Open House Picks
Windsor Terrace 169 Windsor Place Brooklyn Properties Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,225,000 GMAP P*Shark Columbia Waterfront 22 Carroll Street Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2-4 $1,195,000 GMAP P*Shark Cobble Hill 14 Warren Place Brooklyn Heights RE Sat 2-5, Sun 2-5 $1,125,000 GMAP P*Shark BayRidge 82 72nd Street Aguayo & Huebener Sunday 1-3 $969,000 GMAP P*Shark
Windsor Terrace
169 Windsor Place
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,225,000
GMAP P*Shark
Columbia Waterfront
22 Carroll Street
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2-4
$1,195,000
GMAP P*Shark
Cobble Hill
14 Warren Place
Brooklyn Heights RE
Sat 2-5, Sun 2-5
$1,125,000
GMAP P*Shark
BayRidge
82 72nd Street
Aguayo & Huebener
Sunday 1-3
$969,000
GMAP P*Shark
Then I’m sorry that things are changing in a way that is not to your liking, I’m sorry that you cannot stop the fact that the neighborhood will change. I’m sorry that you are so attached to the pot holes on Van Brundt street that it hurts you to think about a smooth resurfaced Van Brundt. I’m sorry that you think your new neighbors don’t like the neighborhood the way it is now. I’m sorry that you find your new neighbors to be horrible people who only moved here to make a buck. I’m sorry that you decided to become a lawyer and that you have so much anger in you.
I think the person who has disdain for the neighborhood and the people who live in it is you.
Clown at 3:43p,
Yes, I did edit incorrectly when putting in the book and the movie titles.
Still doesn’t change the fact that you are saying that there was no shipping or industry there before American Stevedoring came in 20 years ago, and that there has not been shipping and manufacturing industry dominant here for the last 200+ years.
To me, that’s a far more embarrassing mistake.
Priced out? Another joke.
I own a house here. Have for 19 years (after initially renting here for a few years after law school).
And I won’t even get into how much it has multiplied since I bought, as I am not planning on moving.
I’m a lawyer in midtown, so I hardly have any issues about being able to afford anything. I chose to live here because of family in the area.
You, on the other hand, have moved here betting on things changing drastically (in spite of the nature of the machines present).
So you may have your tiny little condo that you over-leveraged your petty salary to buy (and your condo has only gone up 20% in last 2 years, max. fwiw) and proceed onward with your grand hubris for changing what’s always been an industrial, manufacturing and shipping neighborhood.
And in the meantime, if you like, I will frame your “inner petulant child” phrase and hang it in my office, so I may look with fondness upon it to remember the rude awakening coming for you some day when all your bets and dreams are for naught, and the rest of us here have always been quite happy in the interim.
You clearly have disdain for the neighborhood as it stands, so I hardly thing this conversation is worth continuing.
Good day.
You really should get your facts straight before you start ranting.
First of all the name of the Aurther Miller play is ” A View From the Bridge”
Second of all if you bother doing a little research you can learn for yourself when the American Stevedoring Shipping Terminal was built. I promise you it was not 200 years ago.
If you wanted to bother to try preserve something that was 200 years old you should have tried to stop Ikea from filling in the dry dock for their F*&%ing parking lot.
Yeah, I’m devastated 2:46 my property has only doubled in value since I bought it. What have I done?!!
I’m sorry that your art is not selling and that you and your inner petulant child are being priced out of the neighborhood.
Oh, this is rich.
So are you actually claiming that the entire area has not been industrial and working waterfront for the last, oh…200+ years?
Better tell Arthur Miller that his 1950s classic “A View From The Waterfront” is all wrong, that there was no shipping and docks there. And that little nothing of a film “On The Waterfront,” too.
Wow. 2:48pm was a joke, right?
For all intents and purposes, this entire area has *always* been a working waterfront and industrial/manufacturing businesses.
But no, I guess that all just started in the 1970s, my apologies.
So, seriously, did you really mean to post that?
Doesn’t sound like Port Authority is too keen on signing a long term lease with American Stevedoring…
“A spokesman told The Post [Port Authority] won’t give any lease extensions and that American Stevedoring can remain as holdover tenants…”
Hmmm. Wonder what that means. I think you are underestimating the City if you think they have given up on getting rid of the container port.
And by the way, the container port has only been there since the 70’s. Hardly, “long before anyone in the neighborhood was alive.”
Don’t kid yourself. This neighborhood is still very much in transition.
Yuppie noob,
Let me guess…
You bought something on Tiffany Place a year or so ago, and you are hoping (desperately) that the neighborhood will change like you’d hoped for and were expecting when you signed.
Ever think there was a reason why the folks who sold to you sold?
Hah, suckers.
Yeah, gentrification is on your side overall for houses and apt buildings and other largely residential areas, but for anything as heavily regulated/controlled as a working waterfront lands (and not just idle waterfront like Revere, Ikea etc), you’ve got one long, long, long wait ahead of you.
The pendulum almost swung your way, but heavily entrenched interests killed the Imlay St. luxury condos and hotel project, re-affirmed majority industrial /manufacturing zoning in the larger overall area (last year…), and now Mayor’s EDC has just changed hands and reversed position, and a new long-term lease is in the works.
In the meantime other neighborhoods (heh, nearly ALL) will have proven a much better investment return in a much shorter time, without these well-funded, well-connected impediments to your plan for that neighborhood.
Hah, whomever sold to you must have been laughing all the way to the bank with your check.
In the meantime, those of us who have lived here over the long-term, having heard banter of this and other projects for *decades* like capping over the BQE trench to build a park or other homes etc, will continue to appreciate or neighborhood for all it is, and not be so gullible and naive to think that the Brooklyn and NYC political and industrial machines are so easily moved.
My over/under for what you propose:
30 years at soonest, after this next long-term lease for shipping operations has expired, and after several years of additionally blistering debate.
Hope you’re faith in gentrification and your investment can weather that.
Ha.
haven’t you heard, 1:58, the bubble is bursting, the sky is falling, prices are tanking??
gosh, if you’d listen to the way some on here rant about it, you should know that it must have been a typo! bay ridge houses are going for 90,000K these days!!
wait a little longer!!! in another month, you’ll be able to pick up a 25 footer in park slope for 50K!!!!!!!!