Wanna Save Money? Leave Brooklyn For Manhattan
The NY Daily News reports today that some Brooklyn neighborhoods are now more expensive than those in Manhattan (the article looks at neighborhoods below 90th Street, traditionally the pricier part of the island). “The median rental prices in DUMBO, Park Slope and Fort Greene were higher than those in the East Village, Lower East Side,…
The NY Daily News reports today that some Brooklyn neighborhoods are now more expensive than those in Manhattan (the article looks at neighborhoods below 90th Street, traditionally the pricier part of the island). “The median rental prices in DUMBO, Park Slope and Fort Greene were higher than those in the East Village, Lower East Side, Upper East Side, Midtown East and Murray Hill,” they write. Median sales in Fulton Ferry and DUMBO rose above Midtown East, East Village, Murray Hill and the Lower East Side, too. The apartments they looked at were of comparable size, they say. Brooklyn Heights one-bedrooms run a median rental of $2,180, while it’s $1,950 on the Upper East Side and $2,085 on the Lower East Side. What does this mean about our fair borough? “Brooklyn’s hot now, and your pricey rent just proves it.”
Brooklyn Neighborhoods and Homes Outpace Manhattan [NY Daily News]
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Very late on commenting but as a transplant from Chicago to New York almost 17 years ago, you couldn’t pay me to live in Manhattan. I enjoy walking out of my door and seeing trees and grass and hearing birds chirp. Manhattan is a concrete jungle while Brooklyn has a real neighborhood feel. When I moved to New York, my plan was to live in Brooklyn. Brooklyn was, is and will always be hot.
i dislike the upper west side, it is beautiful, but it is jammed-packed with upper west siders (blech!) I like carnegie hill. quiet, classy, interesting. a big apartment on a high floor in the east 90’s? heaven!
I’d move to the UWS in a heartbeat, just for the proximity to Lincoln Center. Leaving the opera at 11:30 or midnight, then having a 45-minute subway ride to Brooklyn that turns into an hour or more due to ‘necessary track work’ is a real drag when you have to get up for work the next morning.
For people with different taste in entertainment, this wouldn’t matter.
Having lived for years on UWS, and now for years in Brooklyn, I can definitely say it’s for me a generational thing. I liked the energy, never sleeping vibe when I was younger–but the connectedness/interesting but more laid back Brooklyn atmosphere is more my taste now. But it IS comparing apples and oranges you know….
I feel like you can sleep better at night in Brooklyn the energy is up way too high in Manhattan. Brooklyn is great but it goes to sleep at a certain time. Manhattan is 24/7.
UWS – eh, never liked the UWS but I can understand it’s appeal
WV – Maybe if they close up the PATH station on Christopher Street.
No ones saying there aren’t beautiful neighborhoods in manhattan, but it seems the people who would “never move back to manhattan” prefer Brooklyn’s more laid back, quiet atmosphere.
A guest – what about a beautiful apartment on the Upper West Side, near Riverside or Central park? Or perhaps in the Village? Surely one can find a nice apt for 10million in those areas!
FSRG – I’m going to have to agree with 11217 on this one. If you had 10 million dollars where would YOU live in Manhattan?
it’s a preference issue and nothing more. any other explication and assumptions run wild…