That “Tastemaking” B43 Bus

New York Magazine’s Real Estate section reports on the Corcoranization of post-Contact yet still “bodega-heavy” Prospect-Lefferts Gardens:

For years, Manhattan expats have been creeping around the edges of Prospect Park, from the Slope into Kensington and Prospect Heights. Now the eastern edge of the park—Prospect–Lefferts Gardens, a neighborhood few of them had probably heard of till recently—is fair game. “It’s become a destination for Manhattanites,” agrees Aguayo & Huebener associate broker and local resident Mark Dicus. Corcoran’s Joy Weiner, [new resident Jason Oliver] Nixon’s longtime agent, says she has sold six properties there in the past few years, all to former Manhattanites.

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Brokers say the friendly vibe and handsome houses make up for some of Prospect–Lefferts Gardens’ shortcomings: Graffiti mars storefronts on the bodega-heavy thoroughfares of Flatbush and Rogers Avenues, and the schools aren’t the best. Still, says Weiner, “sophisticated buyers are willing to go to undeveloped neighborhoods for the architecture.” Besides, with developers circling abandoned warehouses on Empire Boulevard and constructing residential buildings such as the one slated for Hawthorne Street, yet another Brooklyn-neighborhood makeover can’t be too far off. “I’ll be bringing lots of my tastemaking friends to Lefferts Gardens,” says Nixon. “It’ll be the next best thing.”

All of which begs the question: Where aren’t displaced Manhattanites moving to?