Living in Gowanus
Thanks to all who have responded to my posts this week. One last biggie: Place we are considering buying is on 11th street below 4th avenue. We are nervous about moving so far from park and seemingly far from services we are accustomed to. However, in exchange we are getting more space for the bucks….
Thanks to all who have responded to my posts this week. One last biggie: Place we are considering buying is on 11th street below 4th avenue. We are nervous about moving so far from park and seemingly far from services we are accustomed to. However, in exchange we are getting more space for the bucks. Anyone have an opinion about this area good or bad? safety, shopping, noise, pollution,up and coming or ongoing no man’s lands….etc
thanks….
heres the thing. its a livable neighborhood with a poor perception at the moment.
11th St btween 3 and 4th is a nice block, but perception does matter.
Solution: Get the seller to factor all of the negatives into the price. I bet you can get it for a steal. Use comments like “isnt that neighborhood a new superfund site?” or “my mom is worried that my children will have birth defects if we live there.”
Love Canal.
From a Gowanus girl who actually lives there & knows the area:
food shopping: C town or Pathmark
gym: NY Sports or Y
bars: Royale, Commonwealth
coffee: 474 (best in slope!!) 24 & blackbirds
restaurant row on 5th avenue.
Plus close enough to walk to Carroll Garden & Red Hook
What’s not to like?
I have rode my bike through there, along with driving almost every other day. Thumbs up from me!!
I would live there as well. Better to be up and comming then been and done…..
I think that’s what Sandra says….
also a few new things are popping up like the OP say.
good luck, i think it will be fun !!
First off, you need to be actually standing on one of the bridges over the canal to really smell it. Even then it mostly smells like dirty sea water. It’s not like Fresh Kills in Staten Island. If the proximity to the canal was as bad as people make it out to be North Slope would be a total wasteland instead of one of the most expensive parts of the borough.
psst….. Gret,
now that everyone’s gone, this is just between you and me.
Don’t move there. While it is true that ten years ago many places were considered no man’s land that today are merely scruffy and inconvenient, this ares is STILL no man’s land.
you will never be able to resell property there.
Brooklyn is a big place. find something in a less contaminated, less blighted area. Being a little snobby is not a bad thing in the real estate biz? Y’know?
I would move over there. I however am moving to sunset park. There’s a place for sale on 47th st.
“Stop calling it ‘gowanus’ and just say park slope.”
Ugh, I hope not. There’s value in distinguishing between different neighborhoods, and frankly I have no desire to be absorbed into Park Slope (nothing against it). Just because Gowanus is improving, doesn’t mean it’s becoming part of Park Slope. It just means Gowanus is improving. Anyway, the area is 6 blocks from the Park, and 2 blocks from the Gowanus canal. And for the most part, it doesn’t slope. Hence it’s not Park Slope, it’s Gowanus.
yes – you are going to be longer walk to park…but as far as all the 5th avenue park slope shopping etc. sounds just the same to me. pretty darned close to shopping Lowes and Pathmark. Close to same subway stop as lots of P.S people are using. Stop calling it ‘gowanus’ and just say park slope.