now maybe its just me but isnt jeremy saying in the original post what the last two were saying about not knowing a neigborhood by satelite images? in other words, its was a joke?

Ok. I think one thing that needs to be looked at is that there are many reasons people move to a certain neighborhood. Sure, the brokers look at us as one homogeneous mass. The smattering of people that i know in a ton of neighborhoods throughout this city does not make for a majority, but it’s interesting to hear what the consensus is on why they live where they do. The ones I know in Redhook all say the same thing. They like the inaccessibility. They like that they are removed. While this isn’t for everyone and certainly not me and definitely not a developer or broker it is for them. Like the woods and country are for others.

So, the fact that Robert Moses isolated neighborhoods and that brokers are on never ending quest to gentrify it’s all going to keep developing at whatever rate that it does. That’s is a definite. It’s New York. It’s a beautiful, wonderful, eclectic, and exciting place to live and now I sound like the born and raised NY’er I am.

Red Hook got “isolated” from the rest of Brooklyn when the BQE was built and editorializing here faced a fate similar to parts of the Bronx when the cross Bronx expressway was built as neighborhoods were split by the highways.