park slope vs jersey city (paulus hook)

Off the bat I can tell you Jersey City Exchange place is wide open, newly constructed (last 6-8 years) and has a wonderful feel to it. I live nearby and it has everything you need in terms for stores and has some selection of restaurants (mostly chain tho). If you are young I doubt it will be enough because people who want the nightlife also want to live in Manhattan. As far as investment, I don't think it would be all that bad. The views are fantastic... I just watched Sunday's fireworks from there... beautiful. if you come from the suburbs, then you'll love it esp. if you have your car and can do what you want. If you are moving from Manhattan and you aren't ready to give up some "stuff" only New York city can offer, then it may feel a little lacking.

Since you are considering Park slope, maybe youre not huge on Manhattan nightlife. Park Slope has an existing reputation and people like it. I hear it's the go-to place in Brooklyn. I'm not a huge fan because I think you either have shitty little places that young people get just to be in Park Slope, or very expensive brownstones (which if you can afford then great!). I don't see the middle of the road like I do in Jersey City, especially for the quality, open air feel, and cleanliness of J.C. With the right money (a lot), Park Slope is very nice though. There are some new constructions, but they are on the fridnges of the traditional park slope and you'd have to take a bet that Park slope really expands there.

saiyar---you are a blowhard with little real knowledge of what you write

please post on the comparison between princeton and hoboken studios

if you want the feel of community, lots of stores that you can walk to, plenty of restaurants and bars, and an enormous park, you want Park Slope.

if you want new and shiny where you'll have to drive or train into manhattan for anything good, you want JC. just start walking in JC and see how quickly the beauty of new turns into the hell of old.

can anyone offer comments comparing a house in appalachia with a chelsea seminary block townhouse?

im trying to figure out where to buy once i leave jersey city

thanks everyone

Has anyone seen 401 8th Ave #53 in Park Slope? Listing is here: http://streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/534365-coop-401-8th-avenue-park-slope-brooklyn

Just wanted some thoughts.

The biggest price factor to live in JC over Park Slope is the avoidance of having to pay NYC Income tax - saves you appx. 4% of your taxable income. Everyone I know who lives in JC has a car so if that is important to you many of the properties by the waterfront offer garage parking. But getting anywhere on that PATH train on the weekends is a waiting game. And you don't have to go too far off the waterfront to see the JC that makes the nightly news.

park slope

"And you don't have to go too far off the waterfront to see the JC that makes the nightly news."

Unlike say, Gowanus or Lefferts Gardens?

malthus, Gowanus, sans projects, does not make nightly news anymore... wait it does, with the art scene. don't forget that the projects have been surrounded by cops for almost 20 yrs, so nothing too interesting happens there either.

park slope to lefferts gardens is like comparing JC to Short Hills. it takes that much time to get to there via walking or trains as it does driving in NJ.

Really? And mapquest tells me it is 20 miles from Short Hills to JC. Lefferts Gardens is across the park from Park Slope.

And, unfortunately Gowanus is not sans projects. Neither is Jersey City for that matter. At least they put away the drug czar who terrorized the Gowanus projects a couple of months ago:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/drug_thug_goes_up_life_xITNLFYLifuH7eS48ugLAM

But actually, you are making my point. The OP asked about Paulus Hook, a particular neighborhood in JC. The comments on it have been that it is at the same time new and shiny and full of crime. That part of JC is neither.