Neighborhoods like Ditmas Park in Mid-Atlantic/Northeast? (White Plains, Peekskill: renting, mortgage)
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Living and renting in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn currently. I won't ever have enough money to buy here but love the neighborhood--the architecture, the layout, the walkability, the laid-back porch-sitting vibe, and easy access to public transit.
I am on the hunt for similar hoods in the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast, looking for pretty much the same housing stock (old Victorians). Would love to hear about any suggestions. A few pictures are below to give people an idea.
My friend is renting a room in one of those homes on 24th st, and I love it! The house was built in 1900, and it's huge, so easy to get lost in it. Those homes cost a lot of money to maintain, and many of them need hundreds of thousands in renovations.
I agree with G-Dale that those areas have similar architecture to Ditmas Park.
But what you're looking for - which is that architecture combined with easy transit, interesting places to walk to and that certain "east going" vibe- usually comes at a premium. The unique thing about Ditmas Park is that you get a little slice of beautiful homes and quite, quaint streets smack in the middle of Brooklyn.
Parts of Forest Hills in Queens can be similar too, actually. But if you can't afford Ditmas Park...forget Forest Hills, that's a totally different ball game.
Many of the small cities in Westchester County, and presumably Jersey and metro Philly as well, have inner-ring neighborhoods that were built around the same time as Ditmas Park and are similar in architecture and layout. But the demographics, culture and vibe (and the accessibility of public transit) will be very different from neighborhood to neighborhood and city to city. As a neighborhood of grand single-family Victorians which is still part of the overall density and culture of Brooklyn, Ditmas Park is pretty much unique.
Peekskill might be close to what you're looking for, actually. It's got tons of old Victorians and a decently preserved 19th-century downtown, and demographically it's not unlike parts of Brooklyn that haven't totally gentrified, in that it's a diverse mix of neighborhood old timers, recent immigrants and young artsy/creative types. It's about an hour to Grand Central on the Metro-North and would be well within your price range. (But the school system is bad, if that's a concern, which is one reason downtown has some artists but no wholesale gentrification.)
Living and renting in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn currently. I won't ever have enough money to buy here but love the neighborhood--the architecture, the layout, the walkability, the laid-back porch-sitting vibe, and easy access to public transit.
I am on the hunt for similar hoods in the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast, looking for pretty much the same housing stock (old Victorians). Would love to hear about any suggestions. A few pictures are below to give people an idea.
Budget is 600k or under.
A lot of neighborhoods in and around Boston are pretty much exactly the same as Ditmas Park in all of the above respects but I don't think the prices are much if any less.
I love Ditmas Park but I think you may need to leave the northeast to find something comparable.
I have been to Charlotte a few times and Dilworth area might work (I think average price there is 500K but that may have gone up).
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