Naked Apartments Shows Off Rental Stats
We mentioned the start-up Naked Apartments back in 2009 when it was trying to launch a different system to find rentals in NYC. The site published its own top five neighborhoods from around 500,000 rental searches. Brooklyn is the second most-searched borough behind Manhattan, and the top neighborhoods are Williamsburg, Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Fort…
We mentioned the start-up Naked Apartments back in 2009 when it was trying to launch a different system to find rentals in NYC. The site published its own top five neighborhoods from around 500,000 rental searches. Brooklyn is the second most-searched borough behind Manhattan, and the top neighborhoods are Williamsburg, Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, and finally Greenpoint. You can see all the stats here.
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But I AM a bit floored *that Fort Greene* came in at number 4.
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Yes, that depiction of Clinton Hill as a tiny sliver is a bit odd. Back to the cartographers!
But I AM a bit floored came in at number 4. Considering our neighborhood is quite small, I’m surprised there have been so many searches for apartments enought to rank it high up on the list. The other neighborhoods have many, many more apartments, households than our neck of the world.
And Fort Greene is generally almost entirely “low rise” (except for those newer buildings which seem to have been swept into the new nomenclature of Downtown Brooklyn…even though the Avalon building is actually named Avalon Fort Greene…but I won’t quibble). I wonder if “One Hanson” is counted as Fort Greene though…I certainly hope so. But why consider it since it’s really not a rental building, right?
So I’m very pleased we ranked at #4. Most blocks of Fort Greene seem to have owner-occupied rowhouses with one (and sometimes maybe 2) rental apartments. There’s the occasional house that’s all rental and there’s the Griffin which is not rental but I would imagine has owners who rent out their apartments from time to time.
I would LOVE to see a comparison of # of searches/total units currently available, # of searches/total apartment rental stock, # of searches/population for the neighborhood.
That would be, for me (call it boredom) interesting!
I like this old map of Clinton Hill:
http://brooklynpix.com/photoframex1.php?photo=/photo1/C/clinhill9801.jpg&key=CLINHILL%209801
It is surround ed my Bedford, East Brooklyn (today northern Bedford Stuyveant/south Williamsburg ) Ft. Greene and Prospect Heights…
interesting – they have the eastern border of Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights as the same street (presumably classon?)
That map does show what a teeny neighborhood Clinton Hill actually is—which is why I often consider Ft Greene/Clinton Hill to be one neighb.
it’s no secret that “neighborhoods” in new york are a mostly fictional concept, thanks in large part to the RE brokers.
Corcoran will be shocked to find out clinton hill is only two blocks.