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My girlfriend just recently took a job in Manhattan and I myself am also closing in on a job there. We are looking to move from Central Jersey to closer to the wall street NY area in June. Manhattan is a bit out of our range at the moment and Queens the commute is to far it would be like staying in New Jersey. So we are looking for advice on some good areas in Jersey that are relatively safe and the commute will be under 30 minutes by bus, have a good school system as she has a son in high school. The commute is not toooo far from Manhattan. We looking for an area filled with lots of young business type professionals. We are both in our mid to late 30's. We just need a two bedroom apartment. Furnished or not does not matter. With apartments for two bedrooms around $1400 to $1700 which would be about our range. Does anyone recommend any areas to look or places in particular. Or even the best ways to search as well. Like what papers you recommend we look in? and such
An under-30 minute by bus commute to Wall Street would most likely be Staten Island... that's how long it takes my coworkers who live there. I can't think of anywhere in NJ where you could get that. i'd suggest Rutherford but that's a minimum of 45-1 hour to the WTC area where I work
I am not sure if it will make a big difference but can you explain why it has to be by bus? Train is an option as well. Seriously though , 30 minutes is pretty tough by either way realistically. Is it bus because the job is midtown?
Yes, that 30-minute commute with good schools and low rent thing has become almost a joke on this forum because it's so unrealistic, yet so many people think it exists. It's wishful thinking and a waste of time.
Make the commute 45 to an hour, and people can give you suggestions in that rent range for real. Rutherford is indeed a good option, but the desire to commute by bus rather than train is perplexing, especially for downtown. From the Bergen County Line station in Rutherford, one can easily get to Hoboken then a short hop by PATH or ferry to WTC, while someone with a job in Midtown simply makes the easy transfer at Secaucus. I can't think of any reason someone would rather be stuck in LT or HT traffic sucking in bus exhaust.
Wall Street is downtown, and I agree w/ everyone that 30min is unrealistic. Heck, it pretty much takes 30min to get to Wall Street from most areas even when living IN Manhattan.
The only place that can be done in your budget is Journal Square in Jersey City. Journal Square - WTC (11 minutes via PATH).
But the high schools are pretty terrible.
Rutherford won't get you there in 30 minutes. It took me 42 minutes from door to Hoboken PATH platform from most parts of town, then you have the ride into WTC plus walking to the building when you get out at WTC. Realistically, you're looking at 1 hour door to door from most of the train towns to WTC, at least.
Rutherford won't get you there in 30 minutes. It took me 42 minutes from door to Hoboken PATH platform from most parts of town, then you have the ride into WTC plus walking to the building when you get out at WTC. Realistically, you're looking at 1 hour door to door from most of the train towns to WTC, at least.
If the kid is academically inclined McNair and High Tech High HS are a few of the best. If not, I agree with you.
Bus does not matter its just what I wrote. and for her is wall street considered midtown?
OK, that just made my head do a 360. Didn't expect that from someone who is from NJ! Wall Street is down near the southern tip of Manhattan, where New York began back when it was a Dutch colony called Nieuw Amsterdam. The people running the little village back then got everyone who lived there to help build a wall to keep out Indians--hence the name of the street. Of course, in the past four hundred years, the city spread north across the entire island, but still--you should be familiar with the basic geography of Manhattan--a long, skinny island directly
east of northern New Jersey.
If you are going to move up that way and work there, you need to look at a basic map of Manhattan that includes the northeastern side of NJ and see where towns and railroad lines, etc., are in relation to the city.
Here is one tool that is helpful--a map that gives approximate commute times to MIDTOWN (NY Penn).
See how Manhattan sort of runs ALONGSIDE North Jersey? And how you have to cross a mile-wide river to get to Manhattan? That's the problem with the commute time. About 250K people are trying to cross that same river--by bridge or by tunnel, whether in cars or in trains, or by ferry--at the same time every weekday. Things get a little backed up.
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