Is Beacon Done?

  |  November 4, 2013
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That’s the feeling we’ve been getting from folks who are on the Brooklyn-Beacon-Newburgh trajectory. They left Brooklyn for Beacon, seeking affordable housing and an artsy community with good transit to the city. Now they’re priced out of Beacon and heading over to Newburgh, where there are still bargains to be had. Beacon is Discovered, they say, with all the good and the bad that accompanies a place with hype.

There are still affordable places in Beacon, as you can see from the Trulia snapshot above, but they tend to be underwhelming, places that don’t necessarily have those good bones old house buffs are always looking for. There are a lot of newer homes, some suburban in style and feel (nothing wrong with that, of course, but those looking for old world charm might not cotton to them). Has all the good stuff gotten snatched up in Beacon? Has it reached its apogee? Or is there still room for new blood and room for improvement?

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