ground floor for businesses?
hahaha thanks bxgirl 🙂
*rob*
don’t these new buildings have refrigerated storage rooms for fresh direct boxes? a friend of mine lives in a luxury high rise in tribeca and has one, i had heard something about that being a marketing thing for yuppie luxury high rises. honestly, i’m glad to have the option of lots of great local shops but fresh direct is an option for the poor hungry toilet-paperless people of dumbo, no?
” In my six minute walk to the train, I do not pass a single store where you can buy a cup of coffee or a quart of milk, or a six pack of beer or a roll of toilet paper. Any of those basic things that you’d need to run out and get…”
And that’s why rents in these buildings are cheaper compared to new construction in more established neighborhoods with oodles of ameneties. Once those things start to arrive, rents will increase (unless rents are stabbed, I know Brooklyner is)
FtGreeneCorey:
Will you marry me?
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. Trolls are malicious- rob’s not. Poseurs pretend to be what they’re not- I think that statement of his is more blunt than anything else. Not to say it couldn’t be called illogical- 🙂
Yes, the new Concorde Market on Jay and Tillary is a good option but have any of you gone in there? Many of the shelves are empty. I think they’re still getting off their feet. It will be a good option eventually, but they don’t have a whole lot in there at the moment.
I find it kind of amazing that people are debating this, but look around downtown brooklyn: unlike most other neighborhoods in Brooklyn and the rest of the city, there aren’t many bodegas and shops, etc. In my six minute walk to the train, I do not pass a single store where you can buy a cup of coffee or a quart of milk, or a six pack of beer or a roll of toilet paper. Any of those basic things that you’d need to run out and get… let alone actual fruits, vegetables and meats. New tenants in these buildings will likely bring about businesses that serve the needs of all the tenants in the neighborhood, and ultimately that’s a good thing.
I would say this sentence:
“i LIKE that cities have certain pockets of grit, grime, and crime. would i ever live in a place like that again? NO!”
…is the definition of a poseur