The Next New Brooklyn
We’ve been told Philadelphia is the new Brooklyn, or Brooklyn is the new Manhattan, and sometimes we’ve been told that Manhattan is the new Brooklyn. New York Magazine reprised the latter argument. Prices are falling in brownstone Brooklyn, they say —″Statistics from Streeteasy.com show 38 percent of townhouses suffering price cuts in recent months, averaging…
We’ve been told Philadelphia is the new Brooklyn, or Brooklyn is the new Manhattan, and sometimes we’ve been told that Manhattan is the new Brooklyn. New York Magazine reprised the latter argument. Prices are falling in brownstone Brooklyn, they say —″Statistics from Streeteasy.com show 38 percent of townhouses suffering price cuts in recent months, averaging an 11 percent drop”—and the market is softening in Manhattan. Given the choice between similar prices in two boroughs, apparently some people are saying, “I’ll take Manhattan”—not that we know any of them. Not to worry. Even if fewer Manhattanites have been scouring the borough for deals, all’s well here. “Brooklyn now has its own momentum,” they report. “There are far more pro-Brooklyn partisans than there used to be.” Anybody out there witnessed this move-to-Manhattan phenomenon?
Manhattan: The New Brooklyn? [New York Mag]
View of Downtown Manhattan. Photo by drunkcat.
I choose not to post my real name, nor have I ever posted my info in the forum. All one needs to do is google Adam Dahill and his info is everywhere. If he wanted his info kept confidential, he would have done so. I did not sign up to have my info broadcast.
I think knowing that he’s a mortgage broker in New Jersey is pertinent to his interest in that market.
Personally I find the following statement much less gentlemanly, but that’s just me:
“If you think Jersey City is better than Brooklyn then I applaud the demented world you live in. Yes, Bed Stuy over Jersey City. Have you seen Bed Stuy ever??”
And I’ve been to both Jersey City and Bed Stuy, and I’d choose Jersey City in a heartbeat. Does that make me demented??
Afraid is not the word I’d use. I just think, Why go there?
Just doesn’t seem like the gentlemanly/right thing to do.
But that’s me.
11217..I don’t post mine because there’s no need to. And, I like to have a little fun with people now and then and who knows what kind of psychos are out there. Not that long ago about 5 of us posters actually met up for drinks. It took a long time before any of us were comfortable with exchanging emails and then meeting up. It was a trip.
11217..go ahead and post your details then. “He’s not afraid so why are you?”
“As I reported in a recent post, I saw this film about one year ago in a theater. It was shot on location in NYC in 1970.”
I remember it quite clearly, and you’re right. Today’s recently arrived have no idea how screwed things were back then. Trains and streets were dirtier. Places like Central Park, Bryant Park and Prospect Park were to be avoided, unless you were looking to score drugs or sex. Crime was much more prevalent, and police were hard to come by. In many ways, things have improved immeasurably since those days.
Anyone who signs up with their real name is subject to someone looking them up, btw.
He’s not afraid so why are you?
Adam posted that himself on the Forum. That’s where I got it from.
I was simply showing that he has nothing to hide. He likes Jersey City, and even put up his contact info. on Brownstoner. He doesn’t hide who he is. Gotta respect that.
ENY…despite our little “dust up” yesterday (i can’t even remember what it was actually about) I like your posts and reminisciences (sp) about Brooklyn.
11217, Low Blow.
If you understood how to read you would understand. I said you sound like a Manhattanite who knocks Brooklyn, but since you are already in Brooklyn you knock Jersey City. And once again you decide to pick a fight behind an alias calling me a fool. I’m not going to stoop to your level and get into an fight over a internet message board. You picked the fight with me remember. I just try to provide my opinion and my reasoning.
And yes I have seen Bed Stuy plenty of times, I have family all over Brooklyn, my brother lives in Bed Stuy as well as a few friends and yes I would pick Downtown Jersey City over Bed Stuy. Restaurants, parks, bars, grocery stores, the waterfront, less projects, etc..
Ten years ago people would roll their eyes if you said you were moving to Brooklyn, today it’s the in thing to do. Why do you insist on treating people like me the same way.
Take a look sometime, it’s not the black hole a lot of people think it is. It’s actually quite nice.