A Look at Park Slope, Brooklyn | Real Estate, Block by Block | The New York Times
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- Beautiful brownstones and a celebrated park make Park Slope one of New York's most family-friendly--and pricey--neighborhoods.
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A Look at Park Slope, Brooklyn | Real Estate, Block by Block | The New York Times
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All these Block by Block episodes have one theme in common: Gentrification and you can't afford it.
I got priced out of New York City years ago!
That's cause most of Brooklyn used to be pretty sketchy but now it has the best neighborhoods.
Why can’t you?
Ladies and gentlemen, i present to you... Limousine Liberals.
I used to own a carpet cleaning business in the late 80's. A family just bought a brownstone and I was asked to clean some rooms. It was my first time inside a brownstone and I was blown away by the tall ceilings and incredible wood work. The family paid 600k for the brownstone (4 stories). I sold my business in 91 and started looking for an investment property in the area. I found a mixed use brownstone (residential apartments over a store) that needed lots of work. The area was very sketchy back then. Bodegas in almost every corner and drug deals done in the open. I have seen the neighborhood transform dramatically over the years. It's a great place to live and a very safe neighborhood for kids to grow up in.
Avi Pharmd
This is great to hear.
I’m yearning to leave the suburban wasteland.
My family left Park Slope before it got gentrified ( or ruined, depending upon your social status ) We rented but our friends sold their house on Carroll Street between 6t and 7th Avenues, all they could get was 16 thousand! Times have certainly changed!
@@fmartin59 good on u. good luck
Even in the late 80s that property was 600k and needed renovations. WOW!! Park slope has been expensive for a long time. My dad paid 80k for his house in Midwood back then.
Lol those aren't mom's pushing strollers, those are nannies
True, it is built for families... RICH families.
Nah, that’s not true not all. I live there and our rent and everything is not that expensive. Cant say price but house payments all together with rent, water, electricity and other stuff are about $2000 a month
I visited Park Slope in the mid-90s for a friend's wedding and loved it. I love Prospect Park!!!
Must be great to have money 🙁
@coffeeinthemorning how do you have a credit score without a credit card?
@@MisterJunichi - If you can get an installment loan (student loan, car loan, etc.) then you can build credit without a credit card. Riskier but you could be added as an authorized user on another person's card ... say a parent with good credit and a card with no balance. Some utilities will report to the credit agencies (if they don't automatically, you can request it). There are credit card options for people with bad credit/no credit but they offer crazy interest rates and small limits ... not a problem if you are just trying to build credit and never carry a balance. Even with a credit card, follow the simple rule - if you don't have the cash for it then don't buy it (easier to stick to if you can build an emergency only fund before getting a credit card).
coffeeinthemorning yo! to be Honest the rent is from $1000 to more a month but $1000 I Isn’t bad. It’s not that expensive if you want to rent a house (not including electric, water and other stuff)
@coffeeinthemorning I got a college education, I still could never afford to live there! Pretentious bullcrap!
I live right by Park Slope and trust, it is not very 'diverse' as they say.
bumrusherer1985 all of those ways
Racially and economically it is not very diverse at all. In the video they said same-sex couples and hetero couples. That isn't what I would call diverse. bumrusherer1985
Everybody white.
It's full of snotty white people.
That is special. How often does that happen? Not often.
I have the best childhood memories ever this is my old neighborhood I love so much
I love Prospect Park! (Bed-Stuy born and raised)
My immigrant family settled in the Slope during the 50's when my mom was born. I came along in 1979, got to see some of "old" New York and Park Slope , the old block parties in the 80's, the lawlessness of pre 9/11 NY. I grew up outside of New York, only spending Xmas and Summers breaks in Brooklyn until I my twenties during the 2000's, when I lived there for years at 14th St between 8th Avenue and Prospect Park West. The smell when the train door opens at 15th St. Prospect Park West station on the F line takes me back to being seven years old immediately. I remember buying a Christmas tree on 5th avenue in the freezing cold. Good old New York, the old guard is dwindling. Thank you for the upload!
