Who Rents Here?
More fun with demographics! The average brownstone Brooklyn renter in the first quarter of this year was a twentysomething artsy freelancer who makes $50,000 a year, says the Eagle. The profile is based on data from a firm called Ideal Properties Group. More: 33 percent of new Brooklyn renters were in the entertainment business, 24…
More fun with demographics! The average brownstone Brooklyn renter in the first quarter of this year was a twentysomething artsy freelancer who makes $50,000 a year, says the Eagle. The profile is based on data from a firm called Ideal Properties Group. More: 33 percent of new Brooklyn renters were in the entertainment business, 24 percent in art, design and architecture, 10 percent in legal work, 9 percent in advertising, media and public relations, and 7 percent in sales. (How about finance?) According to Ideal’s report, fewer new renters are coming from across the river: In the first quarter of 2006, 53 percent were from Manhattan, compared to 24 percent in Q1 2008. The vast majority of renters surveyed had roommates.
As Brooklyn Grows, More People—And Young Ones—Are Renting [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
Are these people bitter?
The average brownstone Brooklyn renter in the first quarter of this year was a twentysomething artsy freelancer who makes $50,000 a year, says the Eagle.
A chronicle of wannabeeism.
Honestly I don’t care either way if you’re a trust fund baby or not but I will say this. Having working in a private wealth occupation, I noticed that a lot of these recipients lie or are extremely secretive if they have this type of wealth. So just because you weren’t told, doesn’t mean they don’t have it.
Wait…everyone on Brownstoner tells me that only Wall Streeters live in Park Slope. Who are the people on this thread who work in the arts (some single…GASP!!! no kids!!! GAY??!!!WHAT??!)
They must all be lying right…?
We all know the only people in PS are married with kids and work on Wall Street.
In all my 30 years in NYC, throughout which I have always been involved with, and employed around, many facets of the “arts” community: musicians, fine artists,dancers, actors, writers, and craftspeople of all kinds, I have to say, I only met one person who had family money to live on. The trust fund artist is an urban myth, or at least a paper tiger.
I’ve always wondered if those who profess to despise trust funders in the arts so much, are the same people who also hate poor people in the projects with the same passion. What a limited view of the “worthy” that leaves.
i WISH i had a trust fund.
Re: Trust Funds kids…
Who cares???!!!
Do you not realize that for every trust fund kid in Brooklyn, there are 20 in Manhattan.
You all are so stupid.
So we should shame people who were born into money…something completely out of their control?
Get a life, please.
The freelance video “artsy” guy that used to live upstairs from me, in my old Brooklyn apartment, was a Trust Fund guy.
His last name had a V (5th) at the end, and the mailman would leave his huge envelopes from the Private Bank division on the floor in front of the mailbox (apparently when you have enough money to weren’t the Private Bank, they have to oversize the statements).
i’m a music editor, make about 60K a year and live in park slope. i’m single, gay and 29.