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However it's one hell of a long commute to manhattan. Also South Brooklyn is very homogeneous. Transplants won't fit to well there.
It depends how deep in South Brooklyn. If you count Midwood as South Brooklyn it's not bad, especially on Weekdays when the B train is running. Coney Island to Manhattan is rough, though.
South Brooklyn is very mixed overall. I don't think there are any South Brooklyn neighborhoods that are homogenous, save for a few outliers maybe.
It might not be appealing to transplants in the same way as Park Slope, but I'm sure there are plenty of people there who transplanted from other states, and there are definitely people there who transplanted from other countries.
I think the whole "transplant vs native" thing is quite silly, there are many New York born people who act like stereotypical hipsters/yuppies, and there are many transplants who don't stand out.
It depends how deep in South Brooklyn. If you count Midwood as South Brooklyn it's not bad, especially on Weekdays when the B train is running. Coney Island to Manhattan is rough, though.
South Brooklyn is very mixed overall. I don't think there are any South Brooklyn neighborhoods that are homogenous, save for a few outliers maybe.
The B train doesn't really stop in Midwood.
It stops at Newkirk, which is really Kensington/Ditmas Park, not Midwood, and then again at Kings Highway, which is the very southern edge of Midwood, really more Gravesend/Sheepshead Bay.
Agreed, though, that the B train being express is a faster ride into Manhattan. However, even so, it's really a good hour door to door from Midwood/Gravesend on the B to midtown Manhattan, or slightly more than an hour.
I also agree that South Brooklyn is not homogenous.
Actually it's very diverse, largely immigrants from all over the world.
The B train doesn't really stop in Midwood.
It stops at Newkirk, which is really Kensington/Ditmas Park, not Midwood, and then again at Kings Highway, which is the very southern edge of Midwood, really more Gravesend/Sheepshead Bay.
Agreed, though, that the B train being express is a faster ride into Manhattan. However, even so, it's really a good hour door to door from Midwood/Gravesend on the B to midtown Manhattan, or slightly more than an hour.
I also agree that South Brooklyn is not homogenous.
Actually it's very diverse, largely immigrants from all over the world.
Oops I forgot which stops the B train skipped, Midwood wasn't the best example but I used it since it's the Northernmost neighborhood that I would consider to be South Brooklyn.
But yeah South Brooklyn is far from homogenous, it probably contains some of the most diverse neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
And not only is it ethnically diverse, but it's also economically diverse.
It depends how deep in South Brooklyn. If you count Midwood as South Brooklyn it's not bad, especially on Weekdays when the B train is running. Coney Island to Manhattan is rough, though.
South Brooklyn is very mixed overall. I don't think there are any South Brooklyn neighborhoods that are homogenous, save for a few outliers maybe.
It might not be appealing to transplants in the same way as Park Slope, but I'm sure there are plenty of people there who transplanted from other states, and there are definitely people there who transplanted from other countries.
I think the whole "transplant vs native" thing is quite silly, there are many New York born people who act like stereotypical hipsters/yuppies, and there are many transplants who don't stand out.
Agreed and agreed. You can't make assumptions about where people will fit in. I'm sure there are transplants working in schools in South Brooklyn. And in social services and the hospitals. I'm sure there are transplants working at the NY Aquarium in South Brooklyn. And you are right there are lots of immigrants in South Brooklyn.
Agreed and agreed. You can't make assumptions about where people will fit in. I'm sure there are transplants working in schools in South Brooklyn. And in social services and the hospitals. I'm sure there are transplants working at the NY Aquarium in South Brooklyn. And you are right there are lots of immigrants in South Brooklyn.
There are transplants working in schools, hospitals,etc, in South Brooklyn.
But the question is: do they live in South Brooklyn?
I do (in some ways I could be considered a transplant), but honestly, I'm alone among my friends, none of whom live further south in Brooklyn than Kensington/Ditmas Park. Honestly, that seems like the unofficial dividing line.
Personally I prefer to live in an immigrant and/or working class neighborhood (I am one of the few native born Americans in my apartment building), but most transplants don't.
Unless one is an immigrant from somewhere (in particular the former Soviet Union - South Brooklyn is really predominately Russian in many/most neighborhoods), or an Orthodox Jew (even an American Orthodox Jew), South Brooklyn holds little appeal for most people, especially most transplants.
An exception to the "few native born Americans" theory, is the Syrian Jewish community in Midwood/Gravesend (most of whom are NOT immigrants - most of their ancestors came to NYC as much as 100 years ago), but they are firmly entrenched in a stable community in South Brooklyn, and show no signs of leaving any time soon.
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