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Free-spirited neighborhood at the northern tip of Martha's Vineyard
Bohemian Vineyard Haven is the closest thing Martha’s Vineyard has to a year-round town. In this vibrant district, ivy grows through white picket fences, houses sit on sloped streets and driveways are made of stone. Main Street runs parallel to the waterfront, and artisan cheese stores, clothing retailers and sandwich shops do business on the ground floor of gray-shingled buildings and houses with nautically colored awnings.
The Vineyard Haven ferry transports people between the island and New Bedford year-round, allowing day laborers like construction workers to shuttle back and forth. Hospitality workers tend to rent in and around Vineyard Haven, and home prices are lower than the up-island towns, although taxes are much higher. “It’s a lot of houses that can be in that affordable price range, at least by island standards,” says Lisa Lucier, owner and broker of Anchor Realty in nearby Oak Bluffs. “They have more year-round neighborhoods.” In the wintertime, snowstorms can bring inches of snow to the island, causing traffic accidents and power outages.
Boats fill the Vineyard Haven harbor in the summer months.
Shop for unique gift ideas at Off Main in Vineyard Haven
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Coffee shops and burger restaurants in Vineyard village
Vineyard Haven has a free-spirited vibe, contrasting it with buttoned-up Edgartown and down-home Oak Bluffs. Blooming bushes with brightly colored flowers grow in front of boutiques and residential colonials. Locally owned Bunch of Grapes bookstore has new releases, Vineyard-inspired literature and a resident cat named Bookmark, who likes to curl up in his bed near the front of the store. Second-hand stores like Act Two sell clothing, furniture and accessories at resale prices.
Mocha Mott’s, a coffee shop with an Oak Bluffs location, has bagel sandwiches, soups and flavored coffees. The blueberry flavoring is purple and tastes like the actual berry rather than an artificial flavor. People sit at the café’s wooden tables, use their mobile hotspots for Wi-Fi and read the Vineyard Gazette, which is $1. Bobby B’s has burgers, pizza and fries on one side and cupcakes and pastries on the other. Customers pick up their food from the counter and eat it at a table on the patio. The Attic has a dimly lit dining room with bohemian décor and serves food like ahi tuna and lobster rolls. “Vineyard Haven probably has more open year-round on Main Street compared to Oak Bluffs,” says Lucier. “It has a drugstore and things like that, that we don’t have on our main streets.”
Umbrellas provide shade while eating at Bobby B's Restaurant & Bakery in Vineyard Haven.
Grab a drink with friends at The Attic
in Vineyard haven.
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Huge mansions and housing concerns on Martha's Vineyard
Houses in Vineyard Haven vary in terms of age and style. Gray-shingled 19th-century colonials stand underneath tall, shady trees, behind lush front lawns and flowery bushes, but near the waterfront, new condos are available inside buildings that look like traditional houses. Split-level houses with wraparound front porches can be found behind dirt front pathways and two-story homes with front porches sit on dead-end streets with a mixture of summer and year-round residents. Prices can be as low as $850,000, a steal by island standards, but they can also get as high as $10 million. Vineyard Haven, the colloquial name for the town of Tisbury, has the highest property tax rate of any island town. Taxes are high because they need to support the ferry.
Martha’s Vineyard has an ongoing housing crisis. The prevalence of vacation rentals, where homeowners can make in a week what most renters pay in a month, has made it difficult for people who work on the island to find a place to live. A winter shelter in Oak Bluffs saw 54 guests between Nov. 1 and the end of April, a record. About two-thirds of those guests had seasonal or year-round jobs. Stop & Shop, which has one of its two island stores in Vineyard Haven, provides housing for staff. “They do that to keep their employees, so they know they’re going to have housing,” Lucier says. “It’s hard to be couch surfing and also working. It’s much easier to provide housing for them, to get them to stay.” Construction workers tend to come in for jobs via the ferry, but other than that, most of the workforce lives on the island, she says.
Lately, many of the homes hitting the market are from people who lived on the island for ten or more years, says Lucier. Sometimes residents put their homes up for sale to see what’s out there, but it’s not a big deal if there are no takers. But other times Lucier says she brings a box of tissues to meetings. “They’re crying. They don’t want to sell the house because they love it here. Some of us are worried that’s a trend we don’t really like to see because that means that people who have lived here for a long time can’t afford to live here anymore,” she says. “We don’t want the island to outprice itself.”
Large porches on this row of homes in Vineyard Haven offer plenty of shade on hot summer days.
Bungalow-style homes can be found throughout Vineyard Haven.
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Nuts and bolts of living in Vineyard Haven
Beaches in Vineyard Haven sit behind a harbor full of canoes and personal boats. At Owen Park Beach and Tisbury Town Beach, people can watch the ferry while standing in the sand. People walk along the water's edge at Lake Tashmoo Town Beach, which has huge rocks at the shoreline. The Beach Road Weekend music festival brings thousands of people to Vineyard Haven every summer. People crowd together to watch live bands at Veterans Memorial Park. Softball and soccer leagues also play home games at this neighborhood green space.
The Vineyard Haven Public Library has story time for kids, movie nights and craft workshops. Outside of the downtown bubble, Lake Tashmoo has houses with docks around its perimeter, and it opens into the Vineyard Sound on its north side.
Vineyard Haven is right over the bridge from Mass General Brigham Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, the island’s main healthcare facility. The hospital’s affiliation with Mass General Brigham gives islanders access to healthcare services, like psychiatry and cardiology.
Boating is a way of life for the residents of Vineyard Haven.
Soak up the sun and relax on Owen Park Beach in Vineyard Haven.
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Musical theater at Tisbury School
Five of the six island towns have an elementary school. Kids in Vineyard Haven attend Tisbury School for kindergarten through eighth grade. The school has an A-minus rating from Niche and offers musical theater for children in grades 4-8. After eighth grade, kids move on to Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, which serves all six towns on the island. The high school is a two-time National Blue Ribbon Schools award winner, rated B-plus. It sits across the street from the local YMCA.
Niche gave Tisbury Elementary School an A in the Diversity category.
Martha's Vineyard Regional High School got a B+ for academics by Niche.
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Getting on and off -- and around -- the island
The Vineyard Haven ferry runs year-round to Woods Hole and New Bedford. State Road, which starts in Vineyard Haven, connects it to Oak Bluffs and west to the up-island towns of West Tisbury, Chilmark and Aquinnah. Edgartown harbor is 15-20 minutes away via Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road, and Martha’s Vineyard Airport is 15 minutes away by car. The airport offers seasonal service via American Airlines, JetBlue and Delta and year-round service via Cape Air.
The ferry pulls into Vineyard Haven as the sun sets.
Commercial flights make it easy for Vineyard Haven residents to get on and off the Island.
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On average, homes in Vineyard Haven, Marthas Vineyard sell after 132 days on the market compared to the national average of 52 days. The median sale price for homes in Vineyard Haven, Marthas Vineyard over the last 12 months is $1,265,000, down 1% from the median home sale price over the previous 12 months.
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