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]
Photo by raph.v.
Remember when Manhattan was overrun with Gap stores, then Starbucks, then Duane Reades, then Banks. Nothing more than a Mall below 96th st.
Fratboy? Come on. There is nothing fratboyish about the Village or any parts of Manhattan with the possible exception of some steakhead nabes.
There may be an annoying elitist strain to the folks you meet in Manhattan but that’s just a symptom of Manhattan’s place on the world stage. The best and brightest flock to Manhattan and they are engaged in just about every cultural and intellectual industry on earth. You meet people there that you wouldn’t meet anywhere else on earth. It is the most international city on earth.
You saying Brooklyn has that? Only to the degree that it is a couple of subway stops from Manhattan.
I love Brooklyn and have always preferred it over Manhattan but only because of it’s close proximity to and toned down pace from The City. From an international perspective, Brooklyn simply does not compare. Top earners will always prefer Manhattan. Jennifer Conolly, Spike Lee, Heath Ledger (RIP), etc. Brooklyn is and always was an extension of Manhattan, not the other way around. I think our preferences hinge on our reality. If we could really afford a WV, UWS or UES townhouse the majority of us would go for it. I know I would. There are exceptions of course.
I like Brooklyn, sort of, but I moved here when it was cheap. I don’t know what people are thinking today. But I am partial to the mutant bubble theory.
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I think you still meet more interesting people in Manhattan.
if by more interesting you mean soulless, vapid, consumerist shopaholic, elitist, trust-funded, and brain dead, then fine you have a point.
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I moved to NYC in 1990 and, after viewing and rejecting several cramped, crappy apartments in Manhattan, made a beeline for Brooklyn and never looked back. As with others on this thread, I would never move to Manhattan, even if I hit the lotto! The changes that I’ve seen in Brooklyn since then have been tremendous, such that Brooklyn now offers the laid-back atmosphere of yesterday combined with expanded amenities (bars, restaurants, better food stores, etc.).
The only way I’d leave Brooklyn is through death, but, then again, maybe I could trade my estate for a plot in Greenwood Cemetary.
No one interesting lives in Manhattan anymore. FatLenny definitely has Fratboy written all over him. His idea of intersting is Zeta Tau
“but I think you still meet more interesting people in Manhattan.”
I absolutely do not agree. Definitely not the case in my life.
If you’re fresh off the boat from the Midwest or just out of college, I can still see wanting to give Manhattan a go for a couple years, but most people it seems…especially ones in the creative fields…end up discovering and moving to Brooklyn after a certain point.
The unique nature of the many different neighborhoods and how they are woven together is what makes it such a special place to live. I don’t feel any difference in Manhattan anymore…other than the physical difference in the way the neighborhoods look, they all have a pretty similar feel, with pretty similar people.
In Brooklyn, you can take the train a few stops and be transported to a whole new world. That’s the beauty of it, I think.