“It’s dynamic, it’s diverse...” Cues in the b-roll of all white school children. This is a joke.
I grew up in park slope in the 60 & 70s. Best memories ever!!! we were all friends and family. We jumped rope, water hydrant would open and we would get wet, we hung out at ARTY’s candy store, play Skellys, stickball, play our boom box music. We would all dance salsa in the streets. Our rent was only $55 we had rent control. I visit my cousin on fifth Ave & President street and it is not the same anymore. It is too YUPPY now. Cafes the bank is a gym the funeral parlor is a restaurant . The bodegas are all gone. I remember the gang fights between the Italians and Puerto Rican’s and Blacks on fifth Avenue. My aunt Rosie started the Garden on President & Fifth Ave and I don’t see her name there. She also started the Coalition call “CHIPS” where she cook and gave people food and clothes. I am glad I still stay in touch with some of the friends I grew up in park slope that still live there. We know the Real Park Slope.
Why are there only ten videos in this series? More, please!
Park Slope the suburbs of Brooklyn.
It’s ok if you’re rich
how I miss the old days good memories born and raised in the slope nothing like
Please please PLEASE stop referring to individual subway lines as one.It's not the BQ or the 2 3. It's the B and Q train or the 2 and 3 train. Good indicator you're NOT from NYC.
My family is from park slope both sides... from Caroll st.. Bergen st.. Dean st.. to Amity st..I miss the area of my youth..
Based on the rent in that area you're just going to live to get up everyday and work to pay rent what good is there to live in a trendy neighborhood when your whole check is going to go to the rent.
D 1
It’s not for blue collar workers anymore.
It’s for upper income people.
@@fmartin59 Yes !!! Now it's for the new "Scrooge McDuck"
Maybe for you
I love park slope!
I was a pastry chef and cook during my training in culinary school in the early 2000 s. at Ozzie's Cafe then -on 5th and Garfield . Park slope at that time was nothing really exciting but any way ..@1:21 what does "slightly crunchy " mean? That's a new one for me.
Im late to your comment so I don't know if you'll see this or if you are still looking for the answer but "slightly crunchy" is referring to the term "granola" which had been coined for middle/upperclass liberals who are very eco-conscious (devoted to organic food, very outdoorsy, etc).
Diverse? Laid back? Uh.. no. It’s an Upper Middle class/wealthy neighborhood with self absorbed privileged people. Maybe 25 years ago it was the neighborhood described in the video.
My husband's great grandparents owned 457 14th street in Park Slope. I think they were the original owners. We still have the original paperwork for the house. Tne papers gives an account of each owner from the very first Dutch settler. Is there a site that would be interested in these papers? There are I think at least 20 of them. My in-laws sold the property in the late 70's. Anyhow, my husband remembers some info of the area and of course we have photos.
90's all day 😎 what a dream to look out the window thinking of you looking out the window. All seems like a real life nightmare to search for you other places but could never find you, guess now you know why I would stare so hard. Hope you & the family are well ❤ bless your children & your childrens children.
Wow they said 4av isn’t pleasant and so happens a lot of minority’s live in that area smh
race bait
You know, they speak in code language. Lol
Facts
God forbid they live near a tire-fix it-place.
Elites smh.
I mean honestly it is. I'm not being racist it's just the truth
When she said "it's diverse" they showed a clip of all white kids lol
I want to live here!
I grew up in the Park Slope of the 1970s. It really did have economic and racial diversity back then. It’s still beautiful but I wouldn’t want to live there now.
Spent many a summer day.fishing at the lake.Thats when the summers ,it seemed to last forever.Riding your bike all the way to Coney Island.Ocean parkway it was a rite of passage for a 10 yr old.So many memories. In as much I don't like the cold ashes in the is not a bad idea.What the hey,it's where I started from. I can hear my mother now ,yelling it's time to eat get up here.Never thought I would that.Stay in touch.
