New Jersey Couple Opts for McCarren Views
While Williamsburg has been indelibly branded with the hipster label for the last decade or so, luckily the marketing campaigns of developers in the area have cast a much wider demographic net. To wit: When Steven Leeds and Rachel Hott, empty nesters from Montclair, started looking for a place to move in the big city,…
While Williamsburg has been indelibly branded with the hipster label for the last decade or so, luckily the marketing campaigns of developers in the area have cast a much wider demographic net. To wit: When Steven Leeds and Rachel Hott, empty nesters from Montclair, started looking for a place to move in the big city, they fell in love with a three-bedroom pad at The Aurora overlooking McCarren Park. (The 1,400-square-foot apartment was originally listed for $1,200,000, but the fifty-somethings snagged it for $999,000.) Before signing the contract, however, the couple insisted on timing the walk from the new development to the L train station. Luckily for them (and the developer), it clocked in at a commuter-friendly six minutes. They moved in last month, and can’t get enough of their new neighborhood, especially McCarren Park. I have never seen so much activity, Dr. Hott said. There is break dancing and tai chi and soccer. In case they need any tips, The Times also has a close-up this weekend on the neighborhood to the north: Greenpoint.
The Hunt: The Six-Minute Test [NY Times]
Living In: Greenpoint, Brooklyn [NY Times]
The two stops are really pretty much the same distance (if you enter the Bedford stop at the Driggs entrance), plus if you enter at Bedford you save the time between the two stops on the train. And the walk to Bedford is much nicer. Altogether, not much reason to walk to Lorimer (unless you want the G).
I thought it was all NYU students whose parents bought for them. How can 30-year-olds live in fake lofts? Where do they put the children?
wow-quite a thread! williamsburg is pretty big geographically, but north burg is going to get a variety of people like the ones in the article simply because it’s got a ton of apartments and it’s close to the city. i’ve been maintaining this whole time that the majority of buyers are 30+ couples and in fact my neighbors to my left have to be in their 50’s as well. few 20 year olds. of the one 20 something that i know that bought – she needs a roommate for mortgage help. not so different than anywhere else really.
besides the hipster or 20 something bars, there are also some pretty significant restaurants that get all sorts of people from all over anyway.
Benson, kind of. I believe the diner in the movie is MEANT to be the Lindenwood, although it actually seems to be another diner in the Georgetown area, I believe.
Benson, I have had two cops in my column in the five years of its existence. One active, one retired.
— Joyce
Petebklyn & Benson, hear hear re: NY Times profiles (same goes for the ridiculous wedding pages).
ENY;
Is that the diner that was featured in the movie “Goodfellas” (where the truck is hijacked)?
My wife and I sublet a loft in Williamsburg for a couple of months in the summer of 2003, right after we moved to New York. One weekend, we saw a group of older women sitting on lawn chairs by the Bedford L stop screaming “GO HOME!” to all the hipsters emerging from the subway. We got a good laugh out of it.
This winter, we were checking out some apartments in the area and saw a group of teenagers milling around outside the Bedford L; they were wearing full clown costumes, shooting a student film, and pretty extravagantly acting the fool. I don’t know what was worse: the students, or the fact that I started sympathizing with the old ladies.
“i just hope that when i’m in my 50’s i have the energy and interest to stay active in new york. ”
Really sweetster, better look around. What a silly comment. What is it that you do now that you won’t be able to do in your 50s? My wife runs all the half marathons and sometimes the NYC one; I walk into and around Manhattan daily, six miles and up. Neither of us has a problem doing a ten mile day hike in the Adirondacks. We’re 55. But if you don’t think you’ll have the energy, there’s always Florida.