Outlook 2007: Longs and Shorts
Note: We’re moving this post up from yesterday to encourage more input.Welcome to the third annual installment of our market prognostications. Last year, we picked Prospect Heights and Carroll Gardens to outperform and Williamsburg to slump, which in retrospect look like pretty good calls. As for next year, our eyes will be on the areas…
Note: We’re moving this post up from yesterday to encourage more input.Welcome to the third annual installment of our market prognostications. Last year, we picked Prospect Heights and Carroll Gardens to outperform and Williamsburg to slump, which in retrospect look like pretty good calls. As for next year, our eyes will be on the areas bordering Prospect Park that have the location and housing stock on their sides but have yet to attract widespread interest from the gentrifying crowd. We’d also be front-running the newly Brooklyn-focused Landmarks Preservation Commission by looking in spots like the soon-to-be-designated Crown Heights North. On the downside, it’s hard to see how increasing supply of run-of-the-mill condos coming on line in Williamsburg won’t continue to put downward pressure on prices. We’re not as wary about the effect of Atlantic Yards on surrounding real estate as some and continue to think that Prospect Heights has a lot to offer. As has been mentioned before, quality brownstones should continue to find buyers while those in more marginal neighborhoods and lacking architectural detail will likely have a tough time. Looking back on last year’s post, we can be thankful that we got our wish of a gourmet market (sorta) in the form of Choice. Now if we could just get a friggin’ cheese shop we’d be really psyched.
Market Predictions for 2006 [Brownstoner]
orbit who cares about the brand? rude behavior is rude behavior…period. i think don juan is right. some of these ‘muthas’ just need a little taste of the old turkey neck.
Unbelievable thread. The level of straight disinfo and ignorance is too hard to ignore. Just to give one tiny smidge: there is NO SUCH THING as a double or triple Bugaboo. Bugaboos are for one kid at a time (you can attach an aftermarket thingy to the back to have a second kid stand but they occupy no more side-ways space).
Dudes, I know where you’re coming from. When I made my first tour of duty in Bklyn back in the late 80s, I was fleein the LES and I freaked at the stroller invasion. But after the first missus and I split, I wound up on the UWS, and now that I’m once again back in the B, you gotta know that PS moms are way way way easier than the ones on the UWS who think nada of having the nanny and a helpter drag TWO Bugaboos to the park.
But so tfw. Are y’all so terrified of breeders encroaching on your turf that you can’t see it’s just parents acting protectively about their kids? Y’all need to grow up.
And get yr facts straight.
What really bothers 5:58 is not that we’re absorbed with ourselves but that we’re not absorbed with her brats.
You know what’s sickening? How much park slope mommies love the cack. They can’t get enough of it. A lot of back door mommies in park slope; must have to do with their being uptight all the time.
LESBIANS!
After reading this board, I feel sad for society. The self-absorbtion of most of you is sickening.
This whole thread just reminds me of The Onion’s “We Must Preserve The Earth’s Dwindling Resources For My Five Children” article.
Here’s a fun one from yesterday: At the Chip Shop on 5th ave., Mommy and Daddy PLAYING with little Sweetiekins in the restaurant for a good 15-20 minutes after they’d paid and the plates had been cleared away. Sweetiekins jumped on empty chairs & benches (with Mommy & Daddy’s encouragement), threw toys on the floor, shrieked, etc. Fun for everyone!
That’s right, in case you missed it, everyplace in PS is a freakin’ playground.
I like those buga boos because they can flip the hood shut so their kids can’t see us in action when i’m getting some on my lunch break. Park slope mommies are mad horny. self interested and pushy, but mad horny. I’ve probably nailed 6 of them in the last three months.