“You buy a property, knock it down, build it up, and it’s sold. Most of the time it’s being sold without it even being built yet.”David Antunes recognized the potential in Harrison years ago, when he was living in Brooklyn and doing celebrity hairstyling at NBC. This area, sometimes called SoHa, also has two hotels and the mushroom-shaped Red Bull Arena, home to one of the area’s professional soccer teams. Luis Pinto, a real estate agent with the Bixler Group, grew up in Harrison and has seen the town go through various changes over the years. “It’s always been an immigrant place — Peruvian, Portuguese, Spanish, Irish, Chinese, Italian, Pakistani, Nigerian,” said Mr. Pinto, 44, who is part of the once-predominant Portuguese community.

Source: New York Times October 23, 2019 09:01 UTC