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]
> i LIKE that cities have certain pockets of grit, grime,
> and crime. would i ever live in a place like that again? NO!
Two words: psychic vampirism.
how about the market on Tillary/Jay (although not huge) ?
Supermarkets in any of this city are not always around the corner. I walk through plenty areas of eastside manhattan below 34th street and think lots of people around here but supermarkets are rare. Yes they exist, but plenty of people probably walk 10 -15 minutes to get there.
rob is unique- I give him that 🙂 and his opinions may not be what anyone expects, but rob is neither a poseur or a troll.
and i have nothing against the buildings themselves. i LOVE high rise buildings and wish there were more. i just dont like the type of people these new buildings attract, that’s all.
*rob*
CG ups- I damn them too! 🙂 (I’ll email you later btw)
The thing that bothers me about downtown is that so many great local businesses are now gone, or will be pushed out. Most people look down their noses at the stores that were there for years, and were very successful before the building boom. I was downtown at least several times a week- I lived a few blocks away. A lot of the changes are good, but there are a lot I regret. What I do hope is that many buildings will not be torn down- there are some real beauties along Fulton and Livingston, but they don’t get noticed and the fronts are a mess of signage and junk. It would be great if they restored some of the storefronts as they did on Atlantic Ave.
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FtGreeneCorey -dont get too worked up – Rob is just a poser (and troll), if he ever got the world he claims to want – he’d be on the first bus out of town (and rightfully so)
lol okaaaaay with that. excuse me if i LIKE that cities have certain pockets of grit, grime, and crime. would i ever live in a place like that again? NO! youre the fool paying the absurd amount of money to live there. but youre also the fool who whines for lame ammenities. i am far from a troll, im quite legit.
*rob*
downtown is fine. i think the high rise developments fit in a lot better there than sticking them in the middle of brownstone brooklyn. i mean really, brooklyn is a big place, why begrudge other neighborhoods for being different. if you hate it, just don’t go there. that said, was at an awesome book reading at the powerhouse arena. highly recommend that bookstore. also stopped by halcyon reconds, tons of vinyl with booth to listen before you buy. there are some cool restaurants and random shops, including that crazy candy store. i mean, i wouldn’t want to live but i have no problem with it existing. better the yuppies move there than flood my neighborhood. glass half full.
AND if i have a sudden hankering for a west elm light fixture or new bo concept couch, then i don’t even have to go into manhattan. ha. i kid only sort of. west elm actually has some cute new drum shades. dam them and their stupid catalogs!
FtGreeneCorey -dont get too worked up – Rob is just a poser (and troll), if he ever got the world he claims to want – he’d be on the first bus out of town (and rightfully so)
FtGreeneCorey, you’ve been here before as far as I can remember. Most of his stuff can’t be taken seriously. He doesn’t even now what most of those buildings are anyway.