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No catch. PP is just a non-hip, old-fashioned, middle class NYC neighborhood. It is a stable area, safe, and the only drawback is distance from Manhattan via subway.
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No catch. PP is just a non-hip, old-fashioned, middle class NYC neighborhood. It is a stable area, safe, and the only drawback is distance from Manhattan via subway.
That and it's in The Bronx.If Pelham Parkway,with it's low crime rate,housing stock,shopping district, parks,etc were in Brooklyn or Queens and the same distance from midtown as it is ( 40 minutes),the prices would be at least 50% higher than they are.
I don't own a car but my area of Pelham Parkway,North of the Parkway and along and just East of Bronx Park East seems pretty car friendly.Friends and neighbors seem to have very little problem parking right outside my building or their buildings or within a block or so at anytime except late in the evening or in the middle of the night.I think parking is more problematical though in the more dense blocks South of Pelham Parkway between White Plains Rd and Barnes or Matthews.There is alt side but only 1 day a week.
There are lots of families in my building that have 2 cars and never seem to have a serious problem with parking.A surprising number of them work in Westchester so need cars for commuting.My building is a pre war and there is no garage but most of the 50's and 60's buildings in the neighborhood have garages, so I'm sure that relieves a lot of the pressure.
yea the distance is not that bad actually
but why is da bx more looked down upon? cuz from wat i seen theres many run down ghetto slums in ery boro so it all shud be based on a nhood not the boro its in
yea the distance is not that bad actually
but why is da bx more looked down upon? cuz from wat i seen theres many run down ghetto slums in ery boro so it all shud be based on a nhood not the boro its in
There is no logical answer.The entire Bronx was stigmatized by the events in The South Bronx in the 70's and 80's. The media was saturated with pictures and stories of crime,decay and abandonment.People came to fear The Bronx so much that they didn't want to set foot in it.There was so much bad press that the rest of the city forgot that there are many middle class neighborhoods that never declined at all.
The lack of genuine knowledge of The Bronx,even by many native NY'ers from other boroughs,is mind boggling.They often know almost nothing about the borough except how to get to Yankee Stadium and The Zoo and how to get on the Cross Bronx Expressway.They know nothing of the history of the neighborhoods,where the eighborhoods are or what they look like.There is a perception that it all looks the same when in fact The Bronx probably has the most diverse topography and housing stock of any borough in the city and there is an incredible variation from one area to the next.
It will probably take another 10 or 20 years for the stigma to fade.In the meantime there is still a large enough group of ignorant people who refuse to even consider The Bronx that real estate prices remain lower than comparable neighborhoods in other boroughs.Everyone wants to say they live in Manattan,nobody wants to say they live in The Bronx.
This whole phenomenon is exacerbated by the fact that the better Bronx neighborhoods are buried deep in the borough.In order to get to these eighborhoods you have to traverse all of Harlem and the South Bronx when there are many people who are still afraid to stay on trains north of 96th st.
There is no logical answer.The entire Bronx was stigmatized by the events in The South Bronx in the 70's and 80's. The media was saturated with pictures and stories of crime,decay and abandonment.People came to fear The Bronx so much that they didn't want to set foot in it.There was so much bad press that the rest of the city forgot that there are many middle class neighborhoods that never declined at all.
The lack of genuine knowledge of The Bronx,even by many native NY'ers from other boroughs,is mind boggling.They often know almost nothing about the borough except how to get to Yankee Stadium and The Zoo and how to get on the Cross Bronx Expressway.They know nothing of the history of the neighborhoods,where the eighborhoods are or what they look like.There is a perception that it all looks the same when in fact The Bronx probably has the most diverse topography and housing stock of any borough in the city and there is an incredible variation from one area to the next.
It will probably take another 10 or 20 years for the stigma to fade.In the meantime there is still a large enough group of ignorant people who refuse to even consider The Bronx that real estate prices remain lower than comparable neighborhoods in other boroughs.Everyone wants to say they live in Manattan,nobody wants to say they live in The Bronx.
This whole phenomenon is exacerbated by the fact that the better Bronx neighborhoods are buried deep in the borough.In order to get to these eighborhoods you have to traverse all of Harlem and the South Bronx when there are many people who are still afraid to stay on trains north of 96th st.
The Bronx is the terra incognita of NYC.
can commuting thru these hood train stations be a problem?
can commuting thru these hood train stations be a problem?
Not really.There is actually very little crime on the subways at all and most of what there is happens at midtown stations.Subways in NYC are statistically safer than the streets.
You do have to look at a lot of weirdos and crazies though and I guess some people are intimidated by that.
Aso, a lot of white people can't deal with being the only white person on a subway car and that happens sometimes.Their fears are all in their heads though.
what are some of the comparable nhoods to riverdale in qns and bk? like same kinda laid back, less dense and a lot of greenery, which ones are more expensive?
Some Queens areas that are comparable to Riverdale, would include: Douglaston, Little Neck, parts of Bayside, Whitestone, and Forest Hills Gardens. Forest Hills is similar demographically to some areas of Riverdale, but has higher density/development because of direct subway access versus the separation from the subway in Riverdale.
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
~William Shakespeare (As You Like It Act II, Scene VII)
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