Thought this was a great little read for FUN FACT FRIDAY!
Brooklyn's neighborhoods are rapidly changing. This article is absolutely fitting to the hike in prices!!!!
Looking for an apartment in this city is almost like trying to survive in a Saw film—you can try as hard as you want to beat the system, but ultimately you're going to end up with a mold-filled bathroom and only one foot. Even trying to pin down a location is impossible, what with all the Bedwicks and Jefftowns and Rambos infiltrating the real estate lexicon. To mock this, some joker on Reddit crafted a perfect Real Estate Broker Map explaining why your broker took you all the way to Dyker Heights to look at an apartment listed in South Williamsburg.Obviously this isn't a real broker-mandated map, but it's not as far from the truth as one might think. A quick perusal of available apartments listed on Craigslist shows one $3600/month three-bed advertised in "E. Williamsburg...Off The L. Train Jefferson Stop." Not Williamsburg! Another listing shows a $2400 three-bed in "Prime E.Williamsburg/Bushwick" located right off the L train—at Bushwick-Aberdeen, which is a teensy bit far from that coveted 11211 zip.Of course, the city's real estate scene is constantly shifting, and brokers have a limited window left to milk everything out of Williamsburg that they can. After all, it's only a matter of time before a Sunnyside listing lands you a garage apartment in Nassau County.
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