Close to Manhattan - but without a close to Manhattan price
I have a feeling I’m going to get pounced on for posting this. You guys can be rough on people. I’m looking for a good sized one bedroom close to Manhattan for $1350. Any apartment hunting suggestions? I know about craigslist. A lot of the apts on there are scams. Rent control would be great…
I have a feeling I’m going to get pounced on for posting this. You guys can be rough on people. I’m looking for a good sized one bedroom close to Manhattan for $1350. Any apartment hunting suggestions? I know about craigslist. A lot of the apts on there are scams. Rent control would be great since my company is cheap, therefore I’m poor. I know you’re all tired of people moving to Brooklyn, but if it helps my first year living away from home was in Brooklyn 😉 Seriously, I need ot get out of Jersey, please help. Thanks.
Try Sunset or Ditmas Park. Both great options in the budget. Astoria is bit bland but avoid Jackson Heights…it ain’t nothing like “Park Slope of Queens” as they keep marketing it. I know bc I lived there for few years.
Good luck!
I recommend Bushwick, especially along the L train. It a mostly latino neighborhood and a few hipsters. A couple of decent restaurants have opened and it seems that more are on the way. Since the L train has been renovated, it is a fast ride into the city. 20 minutes to Union Sq. from my stop.
Stuyvesant heights, near the Utica stop on the A train, is close in train-miles (very fast ride on the A) and you can find a nice apartment for that price. Plenty safe, more and more restaurants/amenities.
Bed Stuy or bushwick closer to the J train is also good. Not sure you’d get an apartment for $1350 in Bushwick that’s nice. But you’d get a nice apartment near the Myrtle stop on the JMZ, and that is a fast ride into Manhattan.
I like Astoria a lot, but it doesn’t feel that close to the city. The trains that service it are lame. And it’s expensive.
I live in Bay Ridge. It’s not a “hip” neighborhood and commuting is a bit of a pain compared to the Heights and PS.
OTOH, I telecommute and having been kicked around Soho and Noho since my late teens by self-important trust babies, fast buck developers, culture vultures and the truck chic, I wanted to live in a stable, relaxed neighborhood with middle-income neighbors who grew up on the block.
Very happy here, but that’s just me.
bay ridge
I heard it would be in one direction for a while then in the other direction for a while. All in all over the period of a year.
8:47 is obsessed with astoria.
really weird. i hate that place.
8:47’s post is only somewhat correct–two F train stations will be closed IN ONE DIRECTION for a while. This doesn’t mean no station (a major drag), just partial closure (a more tolerable drag).
And, the stations that will be partially-closed are 15th Street and Ft. Hamilton. Church Ave, in the middle of Kensington, will not be affected.
The MTA will be closing the F train stop that services Kensington and Windsor Terrace. To work on the line over the next year. Something to keep in mind.
I live in Brooklyn too, and to weigh in, I’d go to Astoria before I’d go to Kensington or WT.