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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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.
and anyone who’s grown up in or around New York City knows that the police force fails t o report most crimes reported to them, especially when the city’s economy depends so much on the perception of it being crime free.
“gangs hanging out on street corners”
I think it’s more scary that you know a gang member when you see one. How exactly did you know they were in a gang? You know about the colors, signs, handshakes, etc?
Or perhaps you were just assuming…
Yeah…I’d have to agree with the other poster. Stay in Williamsburg. Or move to Ct. You’ll be a lot safer up there.
Since when are there tons of trees in Williamsburg? Commenter 3:01 PM has basically disproven anything said by that statement. It has the least green area in the entirety of New York City.
and yes, beatings on the Northside are increasing. Why do you think you see so many cops patrolling the McCarren Park area now? It’s a stark difference from last year. It’s all about the economy, and drastic changes are going on – maybe not for the rich people, but definitely for the lower income, and Williamsburg being a famously poor area until about 2002, is still made up mostly of people who will get hit the hardest by this coming economic dump.
and yes, the young people are basically flooding out – I’m leaving this November, and all of my friends have already left earlier this year. It’s yet another lame boring neighborhood like any you’d find in Manhattan, just uglier, less convenient, and actually more expensive.
Have fun next year when you get the crap kicked out of you by a bunch of kids on their way back to the southside.
I remember when Galapagos opened. It was annoying and pretentious. I am not sorry to see it go. Likewise, I will not be sorry to see the crop of recent collge grads who’ve just been priced out move to Bushwick. Even when I was you, you annoyed me. Ciao.
Regardless of where you stand on how annoying/not annoying a neighborhood it is, Williamsburg IS convenient. The best way around the L’s overcrowding is to take the J/M/Z or G, depending on where you’re going. I’ve worked all over Manhattan and never had more than a 30-minute door-to-door commute.
The schools are fine. They’re not crowded AND They’re getting a lot of funding. Your kid will probably get more attention in them than they would at PS 321. In fact easy entrance to decent publics and preschools is probably one of Williamsburg’s little secrets.
The neighborhood is safe. If there’s a certain element preying on drunk people who stagger around looking to score at 4AM, I think that’s just natural selection at work.
The biggest issue I see is the toxicity. Just how bad is it? I hear a lot of rumors, but no one really seems to know anything for sure. It’ll be interesting to see if that is ever really addressed.
Wiliamsburg sounds like an extension of Murray Hill from your description, 3:01.
“just young renters who can’t afford the price increase are leaving maybe, but they are being replaced by older renters then and buyers.”
yup. sounds super exciting.
Williamsburg! Where young creative people leave and OLDER people move in!!!!
Said it yourself. It’s over.
You said it all here in this statement…
“it’s got the history of being a neighborhood of writers and not fashionistas and it looks like it.”
uh…since when did dressing nicely trump being a creative, intelligent human being.
oh right. when paris hilton became god.
stay in williamsburg please.
williamsburg, unsafe? what? probably depends where you are. huge neighborhood, so people may have different experiences. a lot of the northside has no ghetto or bad areas. very safe it seems to me. i walk at all hours all the time without being nervous ever. when I lived in prospect hts. there were actual murders and gangs hanging out on street corners – on st. marks and on carlton! that was scary.
as for everyone is leaving williamsburg? again, what? just young renters who can’t afford the price increase are leaving maybe, but they are being replaced by older renters then and buyers. people are coming overall.
also, as for getting to downtown, it’s so fast! I live near the L. If I take that to go downtown I switch at union sq. but, most of the time, I walk to the JMZ. It’s a quick trip. Also, walk home alot from my downtown office.
I have frequent meetings in midtown. takes 15 minutes ish. try that from park slope – at least 50-55 minutes.
park slope is going to be a crazy traffic filled nightmare when AY gets done. also, will be congested with the construction in the near future. But, at the end of the day, as it is what it is. kinda boring, not too cool, too many people in mom jeans, a lot of dark, shitty, not renovated brownstones with cramped small rooms. it’s got the history of being a neighborhood of writers and not fashionistas and it looks like it.
Sorry, #109, you cannot make those wildly inaccurate and crazy statments! i have been in brooklyn for 11 years. I lived in PS for 6 of that and thought that there was ZERO sense of community. Moved to williamsburg and have made more new friends outside of work than i ever have since college. the community, especially of parents, is super tight and strong. go to the yahoo group brooklynbabyhui. has to be one of the biggest parents groups in NYC.
also, there are tons of trees. have one out side of my front window and 3 in my backyard. but whatever….
“The ratio of reported crime to unreported is a pretty constant thing, so I highly doubt that there is some epidemic that is going unreported.”
Huh?
-sg