Gothamist: Manhattanites Choose the Bronx

Mr Mel

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:57:25 -0500

Watch what happens,The Bronx has a waterfront area and that'll be developed sooner than you think. This is the only major city in the world that hasn't fully utilized all their river frontage. Not only the Bronx, but the Rockaways and the rest of the Queens shorefront. Staten Island might as well be on Lake Michigan. In my day, you started out in The Bronx, you didn't wind up there.

glennQNYC

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:40:51 -0500

I'd be interested to see NJ included in the survey...

xenop

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:15:19 -0500

BWAHHAHahahahhaHAHHAhhahahahHAHHAHAHHA

ihateallbrokers

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:54:05 -0500

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brx/rfs/641232925.html why would a pile of cinderblocks and sheetrock and assorted homedepot low quality crap cost 600K?

eyekantspel

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:13:30 -0500

This doesn't fit with the general perception that people who are priced out of Manhattan are moving to Brooklyn. It would help if they gave the income levels of the people moving to each area, I'd expect that would change things a bit.

Kojak

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:44:58 -0500

Nice. The less Manhattan Yuppie freaks moving the Queens, the better.

zodak

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:48:19 -0500

"To me it doesn't make a difference if you are North or South Bronx" it's true. the bronx sucks. maybe all these new people will price out the savages who kill their 18-yr old baby-mamas.

matty

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:47:47 -0500

Move to Chicago. It's like Brooklyn but instead of Manhattan next door we have a large body of freshwater.

Mike B.

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:37:36 -0500

If the "pricing out" trends continue to affect commercial as well as residential tenants and force out the places that make New York unique, my "natural next stop" is nowhere in the metropolitan area. Why are we paying a premium to live here, for a higher density of Starbucks?

bxbrian

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:19:56 -0500

DAMN IT ALL! STAY OUT!

JP Lynch

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:46:21 -0500

Ph: Folks said the same about Bklyn and Queens not too long ago....

Ph

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:42:06 -0500

You people will never take the Bronx. Ever.

ihateallbrokers

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:38:31 -0500

in general theres a big difference between north of fordham road hanging out around kingsbridge & grand concourse at night and lets say..oh 138th street and brook ave!

billyhc

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:37:25 -0500

Riverdale and Spuytin Duyvil are basically the same neighborhood.

zstone

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:36:40 -0500

Brooklyn is "perceived as the natural next stop in a priced-out Manhattanite’s real estate evolution" if you're white and make a real living wage.