Alright, as penance for creating discourse today I want to raise a more fun topic for NYC friends and followers - if you won the Powerball, what neighborhood would you buy property in?
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If it were solely up to me, probably LIC or Astoria But since it's not, probably FiDi
aug 29, 2025, 9:13 pm • 2 0 • view
All of them. Seasonal apts, weekend apts. Cozy, eclectic, modern, historical My desire for a roof deck, prewar, huge windows, surrounded by night life, art, trees, river views, city views, old school, new and more is incongruous with just 1 'hood or home My gawd I miss just strolling around NYC
aug 29, 2025, 10:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn Heights, or the West Village
aug 29, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Upper Washington heights tbh
aug 29, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
brooklyn heights probably
aug 29, 2025, 9:11 pm • 1 0 • view
riverdale
aug 29, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Sunnyside!
aug 29, 2025, 9:10 pm • 2 0 • view
I’d stay right where I am in Morningside Heights but I’d find a way to build a house on top of one of the RSD prewars. And I’d put in a heated lap pool. What? It’s my fantasy, okay?
aug 29, 2025, 9:17 pm • 0 0 • view
i would probably rent something nice in the UES or UWS for good public schools until my kids are in high school, and then long term find the perfect spot to buy and extensively renovate near union square
aug 30, 2025, 9:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I am building a penthouse above Union Pool
aug 30, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm buying one of those mansions in Midwood and giving so much money to the Prospect Park Alliance
aug 29, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm staying in Hamilton Heights, but maybe buying the brownstone from The Royal Tenenbaums
aug 29, 2025, 10:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I love asking this question because every neighborhood in New York has tradeoffs and it’s very fun to see how people weigh them. Me? I’m moving to the East Village.
aug 29, 2025, 9:10 pm • 13 0 • view
I actually would use my Powerball winnings to fix world hunger. But your thing is cool too (East Village no question; adjacent to one of the community gardens. Second place Greenpoint near the ferry)
aug 30, 2025, 9:34 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s funny, there was a time when the West Village was probably the most pleasant neighborhood in the city but boy is that not the case anymore
aug 30, 2025, 9:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Back in the ZIRP days I was able to expense weeklong AirBNBs once a month and I found one in the EV that I returned to every time. Guy had been there 30-40 years and had mastered vertical storage. Best place to walk around and be 27
aug 30, 2025, 9:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I want peace and quiet and floor to ceiling libraries and window seats and huge parks and ivy outside the window so that bit of Park Slope where you find all those things.
aug 29, 2025, 9:43 pm • 2 0 • view
east or west village probably, yeah
aug 29, 2025, 9:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I'd take a place high up in one of those hideous super tall skinny towers mid town because they're empty and nobody would complain about the loud music.
aug 29, 2025, 10:01 pm • 1 0 • view
I came here to say East Village.
aug 29, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I want of those brownstones overlooking the Brooklyn Heights promenade so badly.
aug 29, 2025, 9:12 pm • 5 0 • view
Oh, this is another good answer.
aug 29, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
The one where I live: Prospect Heights. Only complication is that I *love* the apartment I leased earlier this year. If I could find a comparable condo, I'd buy; otherwise, I'd stay where I am, buy a country place, and do a bunch of other interesting/fun stuff with the remainder.
aug 29, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
ex-new yorker curious if the east village is back. cool when I was there but upon visits back it seemed to be... well, not gentrified... but enrichified?
aug 30, 2025, 2:17 am • 0 0 • view
I’m more of a below 14th street kinda guy but just for the real estate it’s gotta be Central Park West or in one of the supertalls just south of the park
aug 29, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I'd maybe go south of Houston tho. Find a tasteful penthouse around Rivington as my NYC hang.
aug 29, 2025, 9:17 pm • 1 0 • view
honestly buying the building i'm in in ridgewood i'm too happy here
aug 29, 2025, 9:11 pm • 1 0 • view
I asked this on Twitter once and the answer I mostly got was “the neighborhood I live in”, which I think is a strong endorsement for how nice NYC is overall
aug 29, 2025, 9:13 pm • 10 0 • view
there are SO many options and maybe i'm not ambitious enough but staying put kicks ass
aug 29, 2025, 9:14 pm • 4 0 • view
one of them great big victorians down by ditmas park
aug 29, 2025, 9:30 pm • 5 0 • view
Many people are saying it
aug 29, 2025, 9:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Here to second that part of Flatbush! So close to the shore! I've walked past that crazy Japanese pagoda house a bunch of times when I've visited friends there.
aug 30, 2025, 11:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I’d try to buy the Pumpkin House, there’s nothing else like it in the city www.6sqft.com/unusual-clif...
aug 29, 2025, 9:25 pm • 1 0 • view