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]
Anon at 5:35PM, you desperately need a course in elementary logic. No one in this interminable thread is defending any of the views your rejecting.
Why don’t you just express your concerns to the people that are bugging you instead of on an anonymous board. There are misunderstandings and honest mistakes made every day on the sidewalks of NYC. You might even make a new friend if you tried to get to know your neighbors in Park Slope or anywhere by saying hello instead of just grumbling and assuming the worst of your neighbors. I still think it’s insane that moms are being singled out here. I wonder if its because people feel that woman should have better communication skills, or be more in tune with all the concerns and/or nuances of you lot as you move through life. But get real. Not every woman out there is going to be a saint. And I think you all are pathetic for calling people out on a blog instead of trying to either suck it up and be flexible and realize that you are really not the center of the universe no matter where you live and that people might just have a) not have noticed your dog. b) might have made a bad decision that they regret. or anything really. I’m a mother and the hardest thing I’m trying to do is to teach my children flexibility and to understand that other people might just be having bad days when they take your toys away on the playground…that to think of those people as, “mean,” or whatever label you choose to use would mean you wouldn’t ever get to be friends with that person and probably my kids would be so inflexible with their demands on the playground that they wouldn’t make many friends either. So I’m sorry if this doesn’t come naturally to you either. It doesn’t totally come naturally to me. But if you work hard at chilling out I guarantee you will enjoy life and make more friends.
Well, 5:27, you’re adept enough at ignoring your own idiocy. Why the double standard?
I, the author of the 4:50 comment, really did not intend to encourage a stupid PLG=death rant. But I just couldn’t ignore the idiocy of calling gunshots “shenanagins” and then going on to complain about rude behavior.
It just had to happen – an attempt at a fresh new conversation about how to be neighborly somehow becomes the old, done again a million times over, debate about crime. SO predictable for Brownstoner dot com. Boring. I’m outta here.
So, nasty moms are a major quality of life issue, but gunshots are just “shenanigans.” Interesting perspective. But it’s true, I’d hate to live somewhere where I was constantly worried about my kids being hit by stray strollers.
Agreed, Bob, we love Park Slope and its amenities! I was just relaying some of my observations of SOME people certainly not all, in PS. Since these topics were being discussed already, here.
Park Slope and many other brownstone neighborhoods are filled with elitists liberals. Know it all’s who think they are smarter and better then everyone else.
Welcome to the neighborhood Anon. 4:08/4:24. I’m confident you’ll like it here, but don’t be too hard on Park Slope. Although services are improving here, we still have to do a lot of our shopping across the park.