Neighborhoods and Real Estate Tips
In
January 2000, Clarendon Boulevard (U.S. Highway 17) was renamed Dr. M.L.
King, Jr. Boulevard in honor of the slain civil rights leader and Nobel
Peace Prize winner. As locals adjust to the change, you may hear this
highway referred to interchangeably as Highway 17, Clarendon Boulevard and
King Boulevard.
In
addition to its free publication delivered on Wednesdays, The Shopper also publishes several monthly community newspapers, which are delivered
free of charge to the residents they serve. These include the Taberna
Tribune, Greenbrier Gazette, The Fairfield Harbour Beacon, Trent Woods
Times, The Pines' Perspective (Carolina Pines) and River Bender.
The Historic New Bern Herald is delivered to households in the
historic downtown, Ghent, De Graffenreid, Duffyfield and Riverside
neighborhoods.
NCCOAST Communications produces
the monthly HOMES of Craven/Pamlico Co., and the
Sun Journal publishes the monthly Real Estate Magazine. Both
are available free around town at restaurants and stores, as well as the
Visitors Center in the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center on the corner
of East and South Front Streets and the New Bern Area Chamber of Commerce on South Front Street.
The
Ghent neighborhood offers a holiday delight during December as many of the
area's residents along Rhem, Spencer and Park Avenues lavishly decorate their home's exteriors and yards
with lights and other decorations. The many trees along the median of
Spencer Avenue, which now is a grassy tree-lined strip but was once the
old trolley car line, also are decorated with lights for the holiday
season, and, closer to Christmas, the neighborhood hosts a beautiful display of
luminaria.