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The NY Times is hinting that Brooklyn may be so over, a theory that seems to be based around Heath Ledger leaving the borough.
What if Brooklyn’s recent cachet as the locus for what’s next is little more than a thin and fragile crust of chic, hiding the insecurity of people who constantly measure the social currency of their ZIP code by Manhattan standards? The number of trendy boutiques, bistros and music clubs in Brooklyn may have spiked in the last five years, but its infrastructure of cool still represents only a fraction of that found in Manhattan. Its new identity is moored to a finite number of shops, restaurants, luxury condominiums and, yes, celebrities. If even one leaves, a void is created. Could the borough’s new status vanish as quickly as it ascended?We think perhaps their belief is based upon a "thin and fragile" foundation. After all, if a borough's cred is based upon shops, condos and stars...Brooklyn is faring pretty well. With Trader Joe's, Urban Outfitters, an Apple Store and luxury condos flooding the market and John Turturro, Rosie Perez, Norman Mailer, Steve Buscemi, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Paul Giammati, Adrian Grenier, Michael Pitt, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard calling it home -- it seems Brooklyn won't be suffering from a lack of attention anytime soon, Heath or no Heath.
The Observer recently took a look at Brooklyn's real estate market through the eyes of Eric McFarland, manager of Corcoran Group’s first Williamsburg office. He spoke of the "Manhattanifying" of Brooklyn, and bringing a small army of people across the river to the new emerging markets. Sounds like the borough will be just fine (though maybe they jumped the gun on the whole Red Hook thing), but the current residents may not be into this "Manhattanifying" of which Mr. McFarland speaks.
Photo of Williamsburg condo on fire via I'm Not Sayin.
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This was one of the silliest NY Times articles that I have ever read.
Don't forget Keri Russell in Fort Greene!
that was quite possibly the most nauseating article i have ever read.
I for one hope that as many celebrities leave Brooklyn as possible. Hopefully it'll keep the prices there reasonable. Manhattan is - and I say this as someone who lives here - an island full of insane people who pay way too much money in order to live in a loud, obnoxious, claustrophobic environment.
I can't wait to move out of here to someplace cheaper and quieter. As long as it's safe, I don't give a shit if it's trendy (or if it has an Apple store or a Trader Joe's for that matter... there's this "internet" thing where you can "order" stuff and it gets "delivered" to you).
Nobody wants Brooklyn to be like Manhattan and if they do, well, the obvious answer is that's where they should move.
Who gives a shit about Heath Ledger? Or where any celebrity lives for that matter.
who...but...huh? does anyone reallly give a damn about their zip code? must be a slow news day at the NY times if they're pondering the 'what if this isn't cool anymore' of brooklyn...
I'm moving out of manhattan and into brooklyn. I know it's really sad, but I can't afford the real estate taxes anymore. I say if you live in parts of brooklyn that is nearer to manhattan than you are lucky. but those places are even more expensive than manhattan.
brooklyn was around before the new york times and will be here after the new york times, brooklyn should rise up and stomp the ny times building for publishing such trivial piffle, ny times you disappoint me
Turturro, Perez and Buscemi are from here, so they can stay (even though Rosie has a shrill voice). Norman Mailer can stay too, because who the fuck am I to tell Norman fucking Mailer what to do? Connelly can stay because she's hot. Ledger and the rest should feel welcome to wherever the NYT tells them the next trendy neighborhood is.
The new New York Times building is like ... really pointy on top. If Brooklyn rose up and stomped on it, Brooklyn would probably spear itself int the foot.
Where is the NYTs finding these retards to write for them? Brooklyn is growing and will continue to grow. I live in the LES and all of the music venues have been closing here. Now new music venues are opening in Brooklyn. Manhattan is almost done. All the cool people and places are disappearing.
Yes, Brooklyn is so over. Particularly in Park Slope, so 2002. So please, all of you, move the fock out so I can buy a Brownstone for less than 1 Mil and not have to see boutiques with $500 skirts.
I also heard a rumor that raising kids in the Slope lowers their average IQ by 40 points. Did you hear that you stroller mafiosas? Better push your bugaboo's right back over the bridge.
guess you better pack it up and move to SoBro, Jen.
This article was repulsive. It would be easy to dismiss if the NY Times didn't employ a cadre of writers, particularly in their dreaded Fashion & Style Section, that churns this kind of status obsessed crap out with regularity. I've always found it irritating how the editorial page of the paper pretends to be the friend of the working man while articles like this, which basically promote the basest side of materialism, pop up under the very same masthead.
