Kensington NY Real Estate Guide
This is Jayson Sheftell from the Daily News in Kensington, Brooklyn. A few months ago, I called this neighborhood one of the best value propositions in Brooklyn. It still is.
On these tree-lined streets, one and two-family beautiful large homes can go for $850,000.00. You have front lawns, back lawns, front gates, stoops, basements and sometimes sheds in the back. Families love it here.
The other thing happening right now is they’ve got great one and two-bedroom rental apartments and these houses going from $1200.00, $1500.00 and $1700.00, sometimes for as much as fifteen hundred square feet. So if you’re looking for a big place to live, this is where you might want to come. It’s one block from Ocean Parkway, 40 minutes to Manhattan, the F or the G-train can get you to Williamsburg in 20 minutes or so. So you really are centrally located within Brooklyn. You can get to Coney Island on the far side in 15 to 20 minutes by car, and Prospect Park is a five-minute bike ride away.
Maybe that explains why this neighborhood is so diverse. It’s got Orthodox Jews, people living right next to Muslim Clerics who are right next to Bangladeshi cab drivers, near Indians and people from the islands like Guiana, the Caribbean, or also places like Costa Rica. So you have this incredibly good mix of people, hardworking New Yorkers who make this neighborhood really what it this. You’ve got a great of mix of housing as well. You’ve got different big A-frame homes next to pre-war apartment buildings, near row houses, near townhouses. Those come in all sizes and also, they come in all different conditions. Sometimes you got a house in great condition. Other times, you’ll have to do a lot of work. This is not yuppy go yet. You don’t have a lot of people from Manhattan moving out here. That might come. It was happening before the recession, which you do have those. Some hipsters were going a little bit tired of Williamsburg.
I ran into some people today in fact who said they’re just sick and tired of hipsters. They found a bigger place to live here which has great transportation. What you also have is a great mix of foods and not much culture. I ran into another person who said there’s nothing here, nothing at all. That’s a problem. People go to Park Slope to find coffee shops. You do have the cemetery close by, a food town just refurbished itself. Now, it’s one of the biggest things the neighborhood is talking about.
What you really have here is a very peaceful, quiet neighborhood. It also has an industrial base not that far and it’s becoming a real melting pot for all the neighborhoods around here. You see these pretty streets, you see these pretty houses, people really like to live here because it gives them their own sense of space and peace and quiet.
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