What is the coolest neighborhood to live in in Brooklyn?|185083

I_m moving to NYC to go to grad school and think Brooklyn might be the best place to be. I_d like some advice on what neighborhood(s) you think are the coolest to live in.

there are lots of great neighborhoods in bklyn....and they_re all different. it depends on what is important to you. look into: park slope (nice park and neighborhood), williamsburg (the _hipster_ haven), and brooklyn heights. these areas are on the expensive side, however, so you might have to hunt more. craigslist can be a good place to find an apt without the brokers fee, but it takes patience and persistence...good traits to develop if you_re gonna be a new yorker! good luck in grad school...hope you love nyc.

I haven_t been to Bay Ridge for a while but I remember it as a very middle class place . Depending on where you live, it is not far from the water. Also you can get the subway and go to Manhattan from there.

Brooklyn Heights is also nice and convenient to alot of restaurants etc. Lovely brownstones --- pricey.

Brighton Beach.

Cool means different things to different people. I grew up in Borough Park and that was and remains a very interesting neighborhood. I went to high school in Bay Ridge and that has become a bustling cosmopolitan neighborhood. Park Slope has long been a neighborhood with unique character. Brooklyn Heights has become a yuppie haven. Gravesend seems to be about the only large middle class family neighborhood left.

Park Slope, parts of Williamsburgh, Greenpoint, Bay Ridge, Manhattan Beach.

Manhatten

Williamsburg has gotten very trendy the new Village so to say.

in the rubbish ! stupid

bensonhurst or midwood

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bayridge is a good place thats from a new yorker who lived there 35 yrs