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]
Nobody should believe only those who are not mothers have had these observations about PS Moms by the way. I’ve heard this same complaint by women who are mothers, and even read an essay about it in New York Magazine written by a mother who lives in Park Slope. About how competitive she found fellow PS Moms to be, when interacting with them at the playground. Did anyone remember seeing that? Maybe a year or so ago? Nobody is just making this stuff up just now. It’s been a pretty much accepted characteristic of the PS neighborhood for a while now, all over NYC. I didn’t even know there was any question or debate about it.
all of those posts are clearly from one very very bored and lonely person
Huh? What are you talking about??
Damn! The way you all sound…
Long: Osh Kosh & Peoria (No bugaboos, PS Moms, gunshots or fire crackers!)
No diversity, B’way plays, Off B’way plays, great eats etc..
Short: Brooklyn (Bugaboos, PS Moms, gunshots, firecrackers, diversity, great eats, etc..
Who is throwing the tantrum? Who is defending the stereotype? Why don’t you explain to us what your gender is, what your race is, what type of relationship you are in, if any, where you live and what kind of job you have and I am sure any number of people on this board would be happy to provide you with an obnoxious stereotype of one of the groups you could be identified with. Stereotyping isn’t a science. It’s an insult.
Stereotyping is pathetic. Look at the posts. They weren’t talking about one incident, or some incidents. A couple of posts indicated that nice/not hostile Park Slope mothers were the exception. I don’t live in Park Slope. I think it’s really shallow to fall in to this type of stereotyping. It wouldn’t be defended on here if we were talking about other races, genders or classes of people. What next, Asian-American drivers? African American shop clerks? Come on recognize this for what it is. Classist, sexist and childish.
5:35, you are right and the latter are wrong.
6:22, all of the posts I’ve read have focused on rude behavior by PS mothers on sidewalks. No one has said that all PS mothers are guilty of such rudeness. Many PS mothers are no doubt delightful people, and no one has claimed otherwise. So, I don’t know what your beef is.
I disagree. Why are they choosing this forum to bash moms in Park Slope who are struggling with strollers on busy sidewalks?