Choosing the Suburbs Over Brooklyn
Are would-be Brooklynites flocking to the suburbs? The cover story in yesterday’s real estate section of the Times looks at how relatively cheap home prices in the suburbs are luring New Yorkers who find they can get way more bang for their buck in parts of Westchester, Connecticut and Jersey than in the city. While…
Are would-be Brooklynites flocking to the suburbs? The cover story in yesterday’s real estate section of the Times looks at how relatively cheap home prices in the suburbs are luring New Yorkers who find they can get way more bang for their buck in parts of Westchester, Connecticut and Jersey than in the city. While the article mostly focuses on the widening price gap between Manhattan and suburban properties, it notes that some people who would’ve bought in Brooklyn are also finding the suburbs cheaper:
Ludovic and Fabienne Ledein, who live and work as jewelry designers in Dumbo, visited nearly a dozen lofts in Dumbo, Red Hook and Williamsburg looking for something to buy for less than $600,000. They needed enough space to work at home and to put up friends and relatives from Europe. But what they wanted cost more than twice what they could afford…They found their answer in Westchester County, in New Rochelle. For about $600,000, they bought 1,350 square feet in the newly renovated Knickerbocker Lofts, a converted factory downtown that was built 117 years ago.
Any readers contemplating a similar move?
Cashing Out of New York City [NY Times]
Photo by uicukie.
Staten Island is where all of my garbage goes.
That’s true, 12:31, but people on this blog will deny it ad nauseum, all because it’s not NY. Staten Island is deemed more cultural to them than Chapel Hill–silly, really silly, and ignorant. I take it most of them have not been to or lived in Staten Island.
actually UNC and Duke University are world recognition.
Pig-in-a-blanket anyone? Happy New Year! Yes, I’m a loser, I’m on brownstoner right after midnight.
the South Illllllllll the dirty South
“Shit Chapel Hill and Durham have more culture than NYC now.”
I’d be embarassed to live in a place called Shit Chapel Hill. That said, no… neither of those cities has anything remotely close to NYC culturally. You sir, are a troglodyte. You live in the South, so I’m a-guessin’ you don’t have many teeth (if any at all), and you probably shoot your own dinner while chewin’ tabacky.
“you people dont understand that everyone is just leaving the northeast.”
Glad you’re gone! Stay there…
Does anyone have a problem with “suburban sprall”, deforestation and the environmental impact this is having on our planet?
I think that’s my number 1 problem with suburbs. It’s not a very “green” thing to do.
-sg.
The Carolina’s will suck once AY is built.
Yet another hackneyed thread. At least we avoided race-baiting this time.