Brooklyn

This is what I tell people about Sunnyside. It's too "normal" to be taken over by hipsters. That being said, if we take a look at Park Slope, yuppies are the ones who changed that area, not really youth or "cool" kids. I think both Ridgewood and Sunnyside may be "gentrified" but by wealthier, working people who want to raise city kids without the Manhattan costs.

Broadway Junction is there already, I've seen hipsters around Highland Park and around Pennsylvania ave. Cypress Hills/East New York is definitely the next and Final Frontier for Brooklyn Gentrification. Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy prices are ridiculous and Brownsville doesn't really have that Brick row/Victorian/Wood Frame housing stock they look for. ENY/Cypress Hills has the A/J/L trains all at Broadway junction and the 2 train on the far south end. Really close to Rockaway, you can get to lower Manhattan in 15-20 minutes and they are expanding the Gateway mall and the national park over by the Belt Pkwy. Since most people there are renters and with plans for improvements such as the reservoir in Highland I think it's only a matter of time. Ridgewood and Glendale are too much of a middle class areas with a lot of people living/owning their homes so I doubt it'll go anywhere.

We are about to bid out a townhouse renovation and i would be interested in hearing anyones feedback/ reviews of Grant Davis Thompson's work.