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I’ve been hearing people talking about Staten Island being the new Boro Park and Flatbush combo. Supposedly over 15 young frum families from Brooklyn recently bought houses and there were a few articles about the trend recently (I saw on in AMI magazine and the Flatbush Jewish Journal this past week).
I know the housing prices are much cheaper and it’s pretty close to Brooklyn and the City but what about the bridge tolls, the community, shuls?
The community is b”H bustling with growth from all sides and moving into stagnating frum communities to breath life into them.
An important characteristic of the frum areas of Brooklyn is that rich and poor live in the same neighborhood (even if the rich have better houses). Staten Island doesn’t offer the same possibility since much of it is zoned for a more burgeois class of resident than Brooklyn.
akuperma: There is nothing preventing building lower middle income housing in an upper middle income zoned neighborhood.
Akuperma, what you are trying to at is that while there are no apartment houses, there are two family homes that offer rentals
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So in the future, the rich will live in Staten Island, and the Poor in Brooklyn? Very plausible! If you can afford a big two-story house in a quiet neighborhood, why stay in crowded Brooklyn?
Isn’t Staten Island a risk for flooding? Isn’t that why it’s so cheap?
Staten Island isnt cheap, the only reason is cheaper than Brooklyn is because the commute is longer.
When people triple park on Victory Blvd and block every driveway it will become Borough Park, until then it is not
Houses are quite a bit cheaper.
As a resident the toll over the Verrazona bridge is in the $3 range and cheaper if you are carpooling. Shopping, parking, schools, shuls are accommodating and PLEASE DO NOT TURN into a Flatbush-Boro Park kehilla. We like to think of Staten Island more as a Far Rockaway/Queens kehilla.
Bklynmom is a Fraud!!!
She lives on Staten Island
bklynmom, i have the s.i. resident rate for ezpass and i pay $6. (tho i havent used it recently and i think the prices were lowered to 5.50) how do you pay $3?
I’d love to move out there. Can any one tell me more about schools, shuls, any minyan factories? any kosher supermakrets open till midnight?
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