any thoughts on bushwick?

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

I'm trying to get him to understand the beauty of housing density

im sure he can access all of yr threads abt that if he wants to but damn man people have other concerns

he asked whether bushwick etc. can gentrify forever

u should try drugs

haha are you really resentful @ me for not doing enough drugs, youve been trolling me since the drugs threads

bushwick is good for that

im resentful of you talking abt housing density in every thread on ilx and i think drugs might help you cool out a bit

you know we agree on a lot of stuff on ilx and whatever beef you have w/ me atm is one-sided

just stop yglesiasing up every thread! this is said by someone who has a high tolerance for yglesiasing

feel like you think my yglesiasing is getting in the way of your yglesiasing

its just a matter of conversational etiquete, ilx is not a blog

this is good

ilx is a lot of things to a lot of people, I def start lots of threads bout things that interest me but I'm not particularly self-conscious about it cause they generally get people posting. maybe it's ilx etiquette to respond to hurting's question about the limits of brooklyn gentrification w/ an animated gif but I do think it's an interesting question, sorry if that steps on your toes a lil

the fact that you precaved those post as constituting a question abt brooklyn gentrification that needed facts 4U is just like did you copy and paste that shit from some other post

its fucking compulsive

is this beef for real :(

idk other people might think 40 y/os doing hipster runoff impressions for years on end is 'unhealthy behavior', it's a perspective thing

and truthfully its not just you, the graduate school chatter is basically ruining ilx atm, quality people all of you no doubt but dont pull us into yr intellectual fever dream

and im totally not 40

and hipster runnoff copied me everyone knows that duh, anyway i guess just stfu nerd is what im trying to say

is this beef for real :(

― horseshoe, Thursday, March 8, 2012 11:08 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sry dudes nu era posi ilx m/l blows

the graduate school chatter is basically ruining ilx atm, quality people all of you no doubt but dont pull us into yr intellectual fever dream

where is the emoticon for the face that im making rn i wonder

anyway i am subletting a place in greenpoint better luck next time bushwick

ha are you really?

what do you giuys think of Ital

xp to many other threads: shit that could be in the onion, HEY JEWS, poly people, etc

Well that was enjoyable

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