"If anything the media has downplayed the effect this crash will have on RE, in other words TS, methinks you’re a broker. God, RE people are the biggest, most vile liars in NYC, do you really think anyone believes the pro RE quotes that we read in the Times or the Observer and especially NY Read More
"Why do people think all this financial sector woe is going to have that big an impact? Other people have money, not just people on Wall Street. Prices in Manhattan probably won’t come down, that will send buyers to Brooklyn. The financial sector only accounts for about fifteen to twenty percent of the real estate Read More
As a chillier wind sliced through Brooklyn’s popular corridors last Saturday night, it was hard to imagine by the looks of things that anything was wrong with the economy. On North Sixth Street in Williamsburg, young women with Louis Vuitton bags teetered in Manolo Blahniks on the arms of their white-collared dates. Booze coursed through Read More
"First off, there’s no question–in my humble opinion–that the literary center of New York has moved to Brooklyn," said our oh-so-humble Borough President Marty Markowitz celebrating the Brooklyn Book Festival in the ornate lobby of Borough Hall this past Sunday. "The authors live here, the illustrators live here, and the energy–there’s that energy!–among residents of Read More
I love the Q train. O.K., I love the B, too, but it’s the Q that’s stolen my heart.
When I moved back to Brooklyn in January, the biggest factor in finding an apartment was its proximity to this train line, and especially to the 7th Avenue station (a nice change of pace after Read More
"A great follow-up to this would be about how the luxury rental buildings in the city are becoming very close to gated communities, they just happen to go up instead of out (like they do in the ‘burbs)." ["Brooklyn, The Borough: Brooklyn's Cul-de-Sac"]
One of my favorite things about the suburbs are the supermarkets. I love the sprawling aisles, the enormous selection, the friendly cashier and, of course, the car that brings all those heavy, super-sized containers home.
Though the suburban life is plentiful in many ways, space is a major one, it is urban dwelling that Read More
"That’s Brooklyn Heights over there," said the 47-year-old driver of a Brooklyn-bound double-decker Gray Line tour bus, pointing across the East River. "Wherever there’s water, there’s money, and I don’t mean a puddle on the street."
I had just boarded the at the South Street Seaport, paid my $41 fare, and taken my seat Read More
"What is so special about Brooklyn?? That’s all we ever read about in this rag. Are you telling me the snotty (white) infants in Park Slope will be getting a better slice of life than the (brown/white/asian) kids in Astoria and Jackson Heights??" ["Brooklyn, The Borough: Growing Up New York"]
"I just thought the whole thing was fabulous – what a great childhood you had!," responded my mom when I asked her why in the world she ever decided to raise her children in Manhattan. In the 1980s. On Eighth Avenue and 53rd Street. "You got to see a side of the world other kids Read More
