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]
People, people, people.
This is crazy. We are lucky to live in one of the greatest cities of the world, and many of us live in perhaps one of the most beautiful neighborhoods of a pretty amazing borough. (park slope)
Please – get a grip. Why are we fighting and arguing about such unimportant stuff – strollers and “self-centered moms” and such?
Take a step back and realize how lucky most of us are to be living here, and affording the means and time to be on this blog.
The goal in life is to be happy and to be thankful for what we have. Maybe we need to step back and wake up to what that means!
Here’s wishing tolerance, success, and prosperity for you and yours in 2007!
10:08 a.m.: I agree that the mom’s behavior was rude, but, I’m sorry, if you were walking your dog in such a way that you left no room to pass, you were being rude too. People constantly complain about the room strollers take up on the sidewalks–well, that goes for doggies too.
Hmmm. I’m confused now. I thought people were simply complaining that PS mothers are often rude. I didn’t realize that someone said they were intolerable. Where was this said?
The newbie gentrifciation of Brooklyn is complete when our the greatest fear is of being rundown by a yuppie mother and her bugaboo stroller.
I remember when I used to sprint home from the subway at night to avoid getting mugged and when when my car was broken into seemingly every night.
In the relative scheme of things, the bugaboo wileding moms seem very tolerable.
10:08, that really stinks. To be rude to people is bad enough, but to risk hurting a small animal is really going over the line. I hope you enjoyed New Year’s Eve in spite of this mutha.
Anyone else hear New Years gun shots or semi-automatic fire after the ball dropped?
I work in Park Slope and I have no idea what you people are talking about. There are rude people everywhere. I’ve never been insulted by a Park Slope mom. I think you are just tripping.
KENSINGTON…Ocean Parkway Baby Love it!
11:38,
Yeah, you can tell they are gunshots if you feel pain and start bleeding right after the sound of the “pop.”