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I recently read that Maya Angelou bought her harlem house for $425k in 2002. Back then people still were sceptical of Harlem's potential. It is on the market for over $5 million 13 years later. I doubt they solely priced it based on being previously owned by Maya Angelou. People need to stop saying an area will never change because of X Y Z
East New york was rough and still is rough compared to other neighborhoods.
I t appealed to me in 2002 because it was cheap. The apartments were big and it was 35 mins to 34TH street.
Once I saw a guy with a gun chasing another guy across the street. Thinking back I shook my head at my reaction. I did a double take and carried on my merry way. I was late for work.
I never saw anything like that again. I traveled at all hours of the day and night. I never felt unsafe and was never harrased. I was in my early 20s the period in your life where you feel invincible I guess.
I lived in the cheap hood saved my money, traveled the world, then bought a house.
While some of my friends were budgeting to pay that Forrest Hills apartment rent I would pay my land lord 2 months rent and book a trip to Paris.
I didn't have kids and didn't care about the school district. Neither did I care about living in a hip neighborhood.
Good times!
Yep, I know people who still feel unsafe in Harlem so I do remember the skeptics about its potential. But compare today's Harlem to 2002 and before, overall it's safer today by a good amount.
The distance away from the city is the reason why it's the back alley of Brooklyn and Queens. There are no major highways around and subway trains take over 1/2 hour to reach Brooklyn bridge and very poor road conditions and traffic patterns.
What are you talking about.....it takes 20 minutes to reach Lower Manhattan from ENY via the A train....I do it every day.
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What are you talking about.....it takes 20 minutes to reach Lower Manhattan from ENY via the A train....I do it every day.
Some of these people clearly don't live in NYC!
Also Brooklyn and Queens are destinations in and of themselves. Plenty of people WORK in both boroughs, so it's not like everyone has to commute to Manhattan. That seems to be difficult for some to understand.
The distance away from the city is the reason why it's the back alley of Brooklyn and Queens. There are no major highways around and subway trains take over 1/2 hour to reach Brooklyn bridge and very poor road conditions and traffic patterns.
Even today already you don't have to go into Manhattan. Employment and development have accelerated in both Brooklyn and Queens, and there is massive investment in both.
You have old people here who are stuck in the 80s and haven't been to these neighborhoods in a long time. There's massive office building development around Barclay's. Lots of new office buildings in Williamsburg, Dumbo, and Greenpoint plus older building conversion.
Even today already you don't have to go into Manhattan. Employment and development have accelerated in both Brooklyn and Queens, and there is massive investment in both.
You have old people here who are stuck in the 80s and haven't been to these neighborhoods in a long time. There's massive office building development around Barclay's. Lots of new office buildings in Williamsburg, Dumbo, and Greenpoint plus older building conversion.
Believe it or not, many still have no desire to live in, work, or visit these areas. I know some personally.
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