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Originally Posted by Crawford
The article is about a WeWork executive saying that Jersey City is currently pretty dead compared to Brooklyn, which I think almost everyone would agree with. JC has come a long way but no rational person is going to say it's Brooklyn's equal.
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No rational person would summarily compare "Brooklyn" and "Jersey City" in such a sweeping way...for one thing, both are comprised of radically different neighborhoods (Brownsville? Greenville? Park Slope? Hamilton Park? Downtown Brooklyn? Grove St?), and for another, what counts as 'dead' or not is largely a matter of taste.
Let's make things more concrete (and set aside my first objection) by talking about the neighborhoods actually at play here: Journal Square, where WeWork may (or may not) lease some space, and Bushwick, where the WeWork executive said he wanted to company to focus. There's practically nothing of interest to me in places like Williamsburg or Bushwick...just generic overpriced fauxhemian schlock that wouldn't be out of place in Austin or Portland. Just my opinion, but the neighborhoods that i like in Brooklyn are actually pretty similar to Journal Square. Where a corporate real estate drone sees a "pretty dead" neighborhood, I see a vibrant multi-ethnic immigrant community. The first two pics are Journal Square, the latter three are Bushwick near the Morgan L stop and the Schlitz Brewery, where WeWork might take some space. For person A, the first two pics may depict a "dead zone" with no upscale bars, artisanal coffee shops, etc while person B may be more likely to apply the label to the latter three pictures... is one person or the other really more "rational"? I'd say that sort of a question isn't very productive...there's a reason city vs. city talk is banned on this board.
"Little India" on Newark Ave, Journal Square:
"Morgantown" area near Roberta's and McKibbin Lofts, the epicenter of Bushwick's gentrification: