The Times Cozies Up to Clinton Hill
The Times gives a little love to Clinton Hill in one of its “Living In [x]” neighborhood snapshots, noting that Myrtle Avenue retail has been shaping up in the past few years and more money is coming into the community c/o well-heeled townhouse and condo buyers. The article also cites the area’s drawbacks, including its…
The Times gives a little love to Clinton Hill in one of its “Living In [x]” neighborhood snapshots, noting that Myrtle Avenue retail has been shaping up in the past few years and more money is coming into the community c/o well-heeled townhouse and condo buyers. The article also cites the area’s drawbacks, including its lack of some amenities, like a decent grocery, and its mediocre train access. Comps, per the story: Condos and co-ops are averaging about $500 per square foot; double duplex brownstones go from $1.2 million to $3 million, on average, according to a Fillmore broker, who says one-bedroom rentals average $1,600 to $2,000. (One Brownstoner reader already took exception with this price range as well as the out-of-date census data in the Forum yesterday.) The article also talks about the Society for Clinton Hill’s push to extend the neighborhood’s landmark district in the wake of condo developments like the Azure. You can just lose so much of your history by developers wanting to maximize the square footage, says Sharon Barnes, a member of the Society for Clinton Hill board. It’s really kind of a race against time.
Living in Clinton Hill [NY Times]
Frank Lynch.
ft. greene is diverse. not clinton hill
Why do Brownstoners feed on each other?
What’s good for Clinton Hill is good for Park Slope is good for Fort Greene is good for Crown Heights, etc.
Some weekend, take a long walk, circling from Brooklyn Heights to Cobble Hill, Red Hook, the Slope, Prospect-Lefferts, Crown Heights, Clinton Hill and Fort Greene and places in-between (plenty of good spots to rest, drink, and eat along the way!). Take in a set of the handsomest city neighborhoods anywhere in the country, and see how they complement one another.
Then stop the bickering and work for the betterment of Brooklyn.
Sheesh!
“They have a 1 block walk to chelsea market and about 1000 other amazing things within 2 blocks.”
Do you mean all the taxi garages?
“How about all those West Chelsea condos rising on 10th and 11th Ave at $1000/square foot?”
they have a 1 block walk to chelsea market and about 1000 other amazing things within 2 blocks.
“I think those are Bedford Stuyvesant race demographics. Clinton Hill is more like 50/50 it seems to me… with more whites are closer to the Ft. Greene end and near Franklin and Fulton but blacks in the north end of the area”
Thank you for this very scientific survey of race.
The real estate agents keep pushing the boundries of what Clinton Hill emcompances. Soon it will include Bushwick. As for CH proper I’ve yet to see prices fall, just rise. A 10 minute walk to the express trains at Dekalb or Atlantic Ave is not a satellite community. How about all those West Chelsea condos rising on 10th and 11th Ave at $1000/square foot?
I’ve seen prices tumble in Clinton Hill over the past year.
If you have a car to park, live in CH.
The article says CH co-ops and condos are “averaging about $500 per square foot” but I would be *delighted* to see such prices. Many of the newer condo 1-bdrms are no larger than 600 sf, which means they should cost $300k by those stats–not happening. Anyone seeing 500/sf prices?