NYC - Blue Hours from Brooklyn Heights Promenade and Dumbo vantage.
Oct 5, 2022 22:30:11 #
Oct 6, 2022 13:27:24 #
Rick from NY wrote:
It has changed indeed. Now one of the most expensive neighborhoods in NYC. unaffordable to all but the very rich. Gentrification with a capital G!
Had a basement apartment out in Bensonhurst back then, that also has probably changed since then ,it was a safe neighborhood at the time, no crime, nice place.
Oct 6, 2022 13:34:04 #
srfmhg wrote:
Beautiful set Saigon. You really bring out the best side of my old hometown! I lived in the projects on the FDR Drive just north of the Williamsburgh Bridge on 7th street - not very photogenic.
Wow...Mark, you lived in Brooklyn then? It has changed so much the last 10 years, the property around Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights Promenade are untouchable now, you have to move down to 7th, 8th, 9th st. to get a condo; but it still costs more than $1M easily.
Oct 6, 2022 13:34:29 #
Oct 6, 2022 13:36:31 #
Susan yamakawa wrote:
I am glad the beautiful sky wasn’t waisted😂👍😊💕
Thanks Susan. We were just lucky on our first evening in NYC and were at the right place, the right time. That is photography all about.
Oct 6, 2022 13:37:50 #
One Rude Dawg wrote:
Had a basement apartment out in Bensonhurst back then, that also has probably changed since then ,it was a safe neighborhood at the time, no crime, nice place.
You are right. I have a friend in Atlanta who used to live in Brooklyn around that area....
Oct 6, 2022 13:50:38 #
Rick from NY
Loc: Sarasota FL
One Rude Dawg wrote:
Had a basement apartment out in Bensonhurst back then, that also has probably changed since then ,it was a safe neighborhood at the time, no crime, nice place.
Funny you mention Bhurst. That is one area of Brooklyn that really never went into decline, even in the 60’s and 70’s. I always attributed that to the fact that Bhurst was always a middle class community with strong ethic family roots, mostly Italian. To that extent, it didn’t get hit with the economic and cultural differences that other Brooklyn neighborhoods (and NYC in general) did. While people were anxious to get out of Williamsburg, Bushwick , East New York, etc, folks in Bensonhurst always seemed satisfied to remain. At least that was my read of the situationover the years. My people were from Bath Beach, just below Bhurst. To this day, im still a “dems, dese and does” and “toity tird and tird” guy. Few here in FL are unable to guess where i am from.
Oct 6, 2022 14:18:10 #
Rick from NY
Loc: Sarasota FL
Saigon wrote:
Wow...Mark, you lived in Brooklyn then? It has changed so much the last 10 years, the property around Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights Promenade are untouchable now, you have to move down to 7th, 8th, 9th st. to get a condo; but it still costs more than $1M easily.
Brooklyn Heights was always upscale near the Promenade, butnothing like today. In 1969, i had an opportunity to buy a brownstone on Henry Street between Hunt and Jerolemon Sts for less than 90,000. Probably worth $5mil today. Oh well!
Oct 6, 2022 20:17:22 #
Rick from NY wrote:
Brooklyn Heights was always upscale near the Promenade, butnothing like today. In 1969, i had an opportunity to buy a brownstone on Henry Street between Hunt and Jerolemon Sts for less than 90,000. Probably worth $5mil today. Oh well!
You would have bought HD stocks in the 80s then.Oct 6, 2022 21:21:18 #
Rick from NY
Loc: Sarasota FL
Saigon wrote: You would have bought HD stocks in the 80s then.
You would have bought HD stocks in the 80s then.Woulda, coulda shoulda!
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