Forget the yuppies and their real estate ills. Theres a whole economic mix in Brooklyn that gets completely ignored
The New York Times has a lot to say about Brooklyn, the place Ive called home nearly all my life. According to a recent article, my neighborhood in Brooklyn is the last of the affordable ones, even as those looking to plop down over half a million dollars on an apartment are priced out of the hippest neighborhoods.
Lets get one thing out of the way: Brooklyn has long been expensive for most of those who live there, like most of New York. But theres a big rift between the affluent professionals piling millions into the brownstone neighborhoods of Carroll Gardens, Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights and the rest of Brooklyn, a middle-to-working class haven for low pretension and inexpensive food.
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