Brooklyn, NY: moving advice/realtors

unlimited Amtrak pass between Philly and NY costs $1350

for a year? that's almost exactly the same as an unlimited NYC MetroCard

No per month

lol amtrak

i suggested just buying a farmhouse in rural vermont and spending the saved money on ATVs and liquor but no dice. i also suggested living in any other city in the entire country but no dice.

i like sunset park but ppl are like oh, the r train or whatever, it takes forever, like i'd be way out in the provinces riding a mulecart into the city, but i think maybe some of that is new yorkish subway snobbery? idk

incidentally there are people who have nyc -> nyc commutes that are worse than philly -> nyc. like I had a friend who had to do astoria to staten island.

― iatee, Monday, June 23, 2014 10:11 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol there are like 5 people fitting that description and your friend is crazy

sunset park is basically queens but a much worse commute than queens

Sunset Park has dope mexican and chinese food

unless you're used to drinking in Park Slope xp

xxxp R train does take forever. You can transfer to an express N train which is a little faster, though service in that part of Brooklyn can get pretty janky. I used to work on the border of Boro Park/Bensonhurst and it's a long haul.

a lot of the to-be-gentrified parts of brooklyn (sunset park, bed stuy) are so enormous that it's hard to imagine then completely done over in 10 years

eeeehhhhhh 10 years? I can imagine it.

yer forgetting there will be another market crash and possibly two more Sandy-level flood disasters in the interim.

just keepin' it real

the 1% are building those 90-story needle condos in Manhattan for a reason y'know

Yeah tbc I don't really believe that all of Brooklyn is just going to keep gentrifying at the same rate until it's done. I just don't think there is enough yuppiedom to fill the entire borough. Plus there's going to be different demand in the "brownstone" neighborhoods/the ones that have awesome parks, and not all areas do.

bed stuy is brownstone central. I think it's going to get snatched up in pretty short order.

yeah for sure

bed stuy & crown heights def already in the gentrification process, let's not kid ourselves. sunset park will take a little longer.

It seems like the neighborhoods most likely to go that route are either formerly rich neighborhoods (nice brownstone housing stock) or industrial neighborhoods (warehouses to convert to lofts or empty, cheap land to build new condos)

proximity to decent transit also matters, like red hook would be much further along than it is now if there were a train, but only a certain type of person is gonna accept really bad commutes. that's another limiting factor.

I'm interested in what will happen in a place like flatbush. pretty decent transit, right by a huge beautiful park, but filled with dense huge elevator buildings, the exact type that seem least suited to rowhouse lovers or loft renovators. also sandwiched in between two ditmas park and prospect lefferts.

bushwick it is! see yall next month

thanks for the info

aaand here, what thread do the cool new york ppl hang out on

there's not really a new york thread, there are just 20 threads that only new york residents comment on