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 (One Brownstoner reader already took exception with this price range as well as the out-of-date census data in the Forum yesterday.)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.
the architecture school is outside the gate and Pratt has a school on W 14 street in Manhattan
“funny I see about 15% of the people that get on the train at Washington Ave are black. I rarely see black people in Clinton Hill anymore”
Is this a joke?
Where do you get your stats, 1:19? Personal observation?
There are very few White families living east of Clinton Avenue. Fort Greene is now about 60-40 (Black-White) Clinton Hill is predominantly Black, I would guess 80-20. Many of the Black families are middle class and the ones who own their houses are by that very fact, millionaires. That is not to say you won’t see some scary dudes, there are lots of them around too. It isn’t Disney World, y’know?
Pratt has many buildings outside that fence that was put up over 30 years ago…
I’m still waiting for someone to post a pic of a park slope house better than those in the story here.
if these houses WERE in PS, they’d be astronimically priced.
The article could have said more about the area and kept talking about Ft. Greene. The article needed more work before it got printed.
Brownstoner: Any posting on that stupid article in the City section of the Times by that asshat Toure? Would love to get feedback on that lame piece of crap.
you’re a genius 1:00. you do realize that anyone is free to walk onto the campus.
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