Pretty funny and fairly lame aricle. I used to live in Bklyn back in the day and now am in LA - this article was almost as stupid as the ones they write about LA.
Ahoy stereotypes and idiotic thirdhand observations! What on earth has happened to the NYTimes?
New Hot Neighborhood? Passaic, NJ. See you there!
the NYT just moved down 2 notches in my book for this "Enquirer unworthy read."
doesn't jen chung live in redhook? I told my friends to never go there. too many mexicans.
Gesin Gesundt (or however it's spelled)
Sounds like they need to be reminded that the five boroughs were only incorporated a little over a hundred years ago, and until then Brooklyn was its own city.
i would love it if you guys thought brooklyn was so over. Then you can get the fuck out of my borough and my rent can stay the same. Go get priced out of some other borough, not mine.
Like there is ONE option ONLY!!?! To be manhatan!?
Brooklyn is Brooklyn presisly becaus eManhatan is Manhatan...the article mentioning how brookly is doomed because is not manhatan is sooooooo ZERO SUM
screw Brooklyn. Queens is the place to be! Come on Gothamist show some love to Queens.
Trader Joe's? Queens gets TJ's before Brooklyn. You can kiss my ass, Brooklyn.
--newsy
Jackson Heights
I love Brooklyn. Heath or no Heath. Thursday Styles is trash.
Yeah, when I was at the Atlantic Antic this weekend I looked around at the thousands of people there and thought 'This place is so over! There's no one here and nothing going on.'
HA!! I love it how soo many Non New Yorkers(not born here) live in Brooklyn and pretend they are New Yorkers when the true New Yorkers are from Queens!
-Elmhurst-
I live in Brooklyn explicitly because it is where I go to get away from "trendy boutiques, bistros and music clubs", "luxury condominiums and celebrities", and generally "people who constantly measure the social currency of their ZIP code by Manhattan standards". That Manhattan crap is for tourists and jerk-offs. It's not cool that's leaving Brooklyn, it's cool that is rejecting that shit.
god all the years we've been living here raising our families and it turns out it was all a facade - thanks NY times for dehumanizing millions of people so succiently
Being born and raised in Queens, I would never ever consider for even a NY minute to move to Brooklyn. I worked there (Park Slope/Red Hook) for 5 years 2000-2005 and saw so many changes. It went from a normal Brooklyn neighborhood to Hipster Heaven in that short time (plus no parking). I must say it lost its flavor and identity. Kind of sad. Rent was affordable and people were able to live their lives and not only worry about paying rent. By 2005 rent on a crumby dirty block for a small 1 bedroom was over 1K.
Parts of Queens have changed as well, but not like that. Thank God.
No celebrities in Queens Please. Stick to Manhattan.
Marygrace, I think this is the first post I've seen from you that didn't have any exclaimation points. Heehee.
Oh, and I agree with you. :D
- Fellow Queens Native
I didn't realise that the NY Times was the media leader in what is 'cool'. Stupid me!
Anyone who reads that article and takes is seriously should stay in manhattan. I just got word that theTimes is doing an article about how Hoboken is the new Brooklyn, which of course, was the new (old) East Village, which at some point was part of New Amsterdam. Which of course was the new...Amsterdam! So There you have it, going to Hoboken is just like taking a trip to Europe!
Pack your bags!
Worst article ever. People who have lived in Brooklyn for a long period of time (as I have) do so specifically because it is not Manhattan. I go to Manhattan to work and I go to Brooklyn to live and I am A-OK with that. NYTimes...Suck it!!!
#32 Fellow Queens Native
Thanks.
I will try to cut down on the exclaimation points. I just sometimes get excited, that's all. LOL
; >
who is heath and why should i care where he lives?
I was Brooklyn before Brooklyn was Brooklyn. Where were you all in 1962 when I was born in Brooklyn Jewish Hospital? Where were you when I was playing on Avenue Z and riding the D train to junior high school? I was a Brooklyn writer before the Hot Brooklyn Writers knew Park Slope existed? And Park Slope is not really Brooklyn. Come to Sheepshead Bay. Now THAT'S Brooklyn.
Just reminding people that we were the natives before you stole our land.
:}
I was Brooklyn before it was Breukelen. But your smallpox blankies killed me. What a shame.
Chief Anna Merkin