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Recession Mass Exodus: From Brooklyn to ... Manhattan??

Real Estate
Manhattan Calling
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
Published: May 10, 2009
Great Recession prices are drawing even the most loyal outer-borough dwellers, from Hoboken to Astoria to the brownstone blocks off Prospect Park, back to Manhattan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/realestate/10cov.html