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A character of mine lives in NYC - at least for now he does, in my head. Unfortunately I don't have the cash to come there for research and while this is really only for-fun writing, details do matter.
I'm wanting to know if anyone here can help me with locale for his dwelling. This character is ah... well, he would want and need privacy. He claims to be a freelance architectural consultant, so I would think he'd have little problem with insider information on say, an abandoned warehouse/factory for sale. Between that freelance connection and his own money, he would definitely be able to rehab the place. I'm thinking something maybe 4/5 stories if that makes a difference as to where it would be. Also, well I mean who wouldn't want a view? I'm not thinking it has to be of the traditional omg NYC skyline you know? But something noteworthy anyhow. He doesn't want to be looking into the back of a Denny's. I was thinking something isolated, by the river somewhere, by the port? It wouldn't matter if it's a 'bad' or outright dangerous neighborhood. In fact, that might be for the better.
I'm sure there are many, many choices and I'm sorry if I was vague. Any help you can lend is appreciated and if you need more input, just ask.
A freelance consultant probably would not be able to afford a river view and especially 4 or 5 stories. You might want to consider moving him to Boise with a view of the river there instead.
Maybe Red Hook in Brooklyn (not Red Hook, NY, which is a town upstate). But your character should be extremely wealthy to be able to afford even an abandoned loft building in a bad area. Property doesn't come cheap.
There's no way someone like this could afford a 4/5 story building, even if it were abandoned, in terrible condition, and sold at auction. The property value alone is worth a lot of money... certainly millions if it's big enough to fit a warehouse.
You could try going the route that he's been left the property by a deceased relative... otherwise you will have to get really creative. Maybe the character doesn't need a whole building, just a floor on a building. Maybe he has a friend who owns property and doesn't mind letting him occupy one of them. Or maybe the character is just independently wealthy somehow.
Is this going to be contemporary NYC, or will it be set in the past or future? That can significantly change which locations would be believable for this building. There's a lot of waterfront on the east side of the East River that has been redeveloped in the past 10 years, and it doesn't look like that trend will end soon.
That's about all I can add because I haven't lived here long. I only know my little part of Queens, and parts of Manhattan.
A freelance consultant probably would not be able to afford a river view and especially 4 or 5 stories. You might want to consider moving him to Boise with a view of the river there instead.
Trust me, he has an... inheritance as well, you could say. Connections. He can afford to buy and rehab, to be sure. Boise would bore him to tears
There's no way someone like this could afford a 4/5 story building, even if it were abandoned, in terrible condition, and sold at auction. The property value alone is worth a lot of money... certainly millions if it's big enough to fit a warehouse.
You could try going the route that he's been left the property by a deceased relative... otherwise you will have to get really creative. Maybe the character doesn't need a whole building, just a floor on a building. Maybe he has a friend who owns property and doesn't mind letting him occupy one of them. Or maybe the character is just independently wealthy somehow.
Is this going to be contemporary NYC, or will it be set in the past or future? That can significantly change which locations would be believable for this building. There's a lot of waterfront on the east side of the East River that has been redeveloped in the past 10 years, and it doesn't look like that trend will end soon.
That's about all I can add because I haven't lived here long. I only know my little part of Queens, and parts of Manhattan.
He has inheritance. Money isn't really a problem for someone of his nature and with the ah, um, associates he has, sort of how you could say, family associates, capische?
Contemporary NYC. But something, rather uncommercially developed, something more isolated.
PS: I've been in AR for 3 months. I hate it. I'm a Cleveland girl and I wanna go home.
Trust me, he has an... inheritance as well, you could say. Connections. He can afford to buy and rehab, to be sure. Boise would bore him to tears
Now you are making things up as you go along just make the inheritance a big one and invest in a list of
vanity publishers--- there are just too many good stories about New York City I am serious I would set the scene in Little Rock and make him an unknown lost brother of a governor who runs for president
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