TONY Recommends: Carroll G, Sunset P and The Wick
The title of Time Out New York’s current issue is Apartments: How to find a place when you’re ready for the next phase of your life. Not surprisingly, the County of Kings pops up more than once. Carroll Gardens gets the nod in the You’re tired of hip, gritty and edgy category. And if you’re…
The title of Time Out New York‘s current issue is Apartments: How to find a place when you’re ready for the next phase of your life. Not surprisingly, the County of Kings pops up more than once. Carroll Gardens gets the nod in the You’re tired of hip, gritty and edgy category. And if you’re looking for one of New York’s last untouched neighborhoods, TONY recommends Sunset Park where you are encouraged not to worry about the lack of nightlife: “I remember all Williamsburg was 10 to 15 years ago was a bar and a bulletin board near the L stop,” says 34-year Sunset Parker Jason Hernandez-Rosenblatt. “And look what happened there. And for those young lovebirds looking to play house but not quite ready to breed, there’s always Bushwick. Once people realize they can get a 1,000-square-foot loft with skylights for $1,300 a month and still be only ten minutes from Manhattan, the 300-square-foot, fifth-floor walk-up with the shower in the kitchen on Ludlow Street for $2,300 doesn’t look so great anymore, says Chrissy Rossettie, an ArdorNY agent.
Apartments: Urban Renewal [TONY]
Sunset Park? Is that a joke??
I work there, and dread going every day. The ‘hood is a dump and a bore and lacks almost all amenities beyond the bare minimum of crappy bodegas and bad mexican and chinese food, oh, and some fast food restaurants. What a find!
The first line about staying in Manhattan: “If you needed to ride your bike down a tree-lined street while waving to the kindly shopkeepers who know your name, you’d move to motherfucking Kansas, right?”
Huh? I thought Kansas walled off all the bike-friendly tree-lined streets with interstates and put all the kindly shopkeepers out of business with Wal-Mart. That’s what New Mexico is like.
Everything everywhere is overpriced, but if you are looking for a comparatively affordable place with a strong community vibe, Ditmas Park is the place. Fewer amenities to be sure, but nothing you can’t live without. And when the Connecticut Muffin and the Gourmet store open this summer on Cortelyou there’ll be even less grounds for complaint. The place can’t be beat for kid friendliness either.
what they wrote for Ditmas Park:
If you’re looking to buy a property, you’ll have better luck in more affordable neighborhoods, advises Highlyann Krasnow, executive VP of the Developers Group. “A mortgage broker has an easier time dealing with credit-issued people when the purchase point is lower, because the risk is lower,†she says, recommending Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, where you can get a two-bedroom for $350,000. It’s an ass-hauling 30 to 40 minutes from Manhattan on the Q train and lacks retail stores, but for you, Debty McSpenderson, maybe that’s a good thing.—LL
Ass-hauling 3o-40 minutes? What the hell? who writes this crap?
“What happened to Jason H-R’s blog?”
Posted by: Anonymous at April 27, 2007 7:07 PM
I got a job.
I regret erasing it. Tried starting it up again in february, but blogger wouldn’t give me the sunset parker address again…
What happened to Jason H-R’s blog?
I love Brooklyn wouldnt want to live anywhere else in the world and i have lived in a few places.
Park slope is pants – you can’t park here anymore. I’m moving.
1:57 looking for smaller cheaper enclave? try kensington – do a search on this board and you’ll get a good sample. housing is much cheaper, nice mix of yups, old-timers, different ethnicities, sort-of gay friendly, etc. some nice restaurants etc coming up on cortelyou, and likely to see more (yes it’s technically ditmas park but who cares?) cons: housing stock is pedestrian if that sort of thing matters to you, not much nightlife (but more coming) and it’s a haul from manhattan – doable in my opinion but will take you at least 45 minutes to get into village or farther north.