By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:53:48 +0000

I’d take Troy too, most importantly for the cost of living. It really strikes a nerve, having moved last year to Brooklyn from Albany. NY is a city for the young and the rich. Rental prices have skyrocketed in neighborhoods that are too cool for people like me, such as Williamsburg and Cobble Hill. I look around and don’t understand how all these people can afford to live here.

By: mub

mub — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:27:16 +0000

Great article ,Kevin. I have firends that live in Park Slope( 3rd St just off 7th Ave). and I visit them at least twice a year for the last 2 dozen years. I love all the things you mentioned. WHen they come to Troy, they think we are a bit of heaven too. The thing they seem to envy most is the space we have.
One of my best visits to Brooklyn was about 12 years ago between Christmas and New Years. While there we had 12 inches of snow. Unlike up here , rather than hunkering down and everyone staying in doors, people hit the streets. Like lemmings, thousands headed to Prospect Park( we did too). I saw more sleighs on the street in Brooklyn then I ever did up here. Parents bundled up the kids to take them shopping
pulling them along 7th Ave to shop of go for hot chocolate. My friends now have a 22 year old son and it was fund to watch him grow up a city kid. I think you will too. Park Slope has one of the best elementary schools,on 7th Ave, in the City. Your nephew should do well there.

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