According to its resident blogger, Sheepshead Bay is way better than Bushwick, you know, what with all the latter neighborhood’s clutter of arts and culture, proximity to the big bad city, and massive lack of non-Russians-only bars. And though Ned doesn’t realize it, rents in Bushwick are not significantly higher than his hood. As for Bushwick’s “train ride [being] only about 20 minutes shorter” than Sheepshead Bay’s, well, that about 70% shorter, buddy, and we get to Union Square or the LES; you go to FiDi. SB sounds great if you’re a recently broke “going-out shirt”-wearing Wall Streeter who doesn’t quite want to make the jump to Staten Island or Jersey, or if you care about your easy access to South Brooklyn’s many Uzbeki restaurants. Not a bad thing, but certainly not “a much better place to live.”

Related Posts