Hey Corcoran, Won't You Be Our Neighbor?
The Prospect Lefferts Gardens blog Across the Park is inviting the city’s powerhouse brokerages to set up shop in the neighborhood. A recent post notes that though name-brand brokerages sell properties in the area, none of them has a storefront: Almost every time there’s a big listing (sometimes a small listing) in PLG, it’s offered…
The Prospect Lefferts Gardens blog Across the Park is inviting the city’s powerhouse brokerages to set up shop in the neighborhood. A recent post notes that though name-brand brokerages sell properties in the area, none of them has a storefront:
Almost every time there’s a big listing (sometimes a small listing) in PLG, it’s offered by a larger, highly recognizable firm. In addition, we hypothesize that sooner or later, the big guys will want to expand into Crown Heights South and Wingate. Wouldn’t PLG make a stellar location to grow from? … We would also like to see one of the big firms locate in PLG because we think it would contribute remarkably to our commercial landscape and accelerate the addition of amenities – nothing fancy, we’re talking ATMs and some better stocked shops on Flatbush.
It’s an interesting question: Do big-time real estate offices beget gentrification, or is it the other way ’round?
Big Firms: Come on Down [Across the Park]
Go fuck yourself Montrose Morris.
The poster at 2:31 is obviously such phoney baloney. What an idiot.
Bob, you would know, so I stand corrected, as far as individual agents go. I am still cynical enough to think that the larger corporate entity doesn’t care past the bottom line. I want to live in a great community. If a large corporate entity has a stake in that community, and works to its improvement FOR EVERYONE, that is how big business should act. That is much more important that being right about everything, and I have no problem saying otherwise.
Since that isn’t the real Brower Park, at 1:30, and I aught to know, it goes to show that anyone can get by registration, etc. As I have said before, you only need to click on the name to see past posts. The real Brower Park comments on neighborhood issues. The fake one comments on his authenticity. The real Brower Park (me) is thinking about retiring the name, as I retired CHP, because it just ain’t worth the trouble.
People write in that everyone should have a handle, and I agree, I don’t like to post anonymously, as it’s too hard to keep track of “voices” in a conversation. However, if you have someone who just doesn’t like you, as I have had for about 2 years, they can make your posting life crazy. As someone said recently, “Who gives a f@*k if someone steals your id?” I can only respond that I do, but I’m moving on. Done here.
Montrose Morris,
You wrote:
“Sure, the big realtors bring their monied clients into the nabe, but then what? For the most part, their realtors don’t live in that neighborhood, know little about the neighborhood, and care little beyond selling a property and getting their commission, which is taken out of the neighborhood, as well”.
This sounds logical, BUT FWIW some of PLG’s biggest RE boosters are brokers who work for BHS and Corcoran who live in our neighborhood and, as far as I can see, are very much concerned with the neighborhood’s well being over and above their own economic interests–I guess you’d call it enlightened self interest.
Erin,
No one comparable to MKG (who FWIW lived in Lefferts Manor years ago) The closest, I suppose, was Shirley Juergensen in the 70s and 80s, through whom we [sort of] bought our house, but she eventually gave up her own business and worked for Wm. B. May, BHS’s predecessor.
To everyone else,
Don’t you LOVE the new gray type that’s so easy to ignore? 🙂
Brownstoner attempted to require registration in the past. The number of daily comments plummeted and the board became a clique comprised of 6-7 people. So don’t expect registration to become the norm anytime soon.
This thread started out with the question:
“Do big-time real estate offices beget gentrification, or is it the other way ’round?”
What’s the answer? I think it is the other way ’round. Young people colonize on the fringes where they can afford to live. A funny thing happens along the way to adulthood though. It’s start becoming more important to have amenities around you and you become more able to afford them. That’s where capitalism is great; recognizing and taking advantage of new opportunities. PLG and LG and every other funky neighborhood will get their Corcoran offices the minute the market demands it.
As for the trolls…I’d make them register but it’s not my blog.
If you block someone’s IP address, there’s no way for that person to unblock the address without…well, without walking into Brownstoner headquarters, sitting down at a computer and unblocking it. Unless of course the troll is psychic.
Kuroko, past experience shows that you’re wrong. Go back and look at previous threads.