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Misleading title, those are not the most affordable neighborhoods. The most affordable neighborhoods are in Southeast Queens and they're kind of overpriced for what they are.
This is a silly article. They are basing this all on "median resale price" of each neighborhood. OF COURSE a neighborhood with an extremely large percentage of apartments (vs. houses) is going to have a lower median price than a neighborhood that is mostly houses, because anytime a studio apartment sells it might be around $150K and therefore brings the overall median way down. Even a one bedroom apartment priced at $350K is going to bring a median down if you're comparing it to a neighborhood where almost all sales are single or multi family properties.
I sometimes hate what people do with numbers.
And yes, I do live in one of those 5 neighborhoods. It may be affordable compared with gentrified Brooklyn, and compared to Astoria and LIC, but there is no way that it's more affordable than the vast portion of Queens where you have to take a bus to the train.
This is a silly article. They are basing this all on "median resale price" of each neighborhood. OF COURSE a neighborhood with an extremely large percentage of apartments (vs. houses) is going to have a lower median price than a neighborhood that is mostly houses, because anytime a studio apartment sells it might be around $150K and therefore brings the overall median way down. Even a one bedroom apartment priced at $350K is going to bring a median down if you're comparing it to a neighborhood where almost all sales are single or multi family properties.
I sometimes hate what people do with numbers.
And yes, I do live in one of those 5 neighborhoods. It may be affordable compared with gentrified Brooklyn, and compared to Astoria and LIC, but there is no way that it's more affordable than the vast portion of Queens where you have to take a bus to the train.
Flushing, Jamaica. St Albans, Springfield Gardens not affordable ?
The strange thing is that Forest Hills and Kew Gardens are affordable (and I agree they are), but yet very few poor people live there.
I really don't get it.
The strange thing is that Forest Hills and Kew Gardens are affordable (and I agree they are), but yet very few poor people live there.
I really don't get it.
I just looked up Forest Hills rents and it doesn't really seem affordable for poor people, even if it's affordable by NYC standards.
The strange thing is that Forest Hills and Kew Gardens are affordable (and I agree they are), but yet very few poor people live there.
I really don't get it.
The strange thing is that Forest Hills and Kew Gardens are affordable (and I agree they are), but yet very few poor people live there.
I really don't get it.
Forest Hills should not even be in this discussion as it is overall an upper middle class area. Am not even including Forest Hills Gardens, which is in and of itself is one of the most expensive parts of Queens, right up there with Neponsit and Douglaston. Kew Gardens is only slightly cheaper than Forest Hills. Solid middle class with upper middle class pockets.
The strange thing is that Forest Hills and Kew Gardens are affordable (and I agree they are), but yet very few poor people live there.
I really don't get it.
The only poor people who would live in a neighborhood where one bedrooms rent for $2000/mo are people who have been there forever and have low stabilitzed or controlled rents, or are in NYCHA (I don't think there are any NYCHAs in Forest Hills).
I suppose poor people could also live in a house packed to the gills with people while the city turns a blind eye to the illegal overcrowding conditions.
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