Baby boomers are increasingly showing interest in the youthful enclave that is — or was — Williamsburg, Brooklyn, brokers and residents say. While NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy hasn’t yet seen a measurable shift in the area’s age distribution, Halstead Property’s Brooklyn executive sales director Roberta Benzilio has noticed a rising number of older prospective buyers showing up at Willliamsburg’s open houses over the past year, she said. Shop owners have also noticed a shift. “We definitely have a crew of older regulars,” Mark Firth, co-owner of café Marlow & Sons, told New York Magazine. “When we first opened, it was mostly under 30.”
[NY Mag]