any thoughts on bushwick?

My take: used to be a wasteland of abandoned factory buildings, starting not to be; get a bike. I have some good friends who live on Varet Street and they paid like $300 a month for the entire floor of a warehouse. They had parties w/like 200-300 people in there easily. Landlord raised their rent to $3000 one day. It's still a deal!

there's an element of that, no doubt, but if someone's out to mug people then there's not any way of carrying yourself that's going to put them off. i was strolling confidently down devoe street in williamsburg on my way to a friend's party, turned the corner onto olive street, and shazam. a guy with gun pedalled up on his bike and demanded my bag. no amount of self-possession or savvy is going to prevent something like that.

best quote ever

people will think you're talking on your cellphone.

Pretty sure it wasn't a mugging... evidently someone was after him about, uh, something between them.

We found a place on McKibben yesterday. How is the consensus two years later? It's about three blocks from the L at either Montrose or Morgan. I've been out there a few times and never had any problems.

anyway, i was mugged twice while i lived there, tho both involved walking home alone drunk in the middle of the night.

also: if it's the building i'm thinking of, have fun in winter. the windows are all busted and the heat's a joke. also one or all of your neighbors will be in a band that practices in their apartment.

the salsa music all day is grating, yes.

Currently on the hunt for a 2BR off Bedford or Lorimer. Keep your ears to ground, people!

Three years later, any thoughts on the Montrose and Morgan L stops?

Morgan is mckibben lofts aka 20 year old hipster dorms neighborhood but tbh I think I went to bushwick like 5 times total after I moved because I hated it so much so who knows what it's like now?

"east williamsburg"

they should just call it "east manhattan"

West Hamptons

east new york is the new bushwick

I know of a few students (NYU, New School, FIT) who have tentatively started to move into the area but all the accounts are so far conflicting. any thoughts?

I live near the Graham and Grand L stops now and I walk over to the Morgan area occasionally for galleries or to get breakfast at Tina's, and sometimes venture more towards Jefferson and DeKalb stops. I can't say I'd want to raise a family there, but I'd probably have moved there at 23. Still pretty heavy crime, lots of muggings, etc. Obviously the post-college/art school folk have been moving there for years and as long as the rents keep rising all over the city that trend will continue, but I don't know if the kind of expanding gentrification we've seen in the last decade can go on forever. Depends I guess whether there continues to be an influx of rich europeans buying condos, the job market, crime, various other economic factors.

The other thing is that a lot of Bushwick is just ugly, but so is Williamsburg and that's not stopping people.

why do you think it can't go on forever? lots of people want to live in a nice walkable city and there are like, 2-3 in america.

also recall that williamsburg used to be UGLIER and now it's sort of pleasantly undergrown, I guess...

those are fair points I guess, but the question is whether there's an endless supply of people with MONEY who want to live in a nice, walkable city.

I guess there are parts of Williamsburg that are "pleasantly undergrown" but I find my part just plain ugly. In the areas that are more condo-ized (Bedford, McCarren Park, etc.) there's at least a kind of fascinating decadence to the contrast between the new luxury buildings and their surroundings. But most days on my way home I just think "why are we paying so much rent to live here again?"

because you are 5 minutes away from manhattan

willmbrg/bushwick both p ugly

geenpoint too

greenpoint has some quaint areas

but really all of them are just evidence that the nyc market responds more to context and convenience than the beauty of the housing stock. that's why infill development can be ugly as fuk and still make money.

dont u have like 20 threads on this topic already

ya I didn't start this one iirc

just trying to help hurting understand why he is willing to pay so much money to live on the l train

a: 'the l train'

i dont think you have any idea what hes talking abt tbh

okay dude what is he talking about

hes just going *sigh* this place is ugly is there really even a point *kicks rock* then youre all well according to housing density stats blah blah

ahh ok

treeship email me i'm down to play one night

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Went to Bossa Nova Civic Club last night and were clearly the oldest people by ten years. Fun though. Good DJs.

I've never been, which shows my relevance and reputation these days.

I’d be surprised if we weren’t the only married people too.

a five-block parameter huh?

I used to feel that way in Bushwick too and I was 26/27 when I lived there man alive

Also Bunker was very good

i used to live above BNCC lol true story

in fact i lived there when Wale shot the video for "Bad" there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TIIu9CERgI

not really sure where else to post this without feeling awkward, but: our house on lawton street caught fire last week. my roommate's room, our kitchen and living room were totally wiped out, ditto the upstairs kitchen and living room, and every bedroom in the house got at least some measure of smoke and water damage. everybody has had to move out and is in the process of extracting and trying to clean/save anything not blatantly soaked and sooted to the bone. this has not really been very fun in a lightless house with face masks and headlamps. the worst thing of all is that our cat passed away of smoke inhalation, which i really don't even want to talk about. we're hoping it was quick and relatively painless.

i say all this as a preamble to, there is a gofundme for all us housemates (save Shuj4 H41d3r who lived downstairs of me - if you follow him on twitter you know he got his act together sooner to set up a fundraiser [plus had separate additional expenses to deal with] and has also shared this one). i hardly would ask any of y'all internet cats here to donate but please consider sharing, and more in the spirit of ILX, coming out to the bar-room fundraisers this friday! happy hour at marcos (broadway & malcolm x) from 2 to 8 followed by band showcase at The Gateway from 8:00 on. come have a drink, bring your friends, spread the word! i will be the frequently unshaven man wearing stupid hipster aviator glasses.

jeezus Doc, what a bummer. hope things go well, fast!

Sorry about your losses. Someone on your page should probably spell Rafael Espinal's name correctly.

ah jeez, sorry doc - that’s awful, especially your poor kitty

fuck

sorry for your cat but really good news that no humans were hurt

thanks, y'all. it's been tough but this has definitely reminded me how many people care and want to help - have not had to worry about places to sleep and stuff like that and that takes a ton of what would be nightmarish stress out of the picture. i was at target to buy a rolling suitcase and some underwear/socks and saw a dumb t-shirt with an "I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends" motif and i was like, right on.

and MV, i'll pass that on to to the guy that set up the gofundme, appreciate it.

aw man i'm sorry dc all the best to you, that is awful. im glad you all are safe and im sorry about your cat

oh no doc i am stunned and appalled to hear this

damn, sorry man

you all are terrific. recognized a few ILXor names in the donation list and was really touched. y'all didn't have to do all that! <3 <3 <3

still getting by okay. couchsurfing while i work through cleaning/reboxing/purging the stuff that i did haul out of the place. hopefully when that's done there's enough space in my friend's spare room for me to crash while i look for an apartment, but i've also had several other offers of places to stay in march so that's one big worry taken out of the picture.

good luck doc - glad you've got people who can help

Best of luck Doctor. Fire and the aftermath is such a devastating thing to have to go through, I know. I'm very glad you've got so many good people around you. Hang in there.

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Well that was enjoyable

very disappointed this does not mention the swords at all after first reference, what would carly rae jepsen think