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]
guess i’m just more of a glass half full kinda guy compared to most of you all. i live in park slope, come into contact with many moms…live in a building full of them. i don’t automatically judge them as disrespectful or unkind on the basis of what i’ve heard here. i’ve had nothing but pleasant interactions with almost all of them, and wanted to share that side as well. just like i don’t know what happened exactly in these instances, you i’m guessing don’t know what it’s like to be a mother raising kids in a big city. nor do i really, but i do have compassion for others and try to look on the brighter side. so what if every mom isn’t ms. cleaver walking down the street…i could say the same thing for yupster girls in their 20’s in this city. feel free to criticize away…i guess i just don’t understand how one group can be so singled out in such a fashion. and you are doing a disservice to your own neighborhood by continuing the stereotype. maybe we’d get a more diverse crowd living in the hood, if you all weren’t on here complaining about how awful all the moms in park slope are. there are people who read this post who are newcomers to our neighborhood and those who might be interested in living here, and you are doing them no favors by continuing such stereotypes.
3:01, I think he’s obviously stereotyping us 🙂
I’d also like to know why it isn’t stereotyping when 1:25 accuses moms on the Upper East side, West Village and Carroll Gardens of rudeness.
How do you know what kind of criticism is warranted by the examples of rudeness described in this thread? Were you present when the woman ran her baby carriage into the dog? Do you know how easy it was for her to see the dog, or how hard she pushed it, or how badly it hurt the dog? We know you think there’s some kind of stereotyping going on here. You’re only too eager to throw that accusation around. However, since you weren’t present on any of these occasions, I’d like to know what justifies YOUR criticism of so many of the people who’ve contributed to this thread.
i do agree that rude behavior is a basis for criticism. i also believe that the comment “but a woman doesn’t become a saint simply because some guy blows his choad between her legs” is far more disrespectful and unkind than anything i’ve heard said about ps moms thus far. talking on a cell phone, trying to get by narrow sidwalks, perhaps accidentally running into a small dog (which i have done on occassion by accident) does not warrant the kind if criticism and child-like behavior that has been posted on here. i think it’s a case of stereotypes, which as a gay man, i usually find to be quite disrespectful and unkind.
May I ask you a question, 2:45PM?
Under what circumstances do you think it is legitimate to criticize someone?
2:45, the only women who’ve been discussed here, at least thus far, are moms in PS. I don’t see how criticizing them specifically translates into a hatred or disrespect for all women. I might be tempted to think that misogyny was at work here if people were criticizing PS moms for no reason, but the reason for the criticism seems to be rude behavior, and rude behavior is a legitimate basis for criticism, is it not?
i am poster 1:25 and i venture to guess that many of you posting on here are men…i am as well. and i find it absolutely amazing how you can be so lacking in respect for women. i never said anyone was a saint. i have seen very little on this thread that is respectful towards women (ESPECIALLY YOU 2:30) for your blowing choad comment. why on god’s green earth should a mother in park slope be respectful and kind to someone like you???? or most of you other people who clearly must project their disgust for women in person on the streets of park slope. this is quite a hypocritical bunch, if you ask me.
Give us a break people. This whole romanticization of motherhood is so overworked. The idea that someone is immune to criticism simply because they have one or more kids is ridiculous.
What about fathers? Are they also incapable of rudeness, or is this only true of mothers?