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Hey there! This is an embarassing question to ask since I'm a native New Yorker, but I live in Staten Island in Great Kills/Eltingville area and the only parts of the other boroughs that I know are around 86th street in Brooklyn (I'm from Dyker Heights originally moved out when my parents got sick of paying for private school in junior high) and the area of Manhattan around Union Square/Astor Place and where my dad works by Rockefeller center.
I am 20, I work in Park Slope, and me, my girlfriend and my best friend are looking to get an apartment. Both to be around "cool" stuff and also since we all work in Brooklyn and are sick of paying the VZ bridge toll.
Here is what we want:
2 bedroom nice (non-railroad, no bedbugs, no roaches, no drug dealers on the stoop) place preferably under $2500 but definitely under $3 grand
Cool stuff to do, clubs and stuff. We aren't hipster we are pretty average people.
Non-impossible street parking. We are 3 people bringing 3 cars and we can't give em up. The subway is something I use to avoid a DUI but can't bare to be one of the sardine commuