From Boston to Brooklyn by 11/1
hello – i will be relocating from boston to brooklyn within the next 2 months. i’m familiar with various reputations near prospect park. i am on a tight budget so am looking for a studio under $1100. don’t laugh! i know this will require being in not the most preferable areas. can anyone tell me…
hello – i will be relocating from boston to brooklyn within the next 2 months.
i’m familiar with various reputations near prospect park. i am on a tight budget so am looking for a studio under $1100. don’t laugh!
i know this will require being in not the most preferable areas.
can anyone tell me what areas in bed-stuy are relatively safe? and anywhere else for someone on a low budget. i’ve heard that once ‘bad’ neighborhoods are not so treacherous–everywhere is becoming gentrified. i know finding a place on my budget will be tough, but am optimistic that i’ll find something i can live with, as a starter apt. i’m just trying to avoid a roommate situation. i’m in my 30s now and unless it’s through a friend, i’m not going there.
i know about realtor gimmicks, etc. boston is not that different, so can handle my own, even in NY.
any realtor recommendations?
thanks much!
> all apts. are considered ‘rent stablized’ if under $2000
This is absolutely false.
Read up on the guidelines here: http://www.housingnyc.com/
Good luck in your search.
also, i’m wondering what the laws are in NY to increase rent at lease renewal. say, i get a deal on place where i pay $1000, when in a great economy goes for $1200. can a landlord increase rent that much? in my over 10 years of renting, my landlords increased just a small percentage.
i also heard that ‘rent stablized’ in NY means rent barely increases if it’s under $2000–that all apts. are considered ‘rent stablized’ if under $2000.
please lend some insight. thanks!
hollifer just be aware that apartments for rent in NYC don’t usually appear until 1 week, 2 weeks max, before they are ready for occupancy. so don’t fret when you start looking oct 1st and can’t find anything for dec 1st move in. it is always a last minute deal.
hollifer, you’ll have a good shot. People move in and out all the time so you are probably good to go. I highly doubt that rents will magically increase from now to October/November when you’re looking.
thanks again all for the advice and insight. it’s been extremely helpful.
i lived in a town just outside boston for a few years that is considered a young family neighborhood–so comparable to bay ridge. it was fine for a year, but my roommate and i were getting ancy after that and wanted to be closer to boston. i sense that bay ridge is lovely, once you’ve been lived in the NYC area for a few years. i realize that my budget limits my ideal place to live, but it sounds like i could get my own place (sans roommate) closer.
i’ll be living in the area by/in oct. so plan on looking for places for nov/dec. do you all think i’d be able to find something for a dec move-in? options will be fewer, but i suspect so will competition. i have a feeling that rents will be the same, and maybe as time goes by and landlords still have empty apts., i could get an even sweeter deal–the winter special.
thanks again!
I only offered because BOD asked for them in an earlier post in the this thread.
I also said in an earlier post that each nabe has something to offer everyone so she should check out a few nabes before deciding. So traditional – I agree with you.
who the eff goes out in manhattan on the weekends?
Italiana, we get it, you love Bay Ridge. I really like it there too. I lived a whole year there. So yeah actually I do know the scene. Which is why I’d never recommend it to a single person who is new to the city and doesn’t know many people yet. Singles wouldn’t be interested in only going out in Bay Ridge and never leaving the neighborhood. So pointing out local offerings doesn’t do any good. Anybody who goes out in Manhattan and returns home late even just once or twice a week would be miserable at the hour or longer it takes to get home when the R is so slow and scarce late at night. Bay Ridge is very appealing to families. That’s who it should be recommended to. Which is totally okay. Not every neighborhood is right for every demographic.
Traditional mod – I wish everyone was home by 8:00 – 9:00. Have you ever been down third ave at aroun midnight? You don’t know bayridge very well. It is full of bars and supper clubs and it is not deserted by 9:00. Hell,even when a group of us moms go out for drinks we still out after 11.
BOD- I’m a mom so I don’t know many bars in the area. But I do know that a lot of the resturaunts that the hipster type hang out in:
Le Petite oven
Le Maison du Cous cous
Tanoreen
St. Germain
Well those are the ones my artys farts friends go to anyway.
If you’re looking to meet younger people may I suggest joinig the BayRidge Food Coop? I belong to it and there are ove 1000 people singed on- lots of younger people who moved from the known hipper nabes of brooklyn looking for cheaper rent. check out http://www.foodcoopbayridge.com to sign up for newsletters and events.