Frey said, although there have been efforts by school administrators to raise standards in the district in recent years. Mostly it is the city's school system that causes prospective buyers to tread slowly, Mr. Like many urban areas, Mount Vernon has problems with crime, but Fleetwood itself does not share those problems, Mr.
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Frey, a board member of the Fleetwood Neighborhood Association and the editor for the group's newsletter, ''10552 Today!'' named for the ZIP code serving Fleetwood. ''Fleetwood offers wonderful old homes.''īut Mount Vernon ''has some challenges,'' said Mr. Frey, who moved to Mount Vernon from San Antonio. ''It was the best value around,'' said Mr. Herzfeld said.Īnother Fleetwood resident, Brently Frey, who runs a marketing and advertising business from his home, said he bought a three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath, 82-year-old colonial for $350,000 four years ago. ''We looked in New Rochelle, but houses there were too expensive,'' Mrs. Built in the 1930's with large trees on an eighth of an acre, the house cost the couple $181,500 three years ago. Herzfeld and her husband, William, a special education teacher who commutes to Queens, chose a four-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath Tudor in Fleetwood. ''You cannot find these homes for the price elsewhere.''
''Fleetwood is one of the most affordable areas in Westchester, and the architecture is second to none,'' Mr. And a single family, three-bedroom Tudor near the Pennington-Grimes Elementary School, within walking distance of Bronxville, might come on the market for as little as $300,000 to $400,000, although some larger homes go for as much as $1 million. A two-bedroom, two-bath unit in one of the two condominium complexes in the Fleetwood area recently sold for $245,000. Taxes are also relatively lower than in some of the surrounding towns.Ī two-bedroom, one-bath co-op in Westchester Gardens, a four-story, prewar building on Gramatan Avenue, would list for $80,000 to $125,000, depending on the square footage, he said.
HESS said real estate prices in Fleetwood were much lower than those in Pelham, Bronxville and New Rochelle, which are similarly about a half-hour from New York City's job market. ''You can just about fall out of bed and onto the morning train into Manhattan,'' said Steve Hess, an associate broker for Fleetwood Realty. Only now, faster train service lets commuters travel to Grand Central Terminal on the Harlem line in as little as 27 minutes. Nearby, the Fleetwood Metro-North train station - within walking distance for all who live in the neighborhood - attracts many new residents to the area, as it did 80 years ago. These days, she takes pleasure in the joy of her children, Bailey, 4, and Sean, 2, on getting a similar gift from a merchant. Herzfeld, who moved to New York City after college and returned in 1995 when she was married, fondly remembers cookies that the local baker gave out to children some two decades ago. The shopping enclave in the center of Fleetwood along Gramatan Avenue has boutiques and various mom-and-pop businesses, including food markets and restaurants specializing in ethnic foods that reflect the diversity of the population.Įmily Herzfeld, who grew up near the shopping area, now takes her children there on shopping jaunts. ''It looks like many other pretty suburban areas in Westchester that are built around a village shopping area,'' Ms. Now, pre-World War II vintage homes, many Tudors among them on quarter-acre and smaller lots, line streets shaded by mature trees. The neighborhood as it looks today dates to a building boom in the 1920's, when apartment houses rose near the train station and one-family homes appeared on outlying streets. ''There's a great mix of people in little more than a square mile,'' said Patricia Rochford, branch manager for Houlihan/Lawrence Lindsey in Fleetwood.ĭespite its location in Mount Vernon, one of Westchester's most populous cities, Fleetwood has retained a small-town feeling. The neighborhood, a blend of city and suburbia, is home to young couples and singles, empty-nesters and retirees, the well-to-do and the working class of many races and religions, commuters and stay-at-home moms. JUST north of the city streets of the Bronx and south of suburban Bronxville, the leafy Fleetwood section of Mount Vernon offers a spectrum of housing alternatives - co-ops, rentals, multifamily residences and single-family houses - for a diverse population.
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