Rentals of the Day: Prospect Heights
Here are some of the Prospect Heights rentals recently featured on Craigslist, most of which are pitched as good shares. Judging from this sample, 2-bedrooms in the nabe tend to go for around $2,000. Clockwise, from upper left: 1. 2-bed, h/w floors, large common spaces, $2100; St John’s at Underhill 2. 2-bed, 2-bath, 1500-sq-ft. duplex,…
Here are some of the Prospect Heights rentals recently featured on Craigslist, most of which are pitched as good shares. Judging from this sample, 2-bedrooms in the nabe tend to go for around $2,000. Clockwise, from upper left:
1. 2-bed, h/w floors, large common spaces, $2100; St John’s at Underhill
2. 2-bed, 2-bath, 1500-sq-ft. duplex, priv. garden, $3500; Prospect at Vanderbilt
3. 2-bed, h/w floors, open kitchen, $1800; Prospect near Washington
4. 2-bed, r/s, gut reno, $1700; Underhill at St Marks
5. 2-bed w/ office nook, h/w floors, $2000; Bergen at Vanderbilt
north slope is very quite. The only noise is my damn radiator.
I live on a North Slope block and it is quite quiet. Enough for me, anyway. Almost too quiet. I have to sleep with a humidifier on to create a little white noise. Certainly parts of this city are unbearably noisy. I just saw a cop the other day behind a car who was honking, in the distance seeing the sign that said there was a $300 fine for honking. I don’t get it. The city needs more money? They could probably pay for the 2nd Avenue subway with the amount they could collect on honking fines alone!!
I just heard that the mayor is really going to try to crack down on noise and emphasized that in his new iniative to start having 311 accessible via the internet.
^ are you serious?
8 million people live in a very small area which causes noise.
NYC would be perfect for me in every way were it not for noise as a quality of life issue. Our melting pot experience means too many people who do not value the concepts of peace and reflection and consideration of others. Plus there’s the construction noise and traffic. I really hope the city keeps working on noise control for its residents. Every single person I know has or has had a serious noise issue in NYC whether at home or the office. It’s really terrible.
yes, that scares me too, 2:31.
and as i get older, i do think i’ll want to be here in nyc.
i’m not the retire to florida type.
florida scares me.
2:39…berlin does indeed have cheap rents. nice city, but VERY different from nyc. do some research before you move. i considered it also, and found it a nice place to visit, but not somewhere i’d like to live.
you have to have an incredibly good sense of humor to enjoy living in berlin. you can never quite escape its past.
we are all lucky…for all of its quirks…new york city really is an amazing place to live. once you leave this country it really rings true when i encounter people in europe or in argentina or in dubai…EVERYONE wants to live in nyc.
we already do. let’s be thankful and not let all this economic news ruin that for us.
start saving some money and enjoy what this city has to offer.
your friend moves to Tampa
berlin has cheap rents. im moving there
People who do plan to live in NYC their whole lives should be nervous about being 70 years old and renting. The world is not kind to the elderly being pushed out of rental apartments. I have a friend who never tried to buy when he was younger, he’s single and single for life, now he’s 50 years old and could never afford to make the jump to buying. When he could have done so 20 years ago when all his friends bought a place. Now what does he do?
2:20…
i would agree that the statement would be scary if we were in des moines, iowa.
but as a musician living in nyc, buying a home in nyc is not necessarily something i thought was a god given right.
i live in this city because to me it has the best of everything.
owning even a small slice of that would be great. just like i wouldn’t expect to up and move to london and expect that i should be able to buy a 1 bedroom on my salary.
i knew all this going into my profession and i do it because i love it. i feel lucky, but it also probably means that i will never own a 3 million dollar house. and i am just fine with that.
i like small, efficient spaces, luckily.