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In a rather glowing profile of The Developers Group today, The Daily News cites one sales strategy of its founder, Elan Padeh: He asks prospective Brooklyn buyers which neighborhoods they like in Manhattan, and then directs them towards their Brooklyn equivalents. Here’s how he lines them up: Park Slope = Upper West Side Williamsburg =…
In a rather glowing profile of The Developers Group today, The Daily News cites one sales strategy of its founder, Elan Padeh: He asks prospective Brooklyn buyers which neighborhoods they like in Manhattan, and then directs them towards their Brooklyn equivalents. Here’s how he lines them up:
Park Slope = Upper West Side
Williamsburg = East Village + Tribeca
Fort Greene = West Village
Dumbo = Soho
Carroll Gardens = Nolita
Pretty accurate, we’d say. What are some others?
How a Sales Team Led Borough’s Condo Push [NY Daily News]
Photos by lukasspee and Voice of Fox
and, moving out of the brownstone belt
Bensonhurst = Chinatown
Brighton Beach = Novosibirsk
Kensington = Karachi
Flatbush = Port au Prince
Midwood = Beitar Illit
Soho will be prime for a long time unless it’s decimated by a nuclear bomb. Only then it goes back to the pre-70s cheap cast iron spaces where artist and galleries took shops. As it is, a wholesale economic $$$ collapse, if it happens, will be that bomb. And you can move in.
I assume a “Sphinkster” is an assinine hipster.
I always thought “Prime Soho” was West of Broadway, ending at West Broadway.
Good god Broadway sucks. The only store that is okay is uniqlo, and maybe bloomies.
gowanus comparison = yawn
quote:
Is soho really big enough or diverse enough that there are “prime” and “not prime” sections? I think not…
well prim soho is considered the two blocks on broadway between houston and spring. this is mostly just for commercial stores tho. tho honestly most of them are shuttering hardcore… guess just closed down (tho i have never heard or seen anyone where guess in years so maybe that’s why) and a ton of other big name stores are all closing. the rent in the area is too much even for big chains.
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Downtown BK = Hell’s Kitchen
Gowanus = My Sphinkster
I think folks forgot the most obvious one:
Brooklyn Heights = Upper East Side