Next Goldman M&A Target: Brooklyn Heights?
We got an email a few days ago from a regular tipster who’s always been right in the past so we’re tempted to give him the benefit of the doubt this time around. While pointing us in the direction of a recent sale on Joralemon Street, he noted that the buyer happened to be a…
We got an email a few days ago from a regular tipster who’s always been right in the past so we’re tempted to give him the benefit of the doubt this time around. While pointing us in the direction of a recent sale on Joralemon Street, he noted that the buyer happened to be a Goldman Sachs executive. This was, he claimed, part of a trend that’s seen members of the city’s most successful investment bank crossing the East River (more than usual) in recent months to buy a piece of the rock in Brooklyn Heights. Another broker we quizzed, who has several Goldman clients looking in the neighborhood at the moment concurred, said he knew of two Goldman deals that have taken place in recent weeks. The only bank where bonuses are expected to rise significantly this season, Goldman bankers and traders are certainly in the best position to snap up those $5 million-plus houses. Think there’s anything to this “trend” or has it just always been so?
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12:22 here.
Alot of the anti-manhattan sentiments here on this site are typically unfounded. To each their own. If you prefer brooklyn, fine. But it’s not perfect, which manhattan isn’t either.
There typically is an attitude of superiority amongst manhattanites with regards to brooklyn. Which i have come to realize is the fact that many are transplants and it’s been their life’s dream to live in manhattan.
Any born and raised new yorker will say manhattan wasn’t what it was, for better or worse.
I will be bringing my entire Park Slope posse to Brooklyn Flea.
You seem to be the most unpleasant poster on this thread so far.
You live in Park Slope?
If people from Park Slope aren’t high jacking threads bickering with with people from other neighborhoods they are on threads about Park Slope arguing with each other…. (Whiny PS voice)”Closer to Fifth Avenue is better,” “No, closer to the Park is better,” “Center Slope is better,” “No, North Slope is better,” “My brownstone is better.” They are just so amazingly unpleasant. God forbid they come to Brooklyn Flea when that opens. They will just make the vibe so wrong.
Right, people reading “Brownstoner” don’t care about brownstones.
12:22 – “open” or honest????
I mean look at the hostility here toward Manhattan (for “rich-douche bags”, etc) or god forbid the suburbs. I can only imagine how holier then thou these posters are to their non-Brooklyn acquaintances.
All I am saying is that (unfortunately) many,many people are a bunch of envious, limited independent thinking drones and it is essentially irrelevant if your looking at the rich, the poor, the middle class, the left, the right or the centrist.
It is sad to say but for most people, life is an extension of H.S. so instead of the “Jocks”, the “burnouts” and Geeks (or whatever variation you want) – you got the “Wall Sters”, the “Creative types” and the “Lawyers” (or whatever variations you want) – and just like in H.S. each group loves to criticize the other for being ‘losers’ and ‘a$$holes’ while all wearing the same clothes, hanging in the same areas, and having the same views.
– Truly sad
12:22 makes an excellent point. My cousin works at an investment bank and lives in Brooklyn. His nickname is “Vinnie Barbarino” because of that. AND he always gets asked questions about “life in Brooklyn” as though he were some sort of exotic species.
Rehab, keep your boring brownstone talk to yourself, or within your group of 4 or 5 posters that actually care about brownstone houses.
people who have the time to troll blogs during the work day probably just won’t get it.