Boston's latest Brooklyn

On why you shouldn't use "Brooklyn" to refer to "elitist" "hipster" neighborhoods: http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/brooklyn_reporting_elitism_hipster.php

Unless and until there is a spur off of either the Red Line or Green Line (Take the A-train, baby!) to Watertown Square, it will be Watertown as it has been for decades.

As for the development, I think that they are a bit optimistic on those rents and that this project is being undertaken too far into the current cycle for that location. I wish them luck, however, and hope that they will be respectful. That's a good little neighborhood over there.

(N.B. - if the developers are thinkers, they'll involve some people like the Airasians, who have deep Watertown roots/connections and an existing presence in that neighborhood.)

That's a stumper. However, I live on Winsor Avenue, so maybe it could become Windsor Terrace (and the street I used to live on might qualify for Sheepshead Bay, if the Armenian population doesn't object strenuously to being analagous Russians.) Otherwise, it's a huge stretch.

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No T access = not gonna happen

Watertown, it's just like Brooklyn! Minus the diversity, public transit infrastructure, world-renowned park space, and walking access to a major city!

Developers are hilarious in their efforts to re-brand existing areas into the image of an already existing area. If the subway ran to Watertown, it could potentially become the Somerville of the 2020s. As it currently stands, it'll just be Watertown with a few more townhouses.

Tresca Eating Place alone!

... and run the 70 and 70A on a half-hour apiece, 15-minutes apart schedule.

Which the T doesn't want and can't afford to do.

The 71 down Mt. Auburn is reliable, tends to be every 10-15 minutes during the day, and we use it. The 70 runs on some unpredictable schedule, the 70A is like once an hour 5 minutes after one of the 70s, and gets cancelled all the freaking time.

And yes, I have the app on my phone.

Right now most of the residential development has been in the Pleasant Street Corridor, where I live; geographically, that's over by Russo's. We've had about 1000 apartment/condo units added in the past 5 years (Repton Place, Mill Creek, whatever that thing opposite Gore Place's Farm is called this week, RiverBend in the old HartzMason spot, another set of townhouses opposite Green/Myrtle, and a new project going up between Bacon and Howard).

The only bus that serves that area is the 558 express (crosses into Nonantum at Bridge) that runs maybe once an hour during rush hour.

No way will Watertown EVER be like Brooklyn. DTZ must be a bunch of wankers. Figures; it'll end up like some of the office buildings on Pleasant Street (Riverfront Lofts cough cough) that had to be converted to condos.

Brooklyn? Please, it's as bougie as you can stand, all 35 year olds who re-cap old episodes of Saved by the Bell and engage in city-side 1900s LARPing. The real hip new area is a dark hole in the middle of the street that descends not into our own earth, but into a another realm entirely. Come to the hole!

"Boston's Brooklyn"

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