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I check on -street adviser - say pelham bay is #30 on the list. On Wikipedia say it is upper middle class good neighborhood. Which one is correct answer?
Looking for two family house budge $650k. Bronx is right choice? I don't require school system, so prefer the property tax is reasonable.
-- I am working in grand central. Prefer subway system for commute. Train and bus are secondary.
---safe neighborhood is priority.
---direct subway access is good for me.
Pelham Bay and neighboring Country Club are good neighborhoods by BX standards. The latter lacks subway access, so the former, as the terminus for the 6 train (which goes to Grand Central) would be better for you.
I check on -street adviser - say pelham bay is #30 on the list. On Wikipedia say it is upper middle class good neighborhood. Which one is correct answer?
Looking for two family house budge $650k. Bronx is right choice? I don't require school system, so prefer the property tax is reasonable.
-- I am working in grand central. Prefer subway system for commute. Train and bus are secondary.
---safe neighborhood is priority.
---direct subway access is good for me.
Thank you!
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Pelham Bay is not "upper middle class" though it is pretty much solidly middle class.The only upper middle class areas of The Bronx are parts of Riverdale ,parts of Pelham Gardens just above Pelham Parkway and parts of Morris Park,just below Pelham Parkway.
Best bet for a combination of very nice middle to upper middle class area and short walk to the subway is the Pelham Gardens/Pelham Parkway/Indian Village(subsection of Morris Park) area.Boundaries are Waring Ave to the North Wickham Avenue on the East,Rhinelander Avenue on the South and Williamsbridge Rd on the West.The neighborhood is served by the 5 train which takes about 30 minutes to/from Grand Central during rush hours when there are express trains and 35 to 40 minutes on off peak(local) trains.
Pelham Bay,the rest of Pelham Parkway(West,North and South of Williamsbridge Rd),the rest of Morris Park(aka "lower Morris Park" and Bedford Park and Van Cortlandt Village are all nice areas close to subways but could never be called "upper middle" class.Most of Riverdale, Woodlawn and Throg's Neck( including Country Club) are also very nice of course but a bit far from subways.Woodlawn and Riverdale do have Metro North to Grand Central though.
All in all,I'd say Indian Village(Pelham Parkway/Morris Park) might be your best bet.
The issue I have with Pelham Bay if you work in Grand Central area is the long commute...and you have access to only 1 train line: the 6. I will agree with Bluedog and say that it is most definitely not upper middle class..I would say it is working/middle class and increasingly becoming a working/middle class Hispanic enclave, much like Throggs Neck. As the old school Italians die off, Hispanics of all kinds are moving in and taking their place...however the neighborhood feel stays the same (clean, suburbany) with more/better amenities.
I agee with everything else Bluedog states regarding Morris Park, Pelham Gardens, and Indian Village however. You might consider Woodlawn (an entirely ex-pat Irish community) as it has metro-north service and about 20 minutes to Grand Central.
Pelham Bay and neighboring Country Club are good neighborhoods by BX standards. The latter lacks subway access, so the former, as the terminus for the 6 train (which goes to Grand Central) would be better for you.
They are good neighborhoods by broader standards as well.
Some say Melrose and Longwood. But at this point i would only recommend them to ppl coming from the inner rust bowl of Cleveland, Richmond, Buffalo etc. Or Roxbury, Boston.
Melrose and Longwood, while I personally think are choice locations, are likely not valid recommendations as they still have higher than average crime and the lingering stigma from decades of turbulence. If safety, or rather the perception of safety, is a high priority, particularly for those who are not accustomed to living around urban people of color, then Melrose and Longwood are not the best choices in the Bronx (for them).
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