Brooklynites Jumping Ship to Manhattan?
Could it be that many self-proclaimed Brooklyn loyalists are ready to trade it all in at the first sign of a recession? Was the borough’s surging popularity in recent years merely a function of Manhattan becoming unaffordable? Or is Brooklyn still a first choice for many? The Real Estate section cover story from yesterday’s New…
Could it be that many self-proclaimed Brooklyn loyalists are ready to trade it all in at the first sign of a recession? Was the borough’s surging popularity in recent years merely a function of Manhattan becoming unaffordable? Or is Brooklyn still a first choice for many? The Real Estate section cover story from yesterday’s New York Times certainly tries to create the impression that, given the chance, a number of folks who professed to like Brooklyn in recent years are finding the lure of affordable rents and proximity to work just too much to resists. Take Andrew Baisley, who describes himself as a “cheerleader for Brooklyn.” The Bushwick resident, though, just last month jumped at the chance to rent a $2,100-a-month one-bedroom in Chelsea. When you go to Manhattan, there’s an air of selling out, he says. I’ve accepted that. Let’s try to get a sense of how many fair-weather Brooklynites there really are out there:
Manhattan Calling [NY Times]
Aw man! How long have I been saying THIS? I’ve been so spot on it’s f***ing scary. When the question pops (bubble? contagion? recession? flight back to Manhattan?), it’s a done f***ing deal. And the poll above applies to only 5% of you. It is the upper echelon of Brooklynites who can afford to choose (I’m talking Manhattan brownstones as purchases) and thus create a massive value void and settlement in BK price.
Park Slope/Carrol Gardens/Brooklyn Heights?
OR
Upper West Side Manhattan?!
Hmmmm….
***Bid half off peak comps***
Actually, I think that the point is that now it is often the people who WERE popular in high school and were NOT picked on that amke up the bulk of the hipster population in Billyburg and the LES, etc.
“You can see in many of their faces that they were the picked on kid at school who needed to say (f you, I want to be different.)”
Exactly – that’s the impression I always get. They were the ones that didn’t fit in in highschool, so they just made their own little group in the real world.
I went to the Bell whatever bar in Gowanus this weekend. HIPSTER CENTRAL! It was ridiculous, in a good way. I think the problem is you can create the style easily (weird glasses, bad haircut, salvation army cloths, don’t rinse, repeat.) It is kind of sad. You can see in many of their faces that they were the picked on kid at school who needed to say (f you, I want to be different.)
Sixyears, you used to be able to find it by googling “T Bird What is Up with the Hipsters” but sadly the video is no longer on line.
I think lechecal is pretty spot on in describing the “first generation hipsters” the ones who were in williamsburg first and are now 40+ and still go to the same old bars and make fun of all the “new hipsters”
Ah – analyzing hipsters is always a good way to end the day.
Mopar: do you have a link for that?
Snark: so ironic it’s not, so unironic it is.
“I just know i’ve chit-chatted with people in the neighborhood who i thought were hipsters and they turned out to be something totally opposite then what I expected, and talked to people who looked normal who were incredibly “hipsterish”
Ah! That’s a whole other thing…
I have been shocked lately to discover that certain young people (who I do think of as hipsters) listen to exactly the same music I do. I would think that the world would have moved on, I mean really.
lechacal,
you completely miss the point. People dress a certain way to put themselves into a certain group and remove themselves from others. People dont wear Bananna Republic and Izod because they find it to be completely retarded. No one is claiming any originality and never have I heard a “hipster” claim to have an original sense of style (that is unless this hipster some how thinks of themselves as some kind of clothes designer). Anyone who isnt a socialy akward crazy person is going to want to be accepted by a certain group and not accepted by others.
to think you somehow remove yourself from this is silly. You wear what you wear, listen to what you listen to and read what you read because you want to express a certain image. Like it or not.
now just like with anything else there are people who are completely crazy and think that they’re gods gift to the world.