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Old 09-29-2015, 06:05 PM
 
Location: Southwest Michigan/Miami Beach Miami
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I would focus on securing a job before contemplating a place to live. If you lived in Yonkers in Fleetwood (I think that's what the area is called) and had to work in Coney Island for some reason, you now have a 3 hour or very expensive car commute. A lot can happen in three years. I've seen the price range of the studios I wanted in Washington Heights jump from $1300 to $1600 in only a year. My return to NYC when I left in 2011 and returned in 2014 was even more astounding as what I found as affordable back in 2010-2011 was now astronomically more expensive.

Focus on your BSN and obtaining a job in or around the city, that'll be a better dictation of where you likely should live. Who knows, maybe Bayonne, NJ might be a better choice if your hospital is in Hudson County, NJ.
Don't worry I will definitley have a job lined up before I move anywhere..lol.


People keep saying White Plains is nice..! I'd have to check out Bayonne as well! Thanks for comment!
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Old 09-29-2015, 06:07 PM
 
Location: Southwest Michigan/Miami Beach Miami
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Yonkers has some good areas and some areas that are problematic. You would want to avoid the Getty Square area of SW Yonkers because you do not want an area that has a higher incidence of crime.

What about The Bronx? You can live in a good neighborhood and have access to Manhattan and other areas of The Bronx with easy transportation. At least starting out, this might not be a bad option, since you will want to reassess for schools when the time comes that you have children and decide what type of school you want, and what system is best for your needs. Parts of Queens would also be good bets, especially if you work on Long Island or Manhattan, and parking is not as difficult. Car insurance is higher in the city, lowest in Manhattan and highest in Brooklyn, and you would also pay city resident income tax, but might not be a bad option when single, depending upon the hospital.

Yonkers does not have a great reputation for schools, but two standout magnet schools that are top-ranked. The problem is due to a desegregation order that makes every school in the city a magnet school, essentially, with no guarantees as to the local neighborhood school. The elite schools, Pearls Hawthorne and Yonkers High, grant admission by examination and Yonkers High is an IB curriculum only.

White Plains would be another consideration for a suburban edge city as it is not as sleepy as the towns and villages of Westchester, and offers proximity to hospitals in Westchester and Lower Fairfield County with ease, as well as a decent commute to The Bronx and Manhattan.

There are many options in the area, and you should be able to find something at the price point you want, but I agree that it would depend upon hospital as to which one would be best suited to your criteria. If you were to work at say Columbia Presbyterian, you could live right across the bridge in Fort Lee, NJ and have easy city access, ability to keep the car, and a safe area in which to live, with a relatively easy commute to work. If you were to work at NYU-Langone, you might find Queens or Brooklyn to offer an easier commute, or even Long Island as you could take the LIRR to Penn Station and the select bus across 34th Street. New York - Cornell is very far east, so the commute options could be a little more limited, but you could take an express bus to The Bronx and travel to Queens with relative ease. Driving could be easier, but more expensive. If you were at the Hospital for Special Surgery, it's similar to New York Hospital in that it's basically at the East River. There are so many different systems and campuses, from Mount Sinai on 5th Avenue, close to the UES/East Harlem border to Lenox Hill to Columbia Presbyterian, etc. in Manhattan alone, such that it would be difficult to narrow down a specific area of focus until you know where you would be working as there can be nuances to a commute that could make it much harder from one place than another, especially at peak hours.

Thanks for the great info! I've thought about the Bronx as well..what are some good neighborhoods please? Also, why is insurance so expensive in Brooklyn vs Manhattan? I'd think with all the concentration of people in Manhattan during rush hour and other hours it would be more!
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Old 09-29-2015, 06:17 PM
 
Location: Southwest Michigan/Miami Beach Miami
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stay away from yonkers i have lived here over 6 years its very dirty the only clean place is the river front and the rent there is about the same as a one bedroom in the city they start at 1,800 yes the amenities are great *gym indoors, laundry in the unit, movie center some cool stuff but yonkers is disgusting i swear there is a shooting every night
a police mobile command center on so many corners the place is full of drugs, prostitutes roam the streets late at night
its disgusting. i'm moving soon
Okay, thank you. I will visit before I move and stay up to a week or two to get a feel.
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Old 09-29-2015, 06:17 PM
 
