Pat city

When NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan, his wife, Dawn, and their daughters, Lucy, 11, and Maeve, 8, moved to Williamsburg last summer, they tested out all the different ways to commute from Brooklyn to work and school in Manhattan.

"We ferried to school, we drove to school, we subway-ed to school," Kiernan says, "and the subway is definitely the fastest."

It was just one of the many new things the family had to learn after making the move from an Upper West Side penthouse, with amazing views, to a circa-1900, single-family, vinyl-sided home in the heart of hipsterdom.

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Pat Kiernan, wife Dawn and daughters Lucy, 11, and Maeve, 8, enjoy a 2,600-square-foot Williamsburg townhouse with an 800-square-foot garden.

The family love how their kitchen (top) leads to their garden, and the guest bathroom features an NYC map as wallpaper.

In 2007, The Post published an At Home with Kiernan at his Upper West Side apartment. Now that he's moved, we've gone back to him for an At Home With Pat Kiernan, Part Two.

"Maybe this is our midlife crisis," says Dawn, the VP of marketing for the Nielsen Company. "This is a young, fun neighborhood. So we moved to young and fun."

And although the area is best known for its youthful vibe, it's also got a flourishing real estate market — which made it a pretty smart choice for the Kiernans.

"We weren't planning on moving," Kiernan says. "But I saw an ad that said 'Fully renovated townhouse, steps to the L train.' The L train is the closest train to the kids' school, Dawn's office and also to NY1. So the obstacle of the river didn't seem like such an obstacle anymore.

"I took down the number and forwarded it to Dawn, and she kind of grabbed onto it more than I did. We looked at what it would mean for us — whether we liked this neighborhood, whether it would be fun to have a change, whether it would work out from a financial point of view."

They thought about holding on to their 2,000-square-foot penthouse (with an 800-square-foot deck) and renting it out, but then a buyer offered them their asking price — $3.8 million.

And though they paid far less for the townhouse, it was a big number for Williamsburg — $2.025 million.

"The idea was to not have so much money tied up in one place," Kiernan says. "This is more affordable."

The three-story home is 2,600 square feet, plus an 800-square-foot garden. It includes four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a comfortable family room, a media room, a room-size walk-in cedar closet, a laundry room and a big, open kitchen with a dining area that flows into the garden.

"One of the great things about the house that first attracted us was the combination of the kitchen and the garden and the way it leads into one another," Kiernan says. "We don't have the view we had on the Upper West Side, but this feels more inviting."

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