Is there anywhere else in NY State where you can get a NYC like experience? (New York: apartments, condos)
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Rochester and Buffalo each support metro areas of about 1.1 million people. While the cities in general are no match for NYC, there are some neighborhoods that have a pretty nice urban experience with housing, bars, restaurants, business, shopping, medical, etc that someone from NYC may feel comfortable in.
In Rochester, that would be pretty much the entire SE Quadrant. Neighborhood of the Arts, East Ave, Park Ave, Lower Monroe, Swillburg, the South Wedge. Maybe Corn Hill
In Buffalo there's Elmwood, Hertel and a few more
Maybe Downtown/Franklin Square/maybe North Salina Street(Little Italy, but one of the most culturally diverse areas in Upstate NY)/Hawley-Green/University Hill/University/Westcott in the core of Syracuse and on an even smaller scale, Ithaca. Downtown Syracuse’s Armory Square and Hanover Square are a couple of districts with nightlife and some shopping. Armory Square | Downtown Syracuse, New York
Crouse/Marshall and Westcott are a couple of districts near Syracuse University/SUNY Upstate Medical/SUNY-ESF that have restaurants and a little bit of other shopping. That latter area was recognized by the American Planning Association in 2008: https://www.planning.org/greatplaces...ersityhill.htm
Albany’s Center Square has the row house/brownstone housing and density, while being close to Downtown and other dense neighborhoods. Downtown Troy and the Downtown Schenectady/Stockade area are similar on a smaller scale in that area.
Same with Downtown Utica/Varick Street and Downtown Binghamton/State Street.
To the OP, in these other cities, you are really looking at core/select neighborhoods. Also, in these other cities, they are more in line with the size of a big neighborhood in a NYC borough.
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Stamford, CT
Jersey City, NJ near the waterfront
Philadelphia- Center City, Bustleton, Chestnut Hill, Fox Chase, Fishtown
Boston, MA
Miami- Miami Beach away from Ocean Drive, Brickell, EdgeWater, Coconut Grove, Midtown
Chicago- Lincoln Park, The Loop, Lakeview , Edison Park, South Loop
Great post. This places are more to what I was referring to. What I mean was, "Is there a place that's walkable" but has a lot of college students in that area who live there. I'll check the two suggestion you've outlined.
Definitely walkable - RVC is known for having decent nightlife - the clubs/bars are near the train station and is also home to Molloy College
Uniondale is accessible by buses via Hempstead Tpke(Route 24) and has the Mariott hotel and Nassau College
Some areas of Nassau can probably be described as "NYC Lite"
Just to add, all of those NY cities have a substantial college presence. I’d say that Ithaca more than any of them, with Syracuse up there(college students make up close to 20% of the population. Ithaca has Cornell, Ithaca College and TC3(a community college) in or near the city.
Syracuse besides the colleges mentioned earlier has Le Moyne College and Onondaga CC in/just outside of city limits.
Rochester has University of Rochester in the city, but RIT, Nazareth, St. John Fisher, Roberts Wesleyan, SUNY-Brockport and Monroe CC just outside of the city.
Buffalo, besides UB, has Buffalo State, Canisius, D’Youville, Medaille, Daemen, Hilbert, Trocaire and Villa Maria in/just outside of the city. Erie CC as well.
Albany has U Albany, Siena, St. Rose, Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Maria and Russell Sage(also in Troy). Troy has Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Hudson Valley CC. Schenectady has Union College and Schenectady CC.
Utica has Utica College, SUNY Poly/IT, Hamilton College and Mohawk Valley CC in/just outside of the city.
Binghamton has Binghamton University and Broome CC just outside of the city.
Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany all have medical schools. Let alone nursing schools in most of these cities.
So, as you can see, there is a big college presence in these cities and this is not including some others in most of these metro areas.
Forgot to mention some information about Ithaca’s Collegetown neighborhood near Cornell University. A street view: https://goo.gl/maps/vABYDdDmgw8JpN7d7
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