Great Areas Near NYC/ Good Schools (Rochester, Yonkers: apartments, school districts, living in)

[katek]

Hi! I am moving from Rochester, NY (upstate) to the NYC area within the next year and I am finding it hard to find good areas near NYC. I want to live 20-60 minutes away from the city although I will commute to school in Manhattan and work in Long Island. I have a few questions for anyone with advice on good areas in the suburbs of NYC.

What do you think about these areas? Yonkers, Bronxville, Easterchester, New Rochelle, Scardale, White Plains and other nearby areas. How are the school districts in these towns or others?

I do not want to live in a rural area, but I do not want to live on top of people any other areas that are nice?

Has anyone ever heard of Avalon Apartment Communites? I found them online and they have apartments in Elmsford and Nanuet and they looked very nice and kind of reasonable. Does anyone have any experience with those areas (like the commute?) or the apartments themselves? Let me know...

Any advice would be appreciated! Thank you for your time.

[BXGEAR]

If I were you, I'd live in Manhattan. Somewhere on the Upper East Side and send my kids to a private school in the area.

But if all else fails, check out Staten Island

[tiredofNY]

Hello.
I live in Nanuet and Avalon Gardens is nice. Nanuet is close to nyc but not Long Island. If you must work in LI then you should def. Look for living in LI also. Anything over the throgs neck bridge or white stone is kinds far. Altough the places you mentioned are really nice. What is your budget? Nanuet has great schools. I love the schools. I have lived here for 5 yrs but planning to move to North Carolina because everrything is so expensive in NY but if you can afford it, hey, then Nanuet, New City, Pearl River are really good towns with good schools. They are about 15 minutes from the george washington bridge which takes you straight ti manhattan. Let me know if I can give you more info.
PS LI is tricky woth schools. it really does depend where you are. but getting to Manhattan is really easy too.
hope it helps. Stay away from yonkers and east chester they are like an expansion of the bronx. So offense to anyone.
Vicky

[katek]

Originally Posted by tiredofNY

Hello.
I live in Nanuet and Avalon Gardens is nice. Nanuet is close to nyc but not Long Island. If you must work in LI then you should def. Look for living in LI also. Anything over the throgs neck bridge or white stone is kinds far. Altough the places you mentioned are really nice. What is your budget? Nanuet has great schools. I love the schools. I have lived here for 5 yrs but planning to move to North Carolina because everrything is so expensive in NY but if you can afford it, hey, then Nanuet, New City, Pearl River are really good towns with good schools. They are about 15 minutes from the george washington bridge which takes you straight ti manhattan. Let me know if I can give you more info.
PS LI is tricky woth schools. it really does depend where you are. but getting to Manhattan is really easy too.
hope it helps. Stay away from yonkers and east chester they are like an expansion of the bronx. So offense to anyone.
Vicky

Thanks! Is there public transportation from the city from Nanuet?

[Jrock247]

you want to work on LI, go to school in manhattan and live in westchester?

why?

save yourself the trouble and move to LI close to LIRR. Otherwise get ready to waist a couple of hours a day stuck in traffic on cross island. Plenty of great places on LI. Your looking at a stupid long commute (like an hour each way plus paying $8 a day in tolls if you have EZPASS otherwise $9)

[samyn on the green]

Your plan to live in Westchester, work in LI and go to school in Manhattan is poorly thought out and sure to be a misarable experience. You need to come up with a better plan.

Here is what you do. Get a place in Queens or LI close to your job. Keep the hellish commutes and tolls to min. The schools in Queens are great and so are LI schools. At the very least the schools in Queens will be an adversity filled character builder for your kid.

Originally Posted by katek

Hi! I am moving from Rochester, NY (upstate) to the NYC area within the next year and I am finding it hard to find good areas near NYC. I want to live 20-60 minutes away from the city although I will commute to school in Manhattan and work in Long Island. I have a few questions for anyone with advice on good areas in the suburbs of NYC.

What do you think about these areas? Yonkers, Bronxville, Easterchester, New Rochelle, Scardale, White Plains and other nearby areas. How are the school districts in these towns or others?

I do not want to live in a rural area, but I do not want to live on top of people any other areas that are nice?

Has anyone ever heard of Avalon Apartment Communites? I found them online and they have apartments in Elmsford and Nanuet and they looked very nice and kind of reasonable. Does anyone have any experience with those areas (like the commute?) or the apartments themselves? Let me know...

Any advice would be appreciated! Thank you for your time.

[straightshooter]

Originally Posted by samyn on the green

Your plan to live in Westchester, work in LI and go to school in Manhattan is poorly thought out and sure to be a misarable experience. You need to come up with a better plan.

Here is what you do. Get a place in Queens or LI close to your job. Keep the hellish commutes and tolls to min. The schools in Queens are great and so are LI schools. At the very least the schools in Queens will be an adversity filled character builder for your kid.

in 100% agreement. cardozo is a very good HS. somehow people think that the NYC subway, LIRR, metro north, etc. are like the transporter devices in star trek. it takes time to get around, people....often close to the driving commuting time.

[katek]

More specifically I will be working in Suffolk county.... Does anyone know any good areas to live/schools with easy transportation there to the city?

[mead]

Well Suffolk is pretty far out. What town in Suffolk are you looking at, because its a pretty big area. The commutes into the city on the LIRR can be pretty long in most cases 1 hr+

[samyn on the green]

Originally Posted by straightshooter

in 100% agreement. cardozo is a very good HS. somehow people think that the NYC subway, LIRR, metro north, etc. are like the transporter devices in star trek. it takes time to get around, people....often close to the driving commuting time.

Whats wrong with these people? You have to set the table properly before you can sit down and eat a nice meal the right way. Set up your life with efficiency and give yourself a chance to be happy and build some positive momentum. If your plan includes spending 22 hours a week in traffic driving from Westchester to Suffolk cty you are going to spread misery to all facets of your existence.