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?
I actually find this thread and the ones like it very entertaining.
@12:18.
Yes but it’s more open in i-banking.
I work at a wall st i-bank and live in brooklyn. doesn’t matter what neighborhood it is (it’s a nice one, but not BH), i’m referred to as “brooklyn.”
If you don’t live in scarsdale, great neck, manhattan proper (and BH) you are looked down upon, which is bad in a place where it’s important to fit in amongst egomaniacs.
Hello, I’m special!
I think if you are really really rich it doesn’t matter where you live because you are really really rich. However the almost really really rich need to impress their colleagues with the right clothes, the right car, the right girlfriend or wife, these guys are not moving to Brooklyn unless the Feds move in and confiscate their laptop.
All it takes for a thread to bring out the tools, trolls, and douchebags is for it to reference:
Wall Street
Park Slope
or
Brooklyn Heights.
Because those are the best class-envy buttons.
Y’all have fun rehashing the same shite, there. I want to go find one of those radiators with the built-in food warmer.
Wall St is about status” —
Sorry but ‘status’ as a concern is far from limited to Wall St (although they might just be a bit more honest then you)
All the ‘my neighborhood is better then yours’; ‘People who live in the suburbs are a bunch of drones’, ‘Brooklyn’ is to sanitized, etc, etc, etc-
Its all status related – you can deny it all you want but its all variations of the same theme – all a bunch of people trying to create a persona/image. The only ones your fooling is yourself and maybe the other lemmings in your circle.
There is no difference in:
driving a 18mpg Volvo or an 18mpg SUV;
Everyone wearing khakis, polo shirt with a sweater is just as ‘drone like’ as everyone wearing hemp jeans and Che Guevara T’shirts;
assuming everything America does is evil and greedy is the same as “America – love it or leave it”
Typical park slope propaganda to make wall st types buy in their neighborhood for inflated prices so they can dump their brownstones for 5m instead of 3m
I really don’t think anyone cares if wall streeters move into their neighborhoods, 12:13. It’s just fun to talk about and SO easy to get someone’s goat at the very mention of it.
I’d rather have a teacher as a neighbor. Or practically any other profession for that matter.
It’s like wishing for an absentee landlord.
Trying to talk to brownstoner posters about wall st types is like talking to a brick wall. It’s inconceivable to them that someone wouldn’t want to live in PS/BH/CH.