“Brooklyn came awfully close to becoming an East Coast Detroit.” – City Journal

In 1982, I moved with my husband and our two young children into a partly renovated brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Last year, New Yorkpronounced the area “the most livable neighborhood in New York City,” but in those days, real-estate agents euphemistically described it as “in transition,” meaning that the chances you’d get mugged during a given year were pretty good.

City Journal’s got an interesting read on the reinvention of Brooklyn. Highly worth a gander here.