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You must be thinking of a place called Manhattan, which at the end of the day is what fuels all of us. Aside from perhaps, Downtown Flushing.
No one doubts Manhattan holds the central business districts and primary retail huns for the region. What I’m interested is what these secondary hubs have especially since there has been so much development. Perhaps someone more familiar with these areas can chime in. Certainly downtown Brooklyn has a large tertiary education presence, municipal emplpyment, retail, performance venues, and private sector employment which drive all that foot traffic.
I know LIC has PS1, Scupture Center, LaGuardia community college, JetBlue headquarters, financial service backoffices, and the CUNY Law School in and around it along with the high-rise residential that’s been built, so I assume someone must be familiar with the neighborhod activity and which streets are good to take a look at.
No one doubts Manhattan holds the central business districts and primary retail huns for the region. What I’m interested is what these secondary hubs have especially since there has been so much development. Perhaps someone more familiar with these areas can chime in. Certainly downtown Brooklyn has a large tertiary education presence, municipal emplpyment, retail, performance venues, and private sector employment which drive all that foot traffic.
I know LIC has PS1, Scupture Center, LaGuardia community college, JetBlue headquarters, financial service backoffices, and the CUNY Law School in and around it along with the high-rise residential that’s been built, so I assume someone must be familiar with the neighborhod activity and which streets are good to take a look at.
It appears no one actually living in these neighborhoods today knows them better than me after all. I've been hanging out at these waterfront piers since I was a little kid up to no good. I've seen all the development and changes take place since day 1. Downtown Brooklyn was once upon a time a primary hub, where as LIC was an industrial powerhouses. You are trying to compare two places that started off from two different footings.
Where is the heart of Long Island City? Where are the streets busiest with people, shops, etc.? Vernon used to have a bunch of shops, but that was all old rowhomes with commercial on the bottom. Is there a new commercial strip with all those high-rises?
I've lived in LIC a block north of Queens Plaza since 2012. I guess that was the very start of the mega-development. Heart of LIC is still Vernon Blvd. 50th Ave to 46 Ave. The area between Court Square and Queens Plaza is really picking up though.
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Where do people in LIC shop? Do they take a ride into Manhattan or go to Astoria? There still not many commercial stores in LIC?
There's still nowhere to shop in LIC. When I want to shop for clothes/shoes I go to Steinway Street, Queens Place/Queens Center Mall, then Austin Street in that order.
I work in Williamsburg but never go to North Brooklyn for any other reason. Only go to Manhattan at the request of friends.
Just curious, do Brooklynites say "I'm going downtown" in reference to Downtown Brooklyn, since they may hardly ever go into Manhattan, or is Manhattan so universally "downtown" that calling anything else downtown would just be too confusing?
Just curious, do Brooklynites say "I'm going downtown" in reference to Downtown Brooklyn, since they may hardly ever go into Manhattan, or is Manhattan so universally "downtown" that calling anything else downtown would just be too confusing?
Yes, if they're in Brooklyn when saying it
Natives do at least
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Covid aside, downtown Brooklyn definitely seemed like the most active and bustling of these three in 2020 though last I was in downtown Jersey City was early November. That NYU expansion made a notable difference though that certainly didn't last very long.
Passed through downtown Brooklyn on my way to an event in Fort Greene Park this weekend and can say that downtown Brooklyn is in full swing. I passed by what I assumed are a bunch of NYU hypebeasts from abroad, so that's certainly playing a strong part in the change. I think the presence of the university and proximity to some very bustling neighborhoods probably puts downtown Brooklyn on top, though I guess it makes more sense to say that these places serve very different purposes.
It feels like to me that the Jersey Waterfront and LIC are a lot more similar to each other than they are to downtown Brooklyn.
Passed through downtown Brooklyn on my way to an event in Fort Greene Park this weekend and can say that downtown Brooklyn is in full swing. I passed by what I assumed are a bunch of NYU hypebeasts from abroad, so that's certainly playing a strong part in the change. I think the presence of the university and proximity to some very bustling neighborhoods probably puts downtown Brooklyn on top, though I guess it makes more sense to say that these places serve very different purposes.
It feels like to me that the Jersey Waterfront and LIC are a lot more similar to each other than they are to downtown Brooklyn.
Brooklyn was barely affected by COVID. In fact, I would argue that Brooklyn saw an influx of Manhattanites who no longer cared about being close to the office and sought out larger dwellings in Brooklyn.
Sorry ,don't prefer any place that is one step from " ewwww..... yuk ".
I was born,raised ,worked, retired and still living in N.Y.C.
You can't pay me enough to regularly visit areas of congestion, noise,
over priced everything, short on parking and generally not eye appealing.
Maybe it's an adventure for the young as I once , enjoyed
the night time strolls along the Bowery,Village, all the grimy places.
No longer.
Quiet, nature and safety.......................the typical old person boring stuff for me.
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