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Back in 2005 and 2006 everyone use to say Brooklyn was dangerous and awful place now fast forward to 2012, 2013ish to present day now everyone is on NYC trend. What happen between 2003 and now that make Brooklyn attractive place to visit and live. The Bronx and Harlem is now becoming cool to hipsters and yuppies.
Back in 2005 and 2006 everyone use to say Brooklyn was dangerous and awful place now fast forward to 2012, 2013ish to present day now everyone is on NYC trend. What happen between 2003 and now that make Brooklyn attractive place to visit and live. The Bronx and Harlem is now becoming cool to hipsters and yuppies.
Back in 2005 and 2006 everyone use to say Brooklyn was dangerous and awful place now fast forward to 2012, 2013ish to present day now everyone is on NYC trend. What happen between 2003 and now that make Brooklyn attractive place to visit and live. The Bronx and Harlem is now becoming cool to hipsters and yuppies.
Pretty simple... People were priced out of Manhattan and still wanted to feel important so in comes Brooklyn. I have a meeting in DUMBO today of all places. I remember when that place was mainly industrial and now it's all chic and expensive.
It started because all the drug dealers are in Williamsburg, just ask JayZ. A lot of movie and rock stars frequently go there for drug runs so eventually they figure why not buy an apt or house in one of the nicer brownstones near the projects so they can have easier assess to cocaine and weed. That was the late 80s and 90s, eventually people came because other wannabe actors with drug habits or want to sleep with stars moved over. There were a lot of prostitutes and drug dealers in the area those years.
It started because all the drug dealers are in Williamsburg, just ask JayZ. A lot of movie and rock stars frequently go there for drug runs so eventually they figure why not buy an apt or house in one of the nicer brownstones near the projects so they can have easier assess to cocaine and weed. That was the late 80s and 90s, eventually people came because other wannabe actors with drug habits or want to sleep with stars moved over. There were a lot of prostitutes and drug dealers in the area those years.
Yeah but if we're talking about the Wall Street types or the tech types with money, a lot of them were pushed out of Manhattan, so they came to Williamsburg. It's a skip and a hop away from Manhattan. Believe me, I remember very well when Williamsburg was still very rough around the edges.
Back in 2005 and 2006 everyone use to say Brooklyn was dangerous and awful
Not quite accurate. 2002/3ish is when the big changes really started to happen but at that point the really artsy types had already been slowly coming Williamsburg since the mid/late 90s. By 2005/6 Williamsburg was already pretty hip...not Whole Foods/Apple store hip like it is today, but it was definitely in the midst of a full-force change.
Brooklyn hasn't been regarded as truly 'dangerous' since like Guilliani's second term...and I think Brooklyn and NYC has pretty much always been considered cool but in different ways. It used to be cool in an urban, gritty way ....now it's more of the homogenized organic hipster vibe which some consider cool but many natives like myself strongly resent.
It started because all the drug dealers are in Williamsburg, just ask JayZ. A lot of movie and rock stars frequently go there for drug runs so eventually they figure why not buy an apt or house in one of the nicer brownstones near the projects so they can have easier assess to cocaine and weed. That was the late 80s and 90s, eventually people came because other wannabe actors with drug habits or want to sleep with stars moved over. There were a lot of prostitutes and drug dealers in the area those years.
Might be one of the most ignorant things I’ve ever read on here and that’s saying a lot. Your post make you look more and more like a shut in who has never left his computer chair.
Like other posters have said people got priced out of manhattan. It was the perfect storm; BK has a “cool” factor, great housing stock, good transportation, close to the city, etc. It was just the right neighborhood at the right time.
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