Absolutely ridiculous what trendoids have done to Brooklyn. Middle-class and lower-middle class people forced out into Queens which will become the next hot spot if it hasn’t happened already. Queens!
What we really need is a revitalization of the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. I’ve been waiting 30 years for that.
Go home all you trendoids!
Oakland CA is the hotspot because the soaring prices in SF sent people across the bay.
Nothing new here. People live where they can afford to live. That’s the way it’s been forever.
Do you remember the old Paradise Theater on the Grand Concourse? My father’s bar-mitzvah was there.
Revitalize the commercial nexus at Fordham Road where Alexander's department store was and Fordham east and west and it becomes a great commercial anchor.
Second apt. I had was just south of the reservoir by Lehman College, three blocks north of Fordham Rd. 20+ minutes to mid-town. In 1972 my 1 bedroom with french doors to the living rm, glazed door to kitchen/dining, elevator bldg, small supermarket half block away, the rent was $137/mo. Bread was $.79 a loaf, whole Purdue chicken about $1/lb, on sale, .79/lb.
GF took me to Lohman's on Fordham, once. Sat in the husband section by the window and watched near carnage raging on the sales floor. Never again ;>)
The Long Island City portion of Queens is booming. Soon to be a mini Manhattan.