Will Everyone Go Running Back to Manhattan?
Crain’s recycles the question (asked by The Times a week earlier) that seems to be on everyone’s mind these days: Do falling Manhattan rents spell the end of Brooklyn? We don’t think so. Clearly some people who work in Midtown and were living in Brooklyn based on price alone (“If it’s as expensive in Brooklyn…
Crain’s recycles the question (asked by The Times a week earlier) that seems to be on everyone’s mind these days: Do falling Manhattan rents spell the end of Brooklyn? We don’t think so. Clearly some people who work in Midtown and were living in Brooklyn based on price alone (“If it’s as expensive in Brooklyn as Manhattan, I’d rather just be in the real thing, says one publicist) will return to Manhattan but, we’d bet, most of the creative professionals who’ve put down roots in the County of Kings are here to stay. Real housewife Alex McCord summed up how we—and, if this poll is to be believed, many others—feel when she told the paper, Even if we had Warren Buffett money, we would never leave.
Can Brooklyn Keep Its Mojo? [Crain’s]
Brooklynites Jumping Ship to Manhattan? [Brownstoner]
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i didnt like ur characterization of bk residents outside of the brownstone belt.i know u were just making an example,but it still rubbed me the wrong way.i still should not have came at u the way i did.i apologize
Etson and Dirty Hipster,
You have no clue. I try to be a great host because I feel like it is one of the things I have realized from my travels: Foreignors are much better hosts! I alwasy want people to leave visiting me to know that I did the best I could to give them an epic stay. My only regret was that I did not get to take them to WIlliamsburg for a show but next time. I took them through a 30 minute walk through Central Park and to have drinks at the rooftop of the Met on Saturday. We barely slept all weekend. Last night at like midnight after the Union Hall drinks we were nice drunk after all the food and drinks and I took them of a quick walking tour of Park Slope down 3rd street to the Park, past the pink house on Garfield and then back to the park toward Grand Army Plaza. It was a beautiful night. Friends are great. 🙂
Buckfast… what exactly are you reacting to? I’d be happy to accept your insult, but I don’t know what it is.
god,u r such a F’N wannabe tybur6.”$40,000/yr social worker that rents?Nope.They dont live in the Brooklyn that most here have in mind” Who the hell r u to characterize people like that.U r the exact type of an arrogant asshole transplant that most of us natives f’n hate.
I’ve worked in five different offices, for two different companies, since I moved to New York and all of them have been between 14th and 57th street, between Park and Eighth ave (14th, 21st, 39th, 23rd, 36th). There’s a LOT of small-to-mid-sized companies in that area that employ “creative professionals”.
I wish my company’s offices was in Brooklyn. That would rock. But since the CEO commutes from Westchester, there’s no way.
LincolnSlope,
Brunch at Sarabeth’s = guaranteed epicenter of douchiness, probably not a fair reflection of Manhattan as a whole.
You treat your guests well. If I had a weekend that full it would take me till the next weekend to recover!
Also… just throwing this out there… why is everyone expected to commute to midtown Manhattan?! I actually work in Brooklyn — and currently can walk to work — but if my rent goes up I’m moving. To Bushwick or Greenpoint? My commute would be an hour easy… I could probably live on Staten Island or Jersey City and have a shorter commute!!
So, there are a lot of opportunities I guess for “creative professionals” — because they either stay at home or, apparently, all work between 14th and 57th in manhattan!
Guys – You’re missing the point. Its not that everyone will go running back to Manhattan. It’s that buyers/renters (a la Team Bear – Grrrrrr) will get a neighborhood “upgrade” or two. WV/UWS/SOHO/Tribeca rentals and sales will now be had at Chelsea/Murray Hill/UES/LES/Midtown prices. Chelsea/Murray Hill/UES/LES/Midtown rentals and sales will now be had at Caroll Gardens/Park Slope/Brooklyn Heights prices. Caroll Gardens/Park Slope/Brooklyn Heights rentals and sales will now be had at Fort Green/Clinton Hill/Prospect Heights prices. (slight inaccuracies perhaps but you get my point)
And for all you pioneers, Manhattan’s edge WILL return. That’s what depressions do – bankrupt the corporations and resurrect the mom and pops.
Yes! The whole collapse is happening as planned. I’m ecstatic!
“Upgrade upgrade!” – Beyonce
***Bid half off peak comps***
Yes, the “real thing” comment was annoying but If you’re not from here: Idaho, Alabama, Boston or Europe and the “real thing” is what you saw on “Sex and the City” then Manhattan is right for you. For the rest of us, for various other reasons, Brooklyn meets our needs.