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Nice neighborhood but be warned...Even though it's safe and the buildings are historic it's still a very harsh looking place in its own way! Don't expect Berkeley in San Fran or Grosse Point in Detroit, just because it is well off now. It very much looks like an old, city neighborhood! Fine by me but not for everybody!
Yes! Big, brick and foreboding---urban. What I meant is that because people read about all of the amenities and that it's a little ways from Manhattan they assume it has a feel like, I don't know, Kew Gardens? I've heard this kind of disappointment more than once. Like I said I like Park Slope but it's more city-like than the stuff transplants read about it leads them to believe. That's all!
Yes! Big, brick and foreboding---urban. What I meant is that because people read about all of the amenities and that it's a little ways from Manhattan they assume it has a feel like, I don't know, Kew Gardens? I've heard this kind of disappointment more than once. Like I said I like Park Slope but it's more city-like than the stuff transplants read about it leads them to believe. That's all!
Hmmm.... Mebbe.
This is the first time I've heard Venetian Gothic architecture described as 'foreboding'.
Park Slope Pro
1. Considered best neighborhood in NYC
2. Shops, amenities, Prospect Park
3. great transportation options (15 minutes to city)
Park Slope Con
1. Expensive
2. Lack of racial diversity over years
3. Condo glut!
Let me modify Con 2.....Lack of class diversity as well as racial diversity over the years!
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excellent points, the pastpresentandfuture...
Park Slope is one of those areas that got "gentrified" in a short period of time...Great because it made the area safe and more community oriented/vibrant/attractive to all sectors of the NYC population, but bad because prices are through the roof for lower middle income households.
Thanks.
I also liked your posts about Park Slope, Brooklyn and you make good points too about Park Slope.
Which years do you think Park Slope got gentrified, more higher income, more racially integrated, and becoming more community oriented/vibrant/attractive to all sectors of the NYC population?
I thought Park Slope was like that for a long time like since the 1970s or even earlier than that. But is it really more recent than that?
However, what seems recent without doubt is the racial integration in Park Slope. This seemed to happen in the past few years and since the early 2000s.
Yeah, since Park Slope is such a desirable neighborhood I am worried that prices will go up in Park Slope. But at this point, it seems more affordable than most areas of Manhattan. I hope it stays that way and prices don't go up.
However, what seems recent without doubt is the racial integration in Park Slope. This seemed to happen in the past few years and since the early 2000s.
What do you mean by racial integration? Since the early 2000s is when I say it became less racially diversed all together.
Beautiful neighborhood.
My family moved there after coming from Puerto Rico. Unfortunately it got too expensive and we ended up befriending the nycha.
You should go and check it out for yourself its really nice.
Very bad neighborhood. It was nice back when I grew up there. It was mostly working class Irish and Italian. Then the hideous "Brownstoners" came in the mid to late sixties and pushed out the street gangs.
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