BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — It was not all doom and gloom at yesterday’s Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable although many in attendance were overheard expressing pessimism in their conversations.
And doom and gloom did not hurt attendance at the quarterly event, held at the Brooklyn Historical Society in Brooklyn Heights, where the usual 12 tables of 10 set for lunch appeared to be full.
In fact, David Kramer of The Hudson Companies, a member of the Roundtable Steering Committee and chair of the event, said that raising $140,000 for the Brooklyn Historical Society over the four Roundtable events in 2008 was one of the bright spots in a year “where the real estate market news has been fairly discouraging,”
He shared several other bright spots, namely the success of retailer Ricky’s, where the lines were out the door for Halloween costumes — “good news in terms of consumer spending,” he said.
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