Market Slump? Not At The Mill Building
If the Brooklyn market is heading into a slump, one buyer at Williamsburg’s Mill Building didn’t get the memo. Earlier this month, someone stepped up to the plate to pay a cool $2 million for a 2,173-square-foot unit on the sixth floor of the building at 85 North 3rd Street. (The apartment does have a…
If the Brooklyn market is heading into a slump, one buyer at Williamsburg’s Mill Building didn’t get the memo. Earlier this month, someone stepped up to the plate to pay a cool $2 million for a 2,173-square-foot unit on the sixth floor of the building at 85 North 3rd Street. (The apartment does have a terrace too.) The sponsor had held this unit as well as a smaller one next to it (#606) until a couple of weeks ago. Both were snapped up at asking price in a matter of days. This happens to be one of our favorite condo buildings in Williamsburg, so we’re sure it’s a sweet pad, but $920 a foot? Yowza. How’s that common roof deck coming along, anyway?
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4:04,
Come on, both ‘hoods are good. I prefer Williamsburg over PS and have been to both (was in PS last weekend actually.)
And seriously, are you really claiming that any restaurant in PS is better than… oh… Peter Luger? How about Aurora (which just opened a SoHo branch?) Or is there any restaurant with the vibe of a MyMoon or Sea? Or any place as well received this year in the food press as Fette Sau? I mean, come on. Seriously. The restaurant scene in Williamsburg is SCARY strong.
Not to mention the clothing/boutique store scene, and the various other amenities on Bedford and Grand and North 6th.
And I don’t get the Williamsburg soul-less comments. YOU GUYS HAVE A BARNES AND NOBLE!!! How much more soul-less can you get!?
And finally, I find it funny that people are bitching about it being more dangerous and more expensive at the same time? Seriously, if you’re moving out of Williamsburg because it’s too dangerous+expensive+played out, where are you going? Bushwick? Yea, cause that’s much safer.
Don’t think anyone is saying that, 4:04.
I think what they are saying is that Williamsburg has become so ridiculously expensive (for what it is especially) that the people who made it what it is no longer can afford or simply don’t want to live there anymore.
That’s the point.
Sounds like you equate “better” with soul-less.
I was making fun of one of your fellow Burg inhabitants (3:01) who made the fashionista comment, 3:57.
Take it up with him/her. I was poking fun.
And I don’t agree about the amenities. Nothing much on Bedford I care for.
Nothing I can’t find a few stops away in Manhattan, anyway.
You clearly haven’t been to PS lately. I’d argue that Al Di La, Blue Ribbon and Blue Ribbon Sushi, Moim and Franny’s are better than any restaurant options Williamsburg has to offer.
Guess it takes more than some 2nd rate Thai to get me through most days.
“and yes, crime is going up. why else would the cops be -everywhere – in the neighborhood now? Everyone who lives here knows things are starting to get bad. I get pushed around now, and all my friends know at least one person who’s been jumped recently.”
So the cops are suppressing the truth. I see.
That flies in the face of classic gentrification theories. As more and more of the neighborhood gets “fixed up” crime typically gets pushed out. The 90th Precint stats seem to bear that out. If there were only 14 more robberies commmitted, I can kind see the Willy Sutton theory at work. Criminals will go were the money is and with more street traffic in that can make sense. But still it is no epidemic.
I just find all the negative comments ammusing. I was at Galapagos when it opened and have been going out to Williams burg for years before that. The neighborhood has done nothing but improve and has exploded since the zoning change. Anyone that denies this or cannot see it, I am sorry to say has some other agenda.
Oh, and therefore I am a fashionista? Because I do live in Williamsburg?
It’s such a relief to know black stretch pants from Target have made a comeback. Phew. Sometimes I worry?
I’m going to run out and walk down Bedford Ave in them right this very second!
Agree, the amenities are great here. Better than Park Slope and in a more concentrated strip.
I’ve never lived in Williamsburg. Nor would I.
I’m not a fashionista.
Well then 3:22, it’s a good thing you’re leaving the neighborhood too!
Anyone who says Galapagos (or any other high quality artistic venue) leaving the neighborhood is a good thing, I lose interest in everything else they have to say.
what the hell does milwaukee have to do with Williamsburg? Milwaukee is not full of new buildings. Had relatives there until recently and been a few times in the last couple of years. Milwaukee has 1800’s era homes and buildings except for the modern office buildings. really, people say the stupidest shit here.
also the comments about the amenities in williamburg are bizarre. the amenities are terrific. Great food shopping: Tops, Sunac, Millenium. The restaurants and shops are really good.
I like living in Williamsburg, don’t care where others want to live, but when people are shouting their opinions as facts, gets annoying…