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My wife and our four little kids are moving to Manhattan next summer. We are excited.... and nervous! We would like to be a 15-20 minute walk from the UN, in a neighborhood which is kid-friendly and might have 4 bedroom apartments. Please let me know if there are any neighborhoods you’d recommend and any other recommendations on how we can go about finding a place that may be furnished.
I would highly recommend Tudor City and the surrounding area. It’s very nice and right next to the UN. There are many options of apartments and buildings.
I’d also suggest Roosevelt Island because it’s diverse, safe, clean, family-friendly, good public schools. But the largest places there, IIRC, are only three bedrooms and you’d need subway and/or bus to get to the UN — although it would be a short commute.
Is being walking distance just a preference or a must have because of some health condition? If only the former, you have many other options in Queens or Manhattan. If you MUST be able to walk to the area, I’d also look at properties in Murray Hill or in West Midtown. In general, Murray Hill will be more expensive, upscale, and family- friendly. Here is an example: https://streeteasy.com/building/the-nash/apt11g
Big apartments are always expensive, of course, and no telling what prices will be when you get here. But I’d guess $5000 a month is a good baseline. Good luck and welcome to New York.
You have not told us your housing budget. What do you mean by "kid friendly?" There are private brownstone houses in the "turtle Bay" area of Manhattan very near to the UN. Maybe you can sublet a furnished brownstone there?
A budget would be helpful. Of course Upper East Side is ideal for families, but not everyone can afford that area. Here are the 3 areas from least expensive to more expensive:
Yorkville
Lenox Hill
Carnegie Hill
They're all great areas, and all all are family friendly. Lenox Hill would be closest to the UN.
Right now you can get a steal with rentals but if this pandemic is in the rear view mirror by summer time then the rents will probably start to go back up.
My wife and our four little kids are moving to Manhattan next summer. We are excited.... and nervous! We would like to be a 15-20 minute walk from the UN, in a neighborhood which is kid-friendly and might have 4 bedroom apartments. Please let me know if there are any neighborhoods you’d recommend and any other recommendations on how we can go about finding a place that may be furnished.
Thank you so much,
Lewis
Only areas remotely within a 15-20 minute walk to UN on East Side of Manhattan are Murray Hill, Turtle Bay, Beekman and Sutton Place. You might add a slice of Mid-Town east from Lexington avenue to maybe Third.
In any event large four bedroom apartments are extremely rare and highly sought after in city, especially Manhattan.
Basically you'd have to find either a Classic "Six" or "Seven" pre-war apartment, and even there you'd only get two or three bedrooms. You'd likely have to convert another room into a bedroom to make up difference.
Not near UN in terms of walking distance (well not in 15-20 minutes unless you walk very fast), but there's Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village which is south of United Nations.
Families that require that much space also turn to renting or buying a townhouse of which there are plenty in area of UN.
Finally though most certainly not in walking distance Harlem, Inwood and Washington Heights still have a decent supply of large apartments. But you'd have to be more nuanced about where you lived up there.
Someone mentioned Tudor City.... Despite overall size of that place there aren't many three or four bedroom apartments IIRC. Much of TC was originally built as residential hotel or efficiency apartments, not the grand pre-war scale at all.
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