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]
You can get a Graco double stroller for a fraction of the price of a Bugaboo (double or single)…
Victorian Flatbush, including Brooklyn College Area (South Midwood)- long.
New Target/Barnes and Noble scheduled to open at Flatbush Junction this year. Although some may shake their heads, this is a great economic boost for the area, and the many families (all demographics) who live here will shop there. No more shlepping to the Atlantic Center, avoiding the whole AY traffic congestion to follow.
It should be noted,however, that Victorian Flatbush does not offer many buldings with multiple units. You have to be able to afford and maintain a single family home to buy here. You can’t buy a brownstone and rent out a unit to defray your mortgage. This limits the pool of potential buyers somewhat.
I just copped some spinnin 22’s for my bug… you know you be hatin’
1. There are just as many inconsiderate pedestrians without kids as inconsiderate pedestrians with kids. I’m constantly detouring into the street around groups of friends whose conversation is too important to interrupt by stepping aside to let me pass.
Single jerks become jerks with kids and there are plenty of both. But single jerks are not resented as a symbol of a culture that gives EVERYTHING to people with kids and treats childless like SECOND CLASS CITIZENS and its NOT FAIR NOT FAIR NOT FAIR and when will my mom stop ASKING ME FOR GRANDCHILDREN and go away breeders I’m SICK OF YOU!
2. Bugaboo, like many stroller manufacturers, makes single and double strollers. I suspect the people using “bugaboo” as a synonym for “double stroller” derive their whole knowledge of child-rearing from reading Gawker and New York magazine trend articles.
And 12:43 is right. The point people are making is it’s the attitude not the stroller. That said, the big expensive strollers are status symbols. I have to hold to that.
Bugaboos cost $900. Of course it’s a status symbol, nobody say otherwise. As for the giant strollers, 99% of the time I see ONE child in them, not two, in Park Slope. Give us a break.
No one has argued that people buy “bugaboos” because they’re status symbols. Did you even read the preceding posts? I’m sure people buy their “bugaboos” because they need them to transport multiple children, and that’s fine; but it is NO excuse to treat other people (e.g., pedestrians) like garbage. Other people have the right to walk down the sidewalk without being treated like human refuse. The fact that one half of my DNA doesn’t come from you does not make me a second class citizen. Sorry.
“What you see in Park Slope is an aberration, a weird, bourgeois, neurotic version of motherhood.”
What you see in Park Slope is a bunch of whiny singles in a crowded neighborhood who hate the suburbs and yet resent parents for not moving to the suburbs the instant they had kids.
Someone care to offer a theory WHY women push double-wide baby carriages? You think it’s a status symbol? That they’re so roomy and capacious that one simply MUST have one even if they inconvenience others? Newsflash: the things are a pain in the ass to push, and you would only have one if you had two very young children, and then with great regrets. Maybe you have more twins in a neighborhood with more older parents (and thus more fertility treatments), but seriously, they’re not actually like SUVs: people don’t just get them because they think they look cool and make life convenient for themselves.
Enough with the bs woman hating on this board. I’m sick of it. Of course your mothers were all madonnas and today’s moms are just in your way while you are picking up your lattes. Fathers btw, don’t factor in to these posts, funny that. Guess your dads weren’t all that and you don’t see any dads slowing you down over at Starbucks folks.