If you ask me, I don’t think the prices in South Beach has dropped that much compared to the rest of Miami.

I’m not a New York City real estate expert, but I was born in Harlem, raised in the boogie down (Da Bronx), rented my first crib at the age of 17 on the Upper East Side on 66th & York Ave, and hung out in Soho all of my life. So, maybe I can shed a bit of light on the Bronx.

As we all know like anything that is portrayed in the media eventually it will get a stigma or cache. In the Bronx’s case everyone knows the Bronx from films such as Fort Apache and Death Wish. Thus the popular belief that if your go to the Bronx you’ll be leaving with out your jewelery and possibly a pound of flesh. And believe me, the part that I was raised that was the case. Yet, there are very affluent parts in the Bronx such as Riverdale and Pelham Bay Park. They would be analogous to Aventura and Miami Shores if I had to pick comparable neighborhoods.

But hey, in the end your liable to get your block knocked off on Prince St and Mercer while pondering the marxist dialectic and it’s use in a modern capitalist nation, as you are to getting your hub caps stolen while watching a Yankee game in Da Bronx.

Now, what I really want to do is sling 3 penthouses at Apogee and disappear to Paris for a few months….lol.

Peter.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure the Bronx has its fair share of posh – as well as diverse – neighborhoods, good restaurants, bars, a zoo, parks, etc. However, one’s (an outsider’s) first image of the Bronx is usually, unfortunately, the ghettos of the south surrounding Yankee Stadium.

Come to think of it, I kind of WISH this was the Bronx.

I retract my statement. Thanks for the compliment.

Is the Bronx bad? I was trying to make a comparison of a neighborhood or city near SoHo, but outside the borough of Manhattan.