I had to laugh, it's a very family friendly neighborhood. I guess if you family are millionaires!
Exactly......it’s out of reach for the average working person.
These people are clowns, they coming in from wherever pushing their strollers, family friendly ?, this is Brooklyn, ain't nothing family friendly round here
I love in park slope and loveeee it, but I'm about to move to Florida... :(
Oof
don't
Since Prospect Park is half the size of Central Park, Prospect could be the 2nd biggest park in New York (the entire state).
Im just saying dont move to nyc if you feel you need to park your car, a majority of new Yorkers dont even bother to have cars
Defend Brooklyn
Park slope or greeenwhich village is where i wanna live
Built for families....who can afford 850 sq foot floor thru condos in brownstones for over $1,000,000. But don't ever feel too safe...Brooklyn will ALWAYS be Brooklyn son, and yuppies do get popped sometimes!
true but fam there was nothing like the memories from the 80s in the slope kid
You need a grocery cart to get food if you don't have a car, it's dangerous like any city but it looks nice on some streets.
seems like a neighborhood full of karens
You hit the nail on the head as the saying goes. lol! Its not your imagination.
Full of snotty white people.
Prospect Park reminds me of a time out City with in the City, at times I had to remind myself; Am I in Central or Prospect Park, Yeah Brooklyn Baby Bklyn all the way
Park slope is park stroller. I can't wait to swerve with lil baby around BK.
i hate the fact that i would, quite happily, live here.
🤩🤩🤩
Their comments about 4th ave tell me all i need to know about these type of people. The rich killed nyc
Park slope is not diverse at all.
I was in the 90's
My first week in park slope my car got stolen and the bank was robbed. It's terrible there.
Gentrification 😍😍😍
NT are u also going to make an episode of the bronx...does`nt have to be the south...
and whats wrong with the south bronx?
I would like to see a docu about the south bronx, harlem, washington h., queens jamaica , queensbridge-queens and so on...and there`s nothing wrong with DA SOUTH-BRONX !!!
+dino angov absolutely! and I agree lol thats my hometown neighborhood born in Lincoln Hospital (lol)
I really would love to see that
dino angov Its the roughest part of the roughest borough.
I want to live in Park Slope
x_july_o THANKS!!! I thought it was just me!!!
I know who the kid on the thumbnail is! His name is jack and he want to ps.321 with me and we were in the same class in one grade!!
Half the boys at 321 are named Jack.
I knew a jack from 321, he doesn’t look like the boy in the thumbnail though.
How is it diverse when you see all white people talking????? Really???? Most people can't afford living in that neighborhood!!!
Full of all kind of white people and some Asian mail ordered brides for white men.
I recognize thls guy. Geoge costanza went to his house to apologize for getting him fired a.nd kramer left the door open and his cat ran away laquita mew
Gee whiz we almost lived in prospect park back in the 1950s and 1960s, I would take my children to the park a few times a week...I grew up in park slope, it was so great back then, every street had dozens of kids to play with, growing up every either knew your father, brother, uncle, went to school with your sister, knew your grandma, it is very different now, trendy, no one knew your family, no more moms hanging out the window and shouting your kids name to come in for supper...street lamps came on and all the kids disappear into the house to sit on the sofa together and watch this small tv screen...the whole family sat together at the kitchen tablei to eat and talk about the day...the moms would get together during the day for a cup of tea at your kitchen table, friends mother and father were called mr or mrs, never ever call them by their first name, on Sunday we wore our Sunday clothes and shoes to church, come home and change to regular old clothes go out and play. It would rain or snow and we would run in the house, dad would always say, what are you a cream puff, you ain’t gonna melt.....yes the old park slope was great.
