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Spotlight on Vinegar Hill

Categories: Real Estate, Vinegar Hill

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The New York Times paints such a pretty picture of the under-the-radar neighborhood of Vinegar Hill—we wonder if the good press will endanger its signature sleepiness. This "hamlet within New York City if there ever was one" still feels secluded, even though the 2008 opening of Vinegar Hill House—the neighborhood's first eatery since their diner closed in the 70s— shed some media spotlight on this enclave. The paper discusses the price of living here: "Town houses don’t often come on the market, but when they do they are significantly more affordable than comparable properties in nearby Brooklyn Heights or Fort Greene. Often, they also need work; prices start at about $1.1 million but can reach $2 million for a house in pristine shape, according to Steven Gerber, a senior vice president at the Corcoran Group."
The Little Town That Prices (Almost) Forgot [NY Times]
Photo by Emilio Guerra



By Kara at March 8, 2010 9:45 AM | Comments (22)

22 Comments

By Petebklyn on March 8, 2010 9:44 AM

"Town houses don’t often come on the market" -- is that because there are about 15 of them total?
Under the 'radar' - is because hardly a neighborhood. How many housing units we talking here?
Why don't we just combine it with Dumbo (which it really is) and refer to it as Dumbo Hill?

By thwackamole1 on March 8, 2010 9:58 AM

Let's see:
- No services
- Industrial area
- No subway
- No parking
- Sandwiched between a monster power plant, a monster low-income housing project, a sewage laden inlet, and an elevated highway
- Buildings that were designed as tenements for working-class dockworkers

$2M??????

You could live in similar circumstances in Council Bluffs for about $100k.

By streber on March 8, 2010 10:03 AM


It's not exactly sleepy or undiscovered...

There's many more condo's/developments than there were just 5 or six years ago. The 'sleepy', 'I went back in time' feeling went with them.

Remember the bulls-eye?

By bkhabitant on March 8, 2010 10:16 AM

Agree with thwackamole.

The area has few services, a bit of an industrial feel, no subway (thought the F is close enough), and little parking (mainly because the people who bought overpriced lofts in DUMBO have moved their gas guzzler X5s in), and the surroundings on many sides are not ideal.

But as a positive, in addition to all of things Vinegar Hill does not have that thewackamole mentions, I also have not seen a single group of self entitled parents who walk their double wide strollers with off-road tires two abreast down the entire widths of the sidewalks in neighborhoods such as Park Slope (still haven't figured out the need for the off-road tires in the city).

By eh on March 8, 2010 10:35 AM

ate at vinegar hill house this weekend. quite good.

By dittoburg on March 8, 2010 10:54 AM

The behemoth power plant is a deal-breaker.

By VHR on March 8, 2010 11:03 AM

It’s not sleepy at all anymore since Vinegar Hill House opened. While it would be nice to actually have a restaurant in the hood, we can't ever get in since it’s so popular with people outside of the neighborhood. The environment at the restaurant and the people who go there do seem to have a sense of entitlement. So now we have cab drivers and car services asking us for directions to the restaurant or back to the Brooklyn Bridge every time we are outside our bldg.

The F train is only a 5 min walk and the A train (which I tried to take to work this morning except for the track fire closing the station at High St) is a 10 min. walk. Or in 35 min (as I did today) one can walk across the BB to lower Manhattan. It's a great neighborhood to live in if you commute to Manhattan and don’t need amenities right outside your front door. Walking 10 min. to DUMBO, or stopping at the grocery in DUMBO on the way home from the train works. Now that there is so much more attention to DUMBO, there are lot more amenities for us VH residents.

By altervoce on March 8, 2010 11:22 AM

It's a heck of a hike from Council Bluffs to the F train.

By since 2000 on March 8, 2010 11:38 AM

One important thing the Times article got wrong is that the neighborhood is not zoned for PS 307, which is zoned only for the projects, but for PS 8, which also serves DUMBO and the Heights.

By jessibaby on March 8, 2010 11:40 AM

VHR, I went on Saturday around noon -- plenty of tables. Very good.

By Butterfly on March 8, 2010 11:50 AM

i read this article and i officially nominate vinegar hill at nyc's most obnoxious neighborhood for 2010. very apropos that it's called vinegar hill considering how douchey people there seem to be.


*rob*

By christopher on March 8, 2010 11:51 AM

One important thing the Times article got wrong is that the neighborhood is not zoned for PS 307, which is zoned only for the projects, but for PS 8, which also serves DUMBO and the Heights.

Posted by: since 2000 at March 8, 2010 11:38 AM

A majority of VH is PS 8, but not all of it.

A small section of VH, other than the projects, is zoned for 307. 307's zone goes basically from Sands to Front, Navy/York to Gold. A stretch of Gold north of York and Navy towards Hudson Ave is 307.

By dirty_hipster on March 8, 2010 11:58 AM

Glad to see everyone's drinking their haterade this morning.

Get a life.

By Butterfly on March 8, 2010 11:58 AM

"small section of vinegar hill, other than the projects, is zoned for 307"

:-/

*rob*

By Nomi on March 8, 2010 12:23 PM

I love Vinegar Hill.

By since 2000 on March 8, 2010 12:26 PM

The Times usually gets the schools wrong in this column. If the majority of VH is zoned for PS 8, they should have said that. And the high schools are not relevant since they aren't zoned, nor are middle schools in Dist. 13.

By bkhabitant on March 8, 2010 12:31 PM

Nomi, I am with you. One of my favorite neighborhoods in Brooklyn. While it lacks many amenities, everything is within a ten minute walk and I find it one of the most peaceful parts of the borough for that very reason.

By Brownstones Half Off on March 8, 2010 1:40 PM

What do they have, like 5 brownstones? How does this section even get it's own name rather than DoBro or Dumbo?

***Bid half off peak comps***

By Brownstones Half Off on March 8, 2010 1:40 PM

And where the hell's the hill?

***Bid half off peak comps***

By Petebklyn on March 8, 2010 2:08 PM

hey, BHO -- I said about the same stuff 1st. So if gonna comment and want people to read your comments at least labor thru at read everyone elses.
(and it does rise up from river kinda steeply there).

By Jeremy on March 8, 2010 4:22 PM

Look, it's Vinegar Hill's one street.

By dirty_hipster on March 8, 2010 5:48 PM

y'all just jealous cuz your nabe doesn't have a speakeasy 19th century japanese antique furniture store.

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