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If we're talking about Nurses that have completed all their schooling already then you would be correct. But for those simply with a BSN which is what the OP would be in three years, that is what he would typically start off making. I worked directly with HR on a number of hires at Maimonides as well as a local surgery center nearby and the salaries were surprisingly low. Nothing fishy, it's just what it was for those who simply had a bachelor's. This was 2 years ago. I doubt things have changed that much since then.
Don't know what you mean by "simply" a bachelor's degree. A BSN is now the standard for most hospitals in NYC area and elsewhere as opposed to an ADN at least for new grads. Experienced associate graduates depending upon speciality and the facility's situation may be hired but usually will be informed he or she needs to complete their BSN within a certain time period to remain employed.

Now ADN nurses are a different story. New grads there are finding it very difficult to find work and their wage/compensation packages probably are less, how much so would vary.

Surgery centers, outpatient settings, clinics, ambulatory care, etc... all usually pay less than hospital/bedside. I stated clearly in my post this point that the money was to be found there, not elsewhere.
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Old 09-29-2015, 06:51 PM
 
Location: Washington, DC & New York
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Thanks for the great info! I've thought about the Bronx as well..what are some good neighborhoods please? Also, why is insurance so expensive in Brooklyn vs Manhattan? I'd think with all the concentration of people in Manhattan during rush hour and other hours it would be more!
Brooklyn has a higher incidence of loss and for many years was the capital of insurance fraud, so the rates tend to be significantly higher. Manhattan has many garaged cars and losses are not as substantial, since many of the cars that travel during rush hours are commercial or are registered out of the city.

In the Bronx, I would look to a convenient area like Pelham Parkway, parts of Kingsbridge (west of Broadway and above 231st Street), Riverdale, Morris Park, Pelham Gardens, and Woodlawan. Woodlawn is a very Irish neighborhood and Riverdale tends to have more of a Jewish presence with some Irish, though there are other groups in the area, but neither area is especially diverse, though areas like Spuyten Duyvil and other large apartment areas in Riverdale do tend to have black and mixed race couples. I know two who have resided there for many years without issue, and know other black families in Riverdale, where being a responsible professional who likes a quiet neighborhood tends to be more of a factor -- since the color that matters in that area is green. While there are predominant ethnic groups in various neighborhoods, the borough is diverse, and you should not have a problem in many areas, although Woodlawn can be very insular when it comes to finding available rentals for non-Irish.

There are also more good areas than the Greystone area in Yonkers. Lawrence Park, where Sarah Lawrence is located is in the City of Yonkers, and houses are indistinguishable from nearby areas of Bronxville, to the point where many who do not know the area assume Sarah Lawrence is in Bronxville, but that's just the zip code overlay. Crestwood is another nice residential neighborhood in Yonkers, but I would tend to avoid the immediate streets in the vicinity of the casino, owing to the largely commercial/industrial makeup of the immediate vicinity, and the traffic because of the casino, Cross County Plaza, and the terrible interchange of the Cross County Parkway and I-87, which is a series of disconnected ramps that uses the service roads for the thruway that also carry casino and shopping traffic. There are a number of apartments off Midland Avenue, for example, that are also good, close to Bronxville, but parking can be an issue as many were built without parking, and/or when families had one car. Bronxville has municipal lots in walking distance, but they are solely for the use of Village residents, as you cannot get a permit otherwise, for overnight parking, so that can be a drawback if you do not have dedicated parking in that area of Yonkers.

Yonkers also has an income tax surcharge that you file with your NYS taxes that is 10% of your NYS tax liability. So, if you pay $10k in NYS tax, you pay an additional $1k to Yonkers.
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Old 09-30-2015, 02:36 PM
 
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Since we are talking about Yonkers, check out this new development planned for Downtown Y.O. along the Hudson River. They just broke ground the other day on a new development in the area as well. Who knows, Maybe the waterfront of Yonkers might resemble the waterfront of LIC in the coming years.

RXR-Rising JV to Build $197M High-Rise Project in Yonkers - Daily News Article - GlobeSt.com
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