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Parts of Brooklyn, and the city in general, are expensive due to their proximity to Manhattan, and little else. The Soundview section of the Bronx or East New York are cheap for NYC but expensive as hell compared to some rural farming town in Idaho where you’re far less likely to be a crime victim. Real estate is about location. For the same $1M you’d spend on a one bedroom on the upper east side you could buy a mansion in the Midwest. It doesn’t make either place “better” they’re just different. Some like an urban atmosphere and are willing to pay for it. Me, I’d rather see a mushroom cloud rising out of Times Square.
Funny you should say that. GPS did exactly that one time because of westbound traffic... it routed me off the Belt and right onto the streets of East New York. Before I even knew where East New York was... well I found it. Directly north off the Belt.
BTW, no need to point out the $1million+ homes. Even typical BK areas like this have them... no thanks. Let's also pay $1mil to live in Hempstead!
Ok, I'm laying it on pretty thick against BK. I'm never in the $2mil areas for any reason to see anything good to say about the borough. And honestly, are you? The above is all I ever see, in most areas of BK I go through.
While I do think Brooklyn in general is overpriced, there's nothing wrong with the neighborhood you shared. I believe that's Marine Park and it's a very safe neighborhood.
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Of you plug Marlborough Rd into google you will see those homes are in the 1.5 - 2 MILLION range.
Yeah, it's quite expensive over there. I wish I could afford to live in one of those.
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Way to cherry pick. Should i post some pics from East NY or Bed Stuy next? I never said ALL of Brooklyn was a dump, I said much of it is in my opinion. I agree with Ovi8 you couldn't pay me to live there either.
I didn't mean to imply most of Brooklyn was like that, but I do believe that most of Brooklyn is not blighted.
As for Bed Stuy, it's rapidly gentrifying and there's nothing wrong with the housing stock.
I'm new around here, give me time to witness what's what.
Also, to clarify... I didn't say BK is "bad", but it's urban, and LI used to be suburban. Just different (but becoming the same.)
Long Island is still very suburban and the only parts that are urban were already urban 30 years ago.
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are you aware of how much it costs to buy anything decent in Bed-Stuy these days? Of course not...but in case you're interested, we're talking well into 7 figures.
ok, how much? Because you can probably count the lousy neighborhoods in Brooklyn (ones a reasonable person would call a "dump"" on one hand.
Bed Stuy from a stuctural standpoint looks about the same as the fancy parts of Brooklyn!
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