(Part of) Why Brooklyn Rocks
We just came across this quote from venture capitalist extraordinaire Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) in a post last week discussing a start-up conference held by Brooklyn Beta at the Invisible Dog on Bergen Street: It also bears saying that Brooklyn is the coolest part of NYC by a long shot. It is filled with super talented…
We just came across this quote from venture capitalist extraordinaire Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) in a post last week discussing a start-up conference held by Brooklyn Beta at the Invisible Dog on Bergen Street:
It also bears saying that Brooklyn is the coolest part of NYC by a long shot. It is filled with super talented creative people who live and work in a dense urban environment that is still borderline affordable.
This pretty much sums up the wind that’s been at Brooklyn’s back for the past decade and what should continue to drive it going forward. Oh, that and the architecture, restaurants, parks and lack of the entitled superrich, to name just a few.
I think we need to learn to take a compliment regardless of err who its coming from.
This whole have and have nots thing is tiresome. GAWD! Every community has new and old, rich and poor – for me Brooklyn is a Utopia compared to places like Hoboken and yes Manhattan – I am surrournded by people and trees that are both 100 years old.
Also if you can read this blog you are entitled enough to know that you are reading this blog… read into this what you want.
Queens!?!? Is that for people?
Mr. B is the one that wrote the part about the lack of super rich.
Mr. B looks like Jeff Tweedy.
maybe he meant that we have some of the super rich but not the entitled subset of the super rich. the entitled ones stick to the other boroughs. I do run across the unfortunate entitled but non-super-rich, who are plenty annoying, but perhaps spread over a larger area given their lack of super-wealth. I did encounter some really haughty-sounding new-to-NYC British women over the weekend and they seemed to be having a hard enough time getting to Bleeker street from the UES so we’re safe for now. I don’t think they were super-rich however, because they were on the subway after all, and not just for the sake of the experience.
“#ticketmastersucks: i interrupted a meeting, went to my computer at noon sharp, waited for Tweedy/Bowery tix to go on sale”
Seriously? This guy doesn’t have an assistant to do that for him? What kind of venture capitalist is this? Also, if I were seeking funding from a VC I don’t know that I guy who walks out of meetings to buy Jeff Tweedy tickets would be my first choice to pitch to.
“is still borderline affordable.”
the border is gonna close soon.
Prices are only going to go up, up and up.
Fred also tweeted this:
“#ticketmastersucks: i interrupted a meeting, went to my computer at noon sharp, waited for Tweedy/Bowery tix to go on sale, and was shut out”
I feel your pain, man.
11217 your point is well taken, but the original post cites the “lack of the entitled superrich” which is putting things a bit too strongly.
I wasn’t suggesting that at all – merely that their percentage is growing, and will no doubt continue to do so, and even at an increased rate, thanks to all this attention from venture capitalists, etc.
Even if you’re buying a 3 million dollar brownstone – in the grand scheme of things in NYC you aren’t “super rich”
Super rich are the mofos living in 740 Park Ave or 15 CPW or 20 million dollar Tribeca lofts.