Williamsburg Makes Way for New ... Rentals?

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Nice. How many years do you think it'll take those terminally empty condos to turn to rentals?

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Wow, you are so out of the loop.
There are a whole bunch of new buildings in Williamsburg going rental those days, some of them were supposed to be condos, and some are being build straight to rental.
Here you have one that was recently changed to rental http://www.aptsandlofts.com/index.cfm?page=searchbuilding&id=1022
And I guess there are a lot more like this.
You gotta be more out there editors.

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Wow, you are so out of the loop on this.
There are a whole bunch of new rental buildings coming up in Williamsburg, some were supposed to be condos, while some are being build straight o rental.
here you have one building that was build for condos, but went rental recently http://www.aptsandlofts.com/index.cfm?page=searchbuilding&id=1022
And I am sure there are a lot more like this.
You have to be more out there curbed editors.

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$1700 sounds cheap for a 2 bedroom. I can't find 326 South First on their website. I wonder if it's a true 2 bedroom or what.

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326 south 1st is really 145 borinquen on the treetop website. look at the picture on the website.

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maybe they'll be small 2-BR apartments - with nice (new) finishes, they can't be very large at that price. i'm curious what the developers are doing with the ground-floor retail spaces. right now there's a restaurant in one of them and a huge duct from the kitchen runs all the way to the roof - not so attractive - can only imagine the greasy kitchen smells.

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hipsters don't care about greasy kitchen smells. great prices.

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I am sure that the developer is planning on renting the ground floor vacant retail out. A good hangout place like a coffee shop would be nice in that spot.

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I can now rest easy that all those dweeby, slack shouldered, trustfundbaby hipsters who will be dislocated by the monstrosities of Kent Avenue will always have a place to sleep at night. Phew!

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Will be exclusively marketed by aptsandlofts.com. aptsandlofts.com will also exclusively be marketing 188 S 3.

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Trusftfund hipsters!! arhgghh! HATE THEm. transplants. ohio!!! Of course, it's the trustfund kids who really benefit from affordable housing.

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Anything in that South 1st building will be an improvement over the smack dealers and Saturday night bar shootings that currently plague that property. Somehow I doubt these proverbial "trust fund kids" will be willing to walk upstairs in the one of the most prolific drug spots in East Williamsburg, but maybe I'm overestimating trust fund kids. (Given the popularity of that term around here, you'd think trust funds were like savings accounts--how many trust beneficiaries do you really think live in Dominican tenements?)

By the way, Treetop lists that building as 145 Borinquen Place. Why the de-ethnicization?

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DE-ETHNICIZATION!!! Williamsburg is no longer ONLY a spanish hotspot...look around. If it can be called South 1st I am all for it! Rather say that I live on South 1st than Borinquen. That sounds like a street in Dominican Republic.

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Post #12 - do you buy the your ganja in this building.is that why you are upset that it is being renovated.

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13: I am looking around, and it looks pretty seriously Dominican.

14: Perhaps my post wasn't clear on this, but I'm pleased to see the building renovated. And in regards to your inquiry about my weed purchases, I buy my kind buds from your older brother.

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$1700 sounds cheap to me - these must be very small, possibly not "real" 2BRs. could also be cheap because borinquen is a traffic corridor. consider also: the halfway house down the street.

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wow, this site is so depressing. i guess this proves the saying "haters are here to hate". you guys do it awfully well.

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I live across the street from this building and I've never seen any drug deals or anything shady, even with my 3-4x a day/night dog-walking. Other than the fact that its kind of an ugly area, it seems safe to me. There is a halfway house on the street, but the way I see it that makes it safer - the last thing those guys want to do is get into any more trouble. Plus there are cameras all over the outside of their building monitoring everything all the time.

This little area of Williamsburg is still definitely very Dominican and also very affordable compared to other areas.

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What are you talking about? Borinquen is not dominican it's from puerto rico hello!!!before you say something at least know what your talking about.