Photo by the New York Times.
This past weekend, the New York Times Real Estate section featured an article on living in Boerum Hill: the history, the shopping, the schools, and the cost. There’s very little (if any?) negatives about he area mentioned, so the article really just serves to bolster the neighborhood’s reputation as one where purchasing is becoming more expensive, but rents seem to be dipping.
The Kopits’ block of Dean Street was the one described in “The Fortress of Solitude,” Jonathan Lethem’s novel about the area in the 1970s, which described ruined row houses sheltering creepy boarders, and a pervasive feeling of decay.
That Boerum Hill is long gone; today it is clean slate sidewalks, self-conscious cafes and neighbors who do more than merely say hello.
“I love the fact that people just drop in,” said Stephen Antonson, an artist who lives with his wife, Kathleen Hackett, and their two young boys in a house on Pacific Street.
“When you have a life where people just come over and knock on your door, there’s something about that I really, really like.”
The improvements continue. On almost any block in Boerum Hill, you can find a stoop railing being replaced, a garden being dug up, a crew hauling in a new Viking range.
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