Ryan’s lease is expiring on July 1st. In the end, we decided to stay in this apartment. Originally, Ryan was looking forward to moving to midtown due to the falling rent prices. However, even then, you aren’t going to get the amount of space you do in Brooklyn. You just won’t. We looked around Washington Heights in the 175-160s, and found very nice spacious apartments. However, the space is around the same, the price was a little loftier, and the moving costs were daunting. The commute would be the same for me, and we didn’t feel anything compelling drawing us. It would the same deal as we have now, just on the other side of town.
Sure there are some positives, such as yellow cabs will actually drop us off. (They are scared of crossing any sort of bridge, usually) We would be close to a lot of Ryan’s cohorts. There are other train options, other than the “L.”
Those things weren’t enough to drive us away. In the end, we negotiated the rent with the landlord to something more appropriate for the current market. He was reasonable, fixed our sink, and changed the other name of the lease. Some of the positives of Brooklyn is the unique favor, the up and coming gentrification, and general demographic is young kids. In the end, last week, we celebrated the decision by going to our local favorite pizza place, Roberta’s, where they cook the oven in a real huge iron oven. (You know, like Taboon, any place with a huge old oven is a fav of mine. Also in the outside seating, there is an old car that’s been gutted as a mini garden.)
They had a mouth watering special of ricotta, mozarella, prosciutto, topped with truffle oil. The whole thing was cheesy, without being over powering (surprisingly) and definitely didn’t disappoint.
Last time I blogged about this place, I complained about it no longer being BYOB. That is still a bummer, but they have a cute bar now, with a wide and reasonable bar list. They have several beer options for around $4 and a sparkling wine option for $6. Of course it goes up.
We shared the pizza with some prosecco, toasted to staying in the area, and promised ourselves that we will take advantage of our residency and discover more Brooklyn restaurants in the future.
If you haven’t been, it is definitely worth making the trip out.
