New York – Brooklyn, New York has been ranked the second most costly place to reside in the nation, trumped only by Manhattan, according to a study conducted by the Council for Community and Economic Research based in Washington, DC. Trailing Brooklyn are Honolulu, San Francisco, San Jose, Queens, and Stamford, Connecticut. The study ranked 300 US cities based on costs incurred by “mid-management households” for prescription drugs, grocery prices, utilities, transportation and housing.
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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle writes (http://bit.ly/Tt2weZ) that housing in Brooklyn costs more than three times the national average. Assuming the number 100 is indicative of the national average, Brooklyn ranks 183.4 overall with the following breakdown: 129.9 in grocery prices; 126.4 in utilities; 104 in transportation costs; 111.1 in healthcare; and an astounding 344.7 in housing. While Northeast cities and California suffer from exorbitant housing costs, high food prices are the main issue in Hawaii and Alaska. Cities such as Erie, Pennsylvania or Charlottesville, Virginia were found to be average American cities.
In response to the study’s findings, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz said, “We are thrilled that so many successful men and women, particularly in professional fields, have chosen to live here . . . but we are also mindful that Brooklyn must never be a place of only the very rich or the very poor.”
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce President Carlo Scissura added, “As Brooklynites, we want to be Number 1 in everything, but I don’t think we want to be Number 1 or 2 in this survey. We want to keep the middle class here. We don’t want them to leave.”
And we shall continue living in Brooklyn regardless of price or difficulty, it’s the land of our ancestors…… Nebech
Thankfully we have the Kollel store and Moishe’s to help keep the cost of food down.
Pittsburgh has a nice, safe, walkable Jewish community surrounded by two large parks. We have about 8 shuls, a kollel, kosher grocery, kosher bakery, kosher restaurant, yeshivos, etc. Plenty of room for more Jews, and the cost of housing is very low. So if anyone wants to escape Brooklyn, I think it would be a good choice!
Marty Marko, we are surely not rich, we are hardworking middle-class, law abiding citizens. Just cuz 85% have all the programs and benefits doesn’t say anything yet.
Unfortunately many families are struggling, if not in extreme debt, because they got themselves $500,00+ mortgages just to live on a crowded paltry strip of land in Brooklyn. And the taxes ain’t so cheap anymore either!
great idea haimon!
#4 - Pittsburgh doesn’t have double parking, alternate street parking, school buses honking their horns at 6am, doesn’t have murders like Brooklyn, doesn’t have littering, etc………………
Shame on you people. Outside of Eretz Yisrael Brooklyn is our home. HK’Bs second choice for the Beis Hamikdash would have been Flatbush. Were else do we have peopl who love to be involved in other’s business. Girls that are all the same and son in laws who are like sponges because they feel the need to sit and learn or act like they sit and learn?
Brooklyn #2 in expense #1 in worst place to live. I lived in Brooklyn for 10 years, what a hell hole
I’m doing really well in Brooklyn. Thank goodness for secion 8, medicaid, free cell phones, free utilities, low tuition for all my kinder. I will be able to marry off all my daughters and hopefully, they will have the same life I have. There is no place like Brooklyn!
Doesn’t Pittsburgh have air pollution from the coal mines?
I like brooklyn and am worried about housing prices etc.. that being said I dont like trash talk about where I live. Pittsburgh Jews I am sure for the most part live in safe areas. Before you post know the facts about which is really safer:
Pittsburgh property crimes
BURGLARY THEFT Stolen VEHICLE
PER 1,000 9.79 26.81 2.18
Brooklyn property crimes
RATE PER 1,000 1.97 12.23 1.19
Victim of property crime in Brooklyn-1 in65 pittsburgh 1in25
Pittsburgh Murder Rape Robbery Assault
RATE PER 1,000 0.18 0.22 3.96 5.03
Brooklyn
RATE PER 1,000 0.06 0.12 2.30 3.21
chances of victim of violent crime in brooklyn 1in 175
Pittsburgh 1 in 106
overall crime safety rating:Brooklyn is 41% safer then most major american cities Pittsburgh 10%
There are hundreds of places all over the US that have Vibrant frum communites, and Pittsburgh is only 1 of many.
(Also, there are other places in NY other than Brooklyn)
Very interesting. I guess all you Brooklyn wiseguys who always claims that 5Ters are all loaded and live in mansions owe us an apology. Turns out you guys must be richer than we are to live in Brooklyn. As I’ve always suspected.
Crime is only low in Brooklyn because of they have their own patrol group called Shomrim. take Shomrim away from Wliliamsburg,Boro park and Flatbush for two weeks and watch how crime sky rockets.
Shomrim in Brooklyn is so good that the nypd actually calls them up to solve crime they can’t solve.
As good as Brooklyn is it’s a hell hole and if someone paid me one million dollars to live there i wouldn’t. And your dumb ass mayor keeps on raising prices on everything.
How metziza b’peh doing there?
I lived in Brooklyn for twenty eight years. I hated the last ten years that I lived there. The three story home which I lived in, sold for $72,000 in 1981. Today, the City of NY, has it appraised for $850,000! There is no other location in the USA, where residential real estate has gone up twelve times in thirty years! Some of the things which I disliked about Brooklyn were the auto burglar alarms, which would go off at all times, especially at night, people who refused to clean up after their canines, double parked (and even triple parked) cars, the crowded subways, loudspeaker vans at election time, during the evening hours, hoodlums hanging out in the evening in the area, and making noise, loud firecrackers around July 4th, rude merchants who would always want the exact change for purchases, cars which would block driveways, and cops who would not respond to such calls, the fire department which would show up for surprise inspections on homes, and give out bogus tickets for fire escapes, which were not required under the NYC Administrative Code. Outside of the above, it was a mechaya to live in Brooklyn!