“Now we go there once or twice a week for drinks or dinner,” Ms. Boiarsky searched on Google for a place to eat and wound up two blocks over, at Grant Street Cafe, a convivial place known for craft beer and thin-crust pizza - the sort of watering hole one might find in Jersey City or Hoboken. With an empty refrigerator on their first night there, Ms. That speaks volumes about the community.” Their kids were upset about leaving - but they stayed in Dumont. “We bought it from a family of six who upgraded to a bigger house. “There were 16 offers on this house, and I have no idea how we got it for what we paid” - $460,000, or $41,00 over the asking price - “but we feel grateful,” Ms. Boiarsky, 25, a data analyst for a media company, moved from a rental in Jersey City, N.J. Cresci, 30, a digital fund-raiser, and Mr.
With plans to start a family - and stung by the home prices on Long Island, where they grew up - Carolyn Cresci and Craig Boiarsky also bought a Cape Cod in Dumont one year into the pandemic, theirs with four bedrooms.
