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.
“Manhattan is the new Brooklyn”
Absurd at best.
gkw- amazing energy or frenetic energy? There are loads of people in Brooklyn who contribute more to that Manhattan buzz than you think. The energy in Brooklyn is directed differently, I think. Not so much newer, bigger, faster, trendier!!! There’s a depth to the energy in Brooklyn I really don’t find in Manhattan. Gads- I’m sounding like a New Age guru type -so not me.
I left Manhattan and I have no desire to return. I moved to Jersey City and I love it. I can afford Manhattan but I get so much more for my money over the water. It’s quiter and I don’t have a million people outside my place 24-7. Everything is cheaper, gas, food, beer and my income taxes are lower. I’m a 5 boroughs guy my entire life so it was hard for me to leave but it was the best decision I’ve made in a long time. My place would have cost double in BK and triple in the city.
Flame away Jersey Phobes.
i disagree- I have complained many times about the level of dialogue on brownstoner and if you look at my initial post, I talked about something easily provable- his history of posts that attack. Which I know from personal experience. So I simply stated fact.
And considering the level so many of the threads on brownstoner descend to, it’s a hoot to be taken to task for the very thing so many posters here have made an art of.
hear hear houseowax – I think once you have children and are kind of immobilized, brooklyn can feel constricting. On the other hand, once the children get older, the neighborhood/community feel is lovely for them and very unique in this country where people are increasingly isolated. Both boroughs have strengths, but I don’t think bkln will ever have the amazing energy Manhattan does – one big reason is that it’s populated to such a huge degree by young families – people who hardly lead the charge in generating exciting energy! On the other hand, that amazing energy can be pretty exhausting and the lack of it in Brooklyn is what constitutes its charm. (p.s., I grew up in Manhattan and moved to Wburg in 96 and CG in 2000).
Looks like we now know where some of the more asinine guest comments were coming from pre-mandatory registration.
11217,
Bwahahahahaha! I nearly be fallin’ out of my seat wit laughter, yo! I be way too funny in my writing skillz. To straddle the ghetto & the yuppies with one fell swoop of the pen is mad talent. You just be jealous, son. So many talents, yet so lil’ time.
Money, money, money…is that all you people think about?
Oh and McD, here are some other posts from your friend PropJoe. I take it back, he sounds SOOOOO SMART!!!
“Puffy Daddy is Ghetto too. He be nuthin’ but a punk ass bitch. And who be these 2 successful bands? I be doubtin’ any truth to ‘dat. What is Farnzworth be up to?”
“Making the band is Ghetto.”
“Billyburgh is over, son. Downtown, Boerum Hill & Forte Greene is where it be at. Housing prices continue to be going gangbustarhymes in those ‘hoods. I know. I live in Forte Green near the Park”
“Place is very nice but location is mad ghetto. Murders and beatings all the time in Bed Stuy. Not a safe hood. I’d say $350k for the 750 sq ft place and $425k for the 971 sq ft and even those prices are pushing it. This ain’t Clinton Hill folks.”
I feel a Nobel Prize for Literature coming on!!