Brooklyn rentals are not always the cheap bet these days

From the 2011 Data Book: It’s not always cheap to rent an apartment in Brooklyn. (To wit:
check out the figures below for Dumbo, which has the priciest
one-bedrooms and two-bedrooms in the borough, as well as
Williamsburg, which, surprisingly, has the priciest studios.) But it is
still cheaper than Manhattan. In November 2010, renters could get
a Brooklyn one-bedroom for a 23 percent discount compared to
Manhattan (a mean of $2,093 a month in Brooklyn versus $2,725 in
Manhattan), according to the Real Estate Group New York. Studios
and two-bedrooms saw similar percentage discounts. Click on the link at the top of the homepage or here for more. TRD

Data Book