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Originally Posted by urbanlife
You are right, I am not from Brooklyn, though I did practically live there for two years while I worked in Brooklyn. Though I will say those that I met and became friends there that were born and raised Brooklyners told me a lot about how the neighborhoods they grew up in had all changed and were no longer like the places they once lived in due to the skyrocketing rents that make Brooklyn desirable for the trust fund kids.
When I see downtown Brooklyn, I imagine it as being the downtown for Brooklyn, not the residential neighborhood for Lower Manhattan.
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You don't believe the people who work for Kickstarter or the tech girls and guys working Downtown already wouldn't want to live in a neighborhood closer to work? That actually has great amenities or high rises to choose from? That's what Downtown is becoming and that's why I said this is what it would've been if we never annexed.
Regarding rents, nothing stays the same for ever. Look at New Amsterdam.
My only gripe is when people attempt to relate everything back to Manhattan. As if Brooklyn does everything to attract Manhattanites. Why shouldn't Brooklyn have wayyyy more retail (upscale especially), great amenities to choose from, etc? Needless to say this is Downtown we're talking about. Once again even before people started to move into the borough, the population of DTBK was so minuscule no one cared (after 1898 of course).
I reiterate I'm from Brooklyn because while I didn't grow up in the era of "old school" Brooklyn, I am a native. I LOVE skyscrapers but I don't care for Manhattan, at all. Don't get me wrong I love density but it's just something about Brooklyn that's the perfect balance of both "home" and "city" - if you know what I mean. There are plenty of landmarked places around the borough so when people so things like
"it's becoming like Manhattan" blah blah blah they really don't realize it's so many areas developers can't touch in BK! So when you have a transit friendly, under developed (in my opinion), walkable area like DTBK, towers like this should rise. Whether residential (for working people in the borough OR entire city if they choose DTBK fits what they want) or a super-tall office tower. There are many companies in Brooklyn that wants to stay here BUT they need more space! Luckily Etsy secured a spot in DUMBO or else they probably would've moved their headquarters out a few years ago. And where do you think these Etsy workers would want to live? I don't know maybe a train stop or a few away, which would be Downtown.
Brooklyn is solidified now. It's no longer the alternative. So if someone wants to pay $3,500 for a studio in this building. I'm pretty sure they can pay that same amount to live across the river.