Breaking News: Ridgewood Is the Next Big Thing
Have you heard that Ridgewood is the next hip neighborhood in NYC? Yeah, we thought so. Just in case you weren’t sure, the New York Daily News profiled the growing neighborhood this morning. Ridgewood: it’s got hip restaurants like Bunker, the art and music space Silent Barn, it’s close to the L train, and it’s…
Have you heard that Ridgewood is the next hip neighborhood in NYC? Yeah, we thought so. Just in case you weren’t sure, the New York Daily News profiled the growing neighborhood this morning. Ridgewood: it’s got hip restaurants like Bunker, the art and music space Silent Barn, it’s close to the L train, and it’s got industrial areas that appeal to creative types as well as Renaissance Revival residential blocks. Rents are going up, with two bedrooms priced around $1,450 a month and one bedrooms asking between $1,100 and $1,300. To buy a home here, prices hover around $700,000.
Ridgewood, Queens, Is Emerging as a ‘Next Big Thing’ for Creatives Types Priced out of Brooklyn [NY Daily News]
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Can this website stop with these articles? You’re making it worse for long term residents who are barely scraping by. Also, please don’t respond with “well if you can’t keep up, don’t live there…” Cause people like me have been trying really hard to keep up. No instead, this article just adds more stress to a volatile situation. Landlords see articles like these, get greedy, and totally disregards to responsible tenants in favor of those who can pay more. Meanwhile the ones who have seen the neighbor grow get displaced. Disrupting life. For friends and routines have been established, bonds have been made. I don’t understand when an area improves, then the gentrification and real estate agents swoop in like vultures – after the work has already been done.