Neighborhoods for Great Deals?
Hi there! My boyfriend and I currently live in the East Village and are hoping to move out to Brooklyn over the summer. We are looking for a 1-bedroom for 1,200-1,300 per month. Any suggestions on reasonable neighborhoods? We’d love to find something in Cobble Hill or Fort Greene-would you say this is realistic? Thanks…
Hi there! My boyfriend and I currently live in the East Village and are hoping to move out to Brooklyn over the summer. We are looking for a 1-bedroom for 1,200-1,300 per month. Any suggestions on reasonable neighborhoods? We’d love to find something in Cobble Hill or Fort Greene-would you say this is realistic?
Thanks so much! Any tips/suggestions would be much appreciated!
Cheers,
Chantal
We moved from the city and looked in Park Slope for a long time before deciding to rent in Bay Ridge and couldn’t be happier. We found a large 2BR fully renovated apartment for less than run down 1BR’s in Park Slope. You can easily find nice sized 1BR’s and maybe even a few 2BR’s in your price range. If you’re unfamiliar with the area and plan on checking it out, 3rd ave & 5th ave are where most of the restaurants / shops and bars are (both nice but I prefer 3rd), and you may also want to walk down to Shore Road by the water – bike path, parks, etc.
Good luck!
given my username it’s no surprise that i would suggest that you can definitely find an apartment in bensonhurst that fits your criteria.
thanks so much guys!! we are indeed looking to brooklyn because of the rumored lower rent prices. we were hoping to get more for our money, and heard that brooklyn is “greener” than manhattan (we are both from virginia).
i think we might go out this weekend and just walk around different areas of brooklyn. we don’t really care about cool vs. uncool neighborhoods, we are just hoping for a place with a living room–and windows! 🙂
thanks again for your help!!
We have a 1 BR listed on craigslist for 1300- full floor of a private house (our house) with a small patio. South Slope/Greenwood- 18th between 4th and 5th-
Craigslist Ad here:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/abo/1189176187.html
Sorry folks, Clinton Hill 1 beds were that price a few years ago, I know cause that was my rent in CH in 2003…
My suggestions: Ditmas Park near the Newkirk Q train, possibly near Cortelyou Q (the strip at Cortelyou is pretty good in terms of restaurants, cool stores, a food co-op) – both of these places will put you a 5-10 minute bike ride from Prospect Park, and in the vicinity of Coney Island Avenue – which has a great smattering of Middle Eastern, Russian, and Jewish food stores/restaurants; Prospect Park South, which is the back side of Prospect Park, on the Parkside Q (more of a Caribean flavor, in terms of shops & food); Bed-Stuy you can probably find a big place for that price or slightly higher – depending on accessibility to the subway (A or C versus the G) and the part of the neighborhood; Bed-Stuy at the border of Williamsburg and Bushwick, around Broadway and Marcus Garvey Avenue, on the JMZ train.
Good luck, Chantal!!
No, Dick Chaney shoots you in the face.
italiana71,
I’m not prejudiced–some of my best friends are Republicans, but, honestly, don’t they smell, at least a little, and doesn’t Dick Chaney, for one, bite? 🙂
alsawo,
I am much much closer to southern midtown and lower Manhattan in Bed-Stuy than I would be in Washington Heights. And you can park a car on the street without making parking a fulltime job in Bed-Stuy, which is just impossible uptown. I’m an old fogie but I like it better here than in Manhattan, and my 13-year-old daughter does too.
There are plenty of Replicans in Bay Ridge but everyone I know here voted Obama. And my gay friends here call it Gay Ridge. So I’m not really sure that Bay Ridge is still the Republican strong hold it used to be.
Plus Repbulicans don’t bite or smell for that matter and some happen to be very nice.