Brooklyn (Williamsburg)? Jersey City? Hoboken? These have all gone from blue-collar to completely-unaffordable within the lifetime of GenX and elder Millennials

Brooklyn (Williamsburg)? Jersey City? Hoboken? These have all gone from blue-collar to completely-unaffordable within the lifetime of GenX and elder Millennials. NYC does expand. Now -- funny thing: With the PATH, you can get into the financial district faster from Newark than you can from Brooklyn. So the obvious next thing to do is to gentrify Newark. That's been slow though -- money still remembers the 1967 riots.