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 heard Goldman was planning to build a building on 4th Ave in Park Slope, just down from Hotel Le Bleu. That should be an easy communite, just walk down 5th Street.
12:01. Welcome, first-time poster to brownstoner.
James Grant is an author of a journal that costs $850 per year that EVERYONE subsribes to. He also runs conferences that are more than 1k per person. He also runs a small, private fund. He’s about as uber-rich as you get.
He doesn’t live in Clinton HIll, that’s true. He lives in BH which is probably why he was spotted there.
You’ve clearly never seen Secretary then, 12:03.
She is more of a celebrity than most celebrities are.
One of the finest actresses around.
Wall street is all about status. From the clothes you wear, and especially where you live.
Park slope doesn’t have the same reputation as BH. Park slope is nice, but it’s no BH
she’s going to tell all her celebrity friends to move there.
Oh my gosh I just picked myself up from the floor. Thanks, that’s the best laugh I have had all week.
“celebrities invade Park Slope” Strollers bumped by limos, whole houses turned into walk-in closets, pools flood subways, Prospet Park get valet parking.
Maggie Gyllenhall isnt a Wall St executive and she is barely a celebrity
This sounds crazy but as I came out of CVS on Court Street on Saturday afternoon, a man passed (walking with another parka-ed person) and I looked because he was so fmailiar – someone in my building? a neighbor? I swear it was Jim Cramer — or his twin! UGH!!! Pease no — We loved the neighborhood before you needed millions to live here!
Man, is Peter Sarsgaard hot or what? That Maggie is one lucky chick.