Philly Launches; Brooklyn Redesigned
Big news around Brownstoner HQ: After many months of planning, Brownstoner Philadelphia launches this morning. With its incredible architectural history and passionate residents, Philly has the two key ingredients for a successful Brownstoner community. With Gabby Warshawer, a three-year veteran of Brownstoner Brooklyn, at the helm and a handful of local contributors in place, we…
Big news around Brownstoner HQ: After many months of planning, Brownstoner Philadelphia launches this morning. With its incredible architectural history and passionate residents, Philly has the two key ingredients for a successful Brownstoner community. With Gabby Warshawer, a three-year veteran of Brownstoner Brooklyn, at the helm and a handful of local contributors in place, we hope to do exciting things in the City of Brotherly Love. We urge you to check out the site and, please, take a minute to shoot an email to your friends and family in the area.
In related news, you may notice that things look a little different around here. With the help of the crack team at Six Apart, we’re pleased to debut an updated look for Brownstoner. Not too much has changed: The headlines are a little bigger, we’ve added some shortcuts for spreading stories via Twitter and Facebook, and we’ve tried to bring the neighborhood archives into greater prominence.
In the future, we hope to start having some overlap between the Philly and Brooklyn sites where appropriate. Most importantly, we plan to introduce a shared Forum, where posts that are not geographically specific can share feedback. At some point, the renovation blogs may be co-mingled too.
We look forward to your feedback on both sites. Please kick the tires and let us know if you see any problems. Thanks for playing.
Mr. B
tybur6–philly wouldn’t be the worst call given what your goals in re real estate are…
yeah seeing those philly prices just makes it even more evident how absurdly and ridiculously overpriced nyc is.
*rob*
“I would never want to see direct reply to comments.”
And is the idea of being down-rankable scary too? 😉
HOTD – 1700sf row house with large backyard for $165,000. Interior is in good condition. Near subway – probaby 4 minute ride to downtown.
I’m moving!
I would never want to see direct reply to comments.
Maybe we can set up a dedicated section for “oh my god – Brownstones are so much cheaper in Philly” comments so that every thread discussion from now on doesn’t end up there.
Congratulations! If I had to leave Brooklyn, I’d move to Philadelphia, so I’ll enjoy following it virtually.
Nice coverage of the Alexander school district thing. I didn’t realize it had been around for ten years. Philly real estate has always made me weep, for what we could afford if we lived there, not here. Great to have a site up to allow me to do that daily!!
I will, however, comfort myself with memories of the horrible summers, crime, weepy quakers and lack of jobs in the city of brotherly love. That’ll help keep us in BK, somewhat.
Future improvement might be a way to reply directly to a comment, and also rank up/down comments for easier spotting of good stuff….engadget.com does both of these, and pretty useful.