Know what.you mean lived there in the 50s .Holy Name ,Sanders Theatre. Trolley barns were there across from Greenwood cemetery. Stick ball ,what a great trip!
MY GRANDPARENTS ARE BURIED IN GREENWOOD CEMETERY ...I MARRIED MY FIRST HUSBAND IN HOLY NAME, I REMEMBER THE SANDERS THEATER, GOING WITH FRIENDS FOR THE SATURDAY MATINEE, BUYING A LITTLE BAG OF POTATO CHIPS AND SHARING IT WITH A GROUP OF FRIENDS....I WILL TELL YOU A SECRET, ssshhhh WHEN MY SISTER DIED 10 YEARS AGO, I PLANNED ON TAKING HER ASHES TO BROOKLYN AND SPRINKLING IN PROSPECT PARK, MY BROTHER LOVED TO IDEA, HAD TO WAIT TILL IT WAS WARMER THERE...2 MONTHS LATE MY BROTHER DIED, SO WHEN I TOOK THEIR ASHES TO NEW YORK...SOME IN MY FAMILY WORKED FOR THE PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE, THEY ARRANGED FOR A GEM CAR AND TOOK US TO A SPOT ON THE LAKE, WE SPRINKED THEM IN THE LAKE AND PUT ROSE PETALS FLOATING AROUND THE ASHES.....IT WAS SO PEACE FULL AND QUITE....I KNOW THEY WOULD BE VERY HAPPY WITH THAT, THE PARK WAS ALWAYS THE MOST WONDERFUL PLACE TO BE....
bit too pricey & yuppie for my taste.....
The rent there is 3000-5000 dollars lol
No it ain’t
PS some folks Work to Live & others Live to Work. Time and Changes is not always seen as Progress for All, Greed vs Needs
“family friendly neighborhood” golly gee i wonder why it’s family friendly
They forget they're in Brooklyn
I was lucky enough to live there renting a room near 7th Ave on Garfield Place for a while in the 1990s. Have to admit it was a seeming idyllic place for someone fresh out of college seeking a new life, except for the Karens and the fact the place was not very ethnically diverse. There were people of color that lived there, but they were rather affluent, and far and few between. My landlord who was a 50 year old black psychologist also lived in the gorgeous brownstone, but used to tell me about the guy across the street who called her racial epithets every now and then. He was there before the yuppies moved in apparently, and was likely jealous of her. She moved to Florida selling her home for nearly 2 million dollars sometime after 2001. Looks like not much has changed though. Sigh...
+Madore hi
Very Homogenous neighborhood indeed.....
Even tho they only came out five years ago, the tone and attitude of these videos has aged so horribly
I was born in the Slope, and lived there for 30 years, but not since 1981. I go back to from time to time when visiting friends and relatives. It has changed, and not for the better. The hipsters and socialists have ruined it.
left leaning doesnt mean progressive always
Their whole lives are defined by what they consume, where and what brand.
Talk about shallow people!
Park slope is not diverse at all. It is 70% white and being LGBTQ is not really diverse
I would say %85
Park Sleep 😴
it
"It's a very left-leaning progressive neighborhood. . ." So much so that any knowledge of real economics has been banned from Park Slope!
Where are the LEAST "progressive"/left wing areas in New York?
Maybe the working class italian neighborhoods ? I don't know, just taking a guess. I heard they don't like outsiders though.
Sorel366 Cheers.
Staten Island-only borough to go for Trump. And there are several other neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and even a tiny part of Manhattan that go Republican.
But, honestly, you're better off in Suffolk, Putnam, Duchess, or the counties (in Jersey and Connecticut) that are 50mi+ away from Manhattan if you're looking for Republican run New York.
Your kind I think will be happy in Staten Island and Long Island, I think. Maybe Bensonhurse as well. : )
tear all those brownstones down
All these Block by Block episodes have one theme in common: Gentrification and you can't afford it.
I want to live here!
I did, before they ruined it!