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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you called it tyburg6
this post reeks of “creative professional” angst, not to mention “new” brooklyn obtuseness/egoism/smugness. in what possible way could we ever see the “end” of Brooklyn???
i’ve lived in brooklyn 25 years. since i arrived before brooklyn “started”, does that mean i was never really here?
indianapolis, there are some nice hoods close to downtown there.
I’ve said it before: I don’t care how much money I make, I’ll never live in Manhattan again. Too crowded, too loud, too stressful, not enough skyline, too full of assholes.
Course … it appears that I won’t be living in Brooklyn for much longer either (probably moving to Indianapolis). But if I ever come back, and I hope I’ll be able to, it’ll be to Brooklyn.
I can’t tell you how tired I am of hearing the term “creative professionals.”
Unless you fall into this category, there’s no reason for you to live in Brooklyn. I actually fall in the category of “knowledge worker” — how does that work? And most people I know are not “creative professionals” but still live in Brooklyn.
This terms is just code for “folks that make a lot of money” but want a moniker that makes them feel better about themselves. They’re not artists… they’re just *not bankers*
It’s a darn good thing that we’d never let chains like Ikea, Target or Costco into the borough and ruin our authenticity.
“I’d rather just be in the real thing”
If that implies Brooklyn is “fake” and Manhattan is “real”, then I have absolutely nothing in common with that guy. Good riddance.
You may not return to The City but Manhattan-prices-in-Brooklyn will. The preoccupation with this topic speaks volumes. And the disneyfication in Manhattan will de-disneyfy and the edgy cafes and shops will return there as well.
***Bid half off peak comps***
Ugh, “publicists”. They’re only entertaining when they’re running people down at bad clubs in the Hamptons.
Now I can totally understand how lower rents in Manhattan will attract people back for reasons like convenience etc – but the mentality of the “publicist” who said – “If it’s as expensive in Brooklyn as Manhattan, I’d rather just be in the real thing.” Uh – that’s annoying.