Moving to a Mansion in Tremont (house, university, closing)

[Pete Piper]

Interesting article about a couple buying a mansion in Tremont after being priced out of owning a Harlem brownstone. If I remember correctly, the mansion is about 3,300 square feet, cost $675,000 and requires at least $200,000 in repairs. What do people think, are they crazy or visionary?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/ga...on&oref=slogin

[AnesthesiaMD]

Cool looking house!

3300 sq ft with 16 rooms! Must be pretty small rooms.

[SeventhFloor]

three cheers for gentrification
hip hip hooray

[Wild Style]

eskmd

yeah that what my wife said when she saw this article. They will probable have to knock some of those rooms down and combine. Maybe 4/5 rooms when its all said and done? Still not bad and a nice yard to boot.

[SuperMario]

They're nuts out their mind. I have read on another site that 2 men were shot and killed on 182nd and Crotona ave this evening. If you go back a week and a half ago, there was another man shot on 181st and Crotona ave. Go back last month and a fued between the bloods and crips resulted in a man being shot on 180th and Hughes (which I witness btw). That's 4 victims, each a block from each other, in a span of 5 weeks.

This my friends is East Tremont. The most dangerous neighborhood in the Bronx, and arguably the city.

Unfortunately I have the misfortune of going back there tomorrow

[bx718]

So what exactly is so new york times news worthy ---- that a couple bought a house? or that a non-bronx couple bought a house in the bronx. will this be in the times if they bought a house in say .............. bensonhurst????

and super mario - are you sure it was crips and bloods or it was just two fighting groups?

and I see your campaign for E-Tremont to be the worst NH in the city continues... either way a death is a death and it's still no bad
. someone's family is sad right now....

Originally Posted by SuperMario

They're nuts out their mind. I have read on another site that 2 men were shot and killed on 182nd and Crotona ave this evening. If you go back a week and a half ago, there was another man shot on 181st and Crotona ave. Go back last month and a fued between the bloods and crips resulted in a man being shot on 180th and Hughes (which I witness btw). That's 4 victims, each a block from each other, in a span of 5 weeks.

This my friends is East Tremont. The most dangerous neighborhood in the Bronx, and arguably the city.

Unfortunately I have the misfortune of going back there tomorrow

[SuperMario]

bx718,

When I was at 180th and Hughes to pick somebody up, in the front stoop there were guys with blue bandanas. I leave the area and go somewhere else but when I get back I see 3 police cars, and the yellow tape closing off the street. They direct us around and as I turn the corner I hear two people overtalking saying "Na these Slobs (Bloods) ni***s is wilin".......so them being mortal enermies I assume it was gang related. So I didn't actually witness it but was there just before and just after it happened.

Another reason was that 2 weeks later as I go in the door at the same location, I see like 10 crip members tagging up the inside.

Much of my disdain for east Tremont comes from personal expirience. The stats also back it up. I mean I live in University Heights, so im accostumed to the ghetto....but over there is something else.

I hope the shootings in and around Crotona ave and the 180's is just a blip....that the block is "hot". If it continues this way, I can't even think of how bad it will get.

[Pete Piper]

I guess it's newsworthy for the fact that an upper-middle class family would even consider living in Tremont. I don't really know the area, but the zoo is a great amenity for kids, and public transportation is good -- a metro north stop / express stop on the D. But it does have a really bad reputation.

[SeventhFloor]

u know what i just realized something.....after the purchase of the home + repairs, these people paid almost a million dollars to live on anthony avenue.....wow. by the time i'm in the financial position to buy a home, there's gonna be wifi cafes on southern boulevard. i probably wont be able to afford ****. check this link out:

http://www.foxtons.com/search?order_...it_type=search

good investment for a first-time homebuyer (couple or single person) or no?

[scatman]

Something forgotten in all of this....the couple is African-American. I've said this all along, that people talking gentrification have never considered that there is a Black gentry! (or should I say, don't want to consider it!).

Now, of course, there are tradeoffs in this endeavor; the rough East Tremont, plus the money it would take to repair this spot. Now, if I were them (and I'm not, or don't have near their money!), I would look at some type of tax relief/abatement from the city (I believe there is!)