"The Q is a solid train. And Ditmas Park is our amazing, affordable, tree-lined little secret (shh!). But please don't let south Brooklyn turn into Williamsburg! It's lovely as it is without hordes of Facebook-addicted, angsty, post-college types in skinny jeans! Keep it quiet and nerdy--much better that way." ["Brooklyn, The Borough: Can the Q Be the ...

Most of Brooklyn's home sales are happening in South Brooklyn, a slice of the city much less traveled by Manhattanites than the increasingly mirror-image neighborhoods further north. In the first half of 2008, over 53 percent of Brooklyn home sales closed in South Brooklyn, according to a report (PDF) from appraisal firm Miller Samuel and brokerage Douglas Elliman. Maybe ...