Have to move back to NY
 

Was in the City yesterday and it just feels like home. Going to start looking for space in Brooklyn soon.

Driving in, random pics at speed
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Very envious. I would lOve to live in NYC!

Shaun, you moving the business here too?

Hey Vinny, yes, the rents are staggering, but I think it's entirely possible to move in early 2013. We've got 4000 sq ft here but don't really need it anymore, I could get by with 1K if we wanted to keep screen-printing in-house and do our own packing, would prefer 2, but that will be about twice our rent here.

lived there from 97-2001 Chris, some of the best years of my life. it's the energy of the City.

NYC is amazing, but I could only live there if it was midtown :)

Rents in Bklyn are sick high. Especially over the past few years. Bklyn has become the new hotspot. What section you thinking about?

Shaun, where are you going to work on your cars ?? I think you're nuts!! ( but in a good way)..
Personally I'd never live in NYC ,, much prefer Boston but hey that's what makes the world go around..

Yeah, the car thing is going to be tough.

I'd go DUMBO but it's too hip right now so rent is probably stupid.

DUMBO is the hotspot now. WAAAYYY high!

Tough call where I'd want to be. I've lived on W29th and W86th in the past. Both were great for different reasons.

With some changes to the company's production, I could do the whole thing out of a 2 bedroom on the Upper West Side, something in the 70s and Amsterdam would be nice.

But then I could see 2K sq ft. of first floor light industrial outside the City where I keep the cars and the company and me, but that's a pipe dream.

I'll start looking seriously in September. Too many factors right now, from shipping FA12 to how far we take vintageracingtees.com to new developments in The Great Adventures of Joey & Rex.

I just know I should be out of here no later than June 2013, April would be perfect. The downside would be leaving all my best friends, but would at least be closer to others.

Interesting, I've fallen completely out of love with New York. Still enjoy visiting but no desire at all to live there. I would need to be paid some ridiculous amount of $$ to consider it, yet I will live in L.A. for pocket change.

It's a lifestyle thing...if you like cars and dogs and houses, not to mention mountains and beaches and having $$ to travel, the west is the best. This is not coming from some big city or NYC hater. When I was younger, it was my favorite place in the world. I've lived in Manhattan under very lucky circumstances, (including on 79th between Columbus and Amsterdam), and I have great, cool friends there. I see them all in L.A. anyways, so no loss there.

Between Guiliani and Bloomberg, they killed it for me with all these rules and laws and whatnot...cleaned the place up too much or something. Plus it's just ungodly expensive, which drives out a lot of cool people and attracts rich scum, IMO.

But it's still the great city. I just don't want to live there. I'm opinionated about these things, so YMMV. :) I wish you good luck in whatever you do.

I was born and raised in NYC. My family is still there and I still work there
everyday. But no way in hell I could ever live there again.

I've lived all over. Started off in the country in CT where you couldn't see your nearest neighbor through the woods, had 4 dogs, 2 cats that brought home 5 foot snakes and an outdoor guinea pig; many of the dogs had bloody noses. Idyllic, perfect. Minnesota suburbs, also great. TX...no. Western MA, Chicago, NYC and traveled to SF enough for years that it was like home.

Denis, I could as readily live in that small CA town you posted recently as I could NYC. Both work for me. I can see how NY gets tiring, didn't for me while I was there, but was younger then. If I were growing the business there, it would only be an energy feed.

time will tell.

Shaun,

We need more people like you in Brooklyn.

With screen printing it makes sense to be here, plus my favorite guys K rock just folded up shop. So there could be more work for you.

& I can loan you tools..for the Porsche, but you probably have that covered.

Speeder... I agree with you, as always , but I am still here for work etc.

City is a bit too cleaned up, generic feeling, with all the chain stores, clean scrubbed kids everywhere but they haven't managed to fix one pothole!

Start...

Spreedin...

Da news...

I was there at same time. Moved out in 2003. Go back often for fun. Was there last week for work. Was thinking how the hell I did it. Lived in soho and life was fun but at 40 now, I could never do it again. Very tough way to live and many sacrifices required. After a while, the fun becomes less so and bitterness sets in and the wallet is empty. I lived in long beach, ny for a while and loved that. Wish I was still there sometimes

I agree with you speeder 100%

I'm glad I lived there in my 20's. Somehow I managed to keep a new car and Harley parked in little Italy but going to that parking garage only to ruin my shocks from pot holes and everything else made me long for more space. Everything there gets old and annoying after a while. I do miss it at times, especially in the fall and winter

I'm conflicted about NYC. It's still probably the greatest city in the world and it continues to attract some of the smartest, coolest people from every corner of the globe. When I visit, I have it good in terms of friends and knowing where to go. It definitely has a lot of energy, good and bad.

Brooklyn for a while there was looking like the village in the '60s in terms of young artists swarming in, it's still cool but really expensive and gentrified. My former stepmother, who is only slightly older than me, lived in the village through the 1980s and '90s. Myself and my brother and sisters could go and stay with her anytime and it was a lot of fun. She lived on Bleecker and Morton, between 6th and 7th, in the '80s and on west 4th and west 12th in the '90s.

In the mid '90s, I lived for a time with a GF on 14th and B, in Stuyvesant town. Really nice rent-controlled apartment that she was sub-leasing somehow. She was working as a model and making good $$, me not so much. ;) During that stretch in NY, I had a car and a big dog. I drove everywhere, at least at night, and could always find parking in Stuy town.

One reason that I don't love the place anymore has more to do with me than NYC, i.e. I am not all that driven of a person. I wish it was different and when I was younger I had a lot more ambition but I've made peace w/ it and have a good life in CA. One good friend in NY, whom I used to work for in the nightclub and restaurant business in L.A., is out there tearing NY a new ass hole, so to speak. He co-owns several restaurants and hotels with other big swells, including The Waverly Inn w/ Graydon Carter, (editor of VF magazine). It is the perfect place for someone like him, the possibilities are truly endless.

Everyone's opinion about various places can have a lot more to do with them than the place. I see that here with rednecks hating CA., etc... I have to remember that my biases color my views as well. Go to NY and tear it up, if you have it in you! :cool: