by Justine Read this article this morning and my favorite part:.
Property values in Greenpoint are also likely to see a decline, predicts New York. “If those T-shirt designers and bloggers can suddenly afford their first choices, closer to the all-holy Bedford Avenue stop on the L, they’ll abandon Greenpoint in a Brooklyn minute.”
One can hope! My wish for the real estate market to declinein Greenpoint is not somehow a ‘dig’ towards my home.…
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you hit it squarely, God willing the lunatic alien invasion has crested, and by that the property values,so that the original inhabitants, their children, those that came up here or those that would like to invest something other than an attitude could make the Point a great place to live.
I’ve been a homeowner here since the mid 70’s and it’s true, there was a time you couldn’t walk across Berry without being yoked by some junkie/idiot- but Greenpoint was never at that Bushwick-level of depravity.
I sure hope some of the present chemistry changes, before Greenpoint loses it’s identity.
There’s no need for any dramatic changes here; there never was.
The current building fiasco around McKarrin is bad enough,just too drastic,it seems..and Jeez, so ugly.
PS not fawning here but keep it up, there’s a need for this blog..
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