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LIC is industrial but down by the water there are beautiful views of the city. Not to mention you're one stop from the city on the E train. LIC is pricey because of proximity and easy access to the city. I've been working in LIC for 10 years and I have seen major improvements and clean-up.
Its close to the job centers in MIDTOWN Manhattan, basically a train stop or two away. And so LIC is expensive and reflects that, particularly with the big improvements in the neighborhood.
These are a small sampling of properties from various zip codes. I've lived in several of these areas when I lived in NYC. You don't get to see the entire surrounding area but you can get a sense of what it would be. And yeah, this is third world living at its finest.
Point being, the Bronx is a large borough. Yeah, it definitely has its share of blighted areas and lots of PJs/tenements. The above person who posted the following is right -- if that's all you see of the borough when you're driving on a highway, of course your perception is going to be skewed. The Bronx does have an image problem. The political leadership for many years stank and was corrupt. However, most of the Bronx natives know that there is more to the borough than what the media portrays and what you look at as you're driving on the Cross Bronx. I was born and raised in the Bronx. I purchased real estate in the Bronx. And if I return to NYC, I'm moving to the Bronx. I didn't have a worse life growing up in the Bronx than my children, who are being raised in a suburban environment.
As long as the Bronx has hoards of public housing it will always be run down. Look where the nice parts of the Bronx are... In isolated pockets where there are few to no housing projects... Woodlawn, Morris Park, City Island, Pelham Bay, Country Club, parts of Throggs Neck, Edgewater, Schuylerville, etc. These are the few good parts of the Bronx and they all relatively isolated or further out and generally more suburban in feel and even those are changing as more White flight occurs.
The day that Riverdale has housing projects is the day that I would move immediately!! The old saying There goes the neighborhood rang true with most of the Bronx years ago.
What a bunch of crap. The Bronx is no different from any other borough. What it suffers from is dated perceptions from several of the uninformed posters here.
What a bunch of crap. The Bronx is no different from any other borough. What it suffers from is dated perceptions from several of the uninformed posters here.
because it's getting too expensive to live anywhere
and that is very stressing and depressing.
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