Thinking of buying a home on Ramsay Rd in Montclair. Any opinions on this area for a Manhattanite aptartment dweller?
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You gotta be doing something right if you can consider a mansion backed up to the Eagle Rock Reservation as a first-time homebuyer. The only things scary around there are the price and the taxes.
You gotta be doing something right if you can consider a mansion backed up to the Eagle Rock Reservation as a first-time homebuyer. The only things scary around there are the price and the taxes.
(I imagine the OP has long since decided)
I would imagine you are right.
Nonetheless, I know that street well. It is one of the nicest areas of Montclair. There are only a few houses on the street, and they are all beautiful. I have a colleague that lives around the block on Undercliff. Those houses have beautiful views of Manhattan. Especially in the winter when all the leaves have fallen.
Rule of thumb: Upper Montclair is nice, quiet and of course expensive. Lower Montclair, especially south of Bloomfield Ave is not.
Some of the biggest houses in Montclair are in the area of the Montclair Art Museum, on South Mountain Avenue, south of Bloomfield Avenue. Ramsey Road is not far from there.
I will say my grandmother who never lived outside Manhattan found Montclair so boring when she would come to visit or stay at our house. And we lived in Upper Montclair! She probably would have liked Bloomfield Ave. (as it is today) much better
OP- Looks like you bought it (or were outbid). How do you like it there? Does it feel remote at times? Just drove by there this AM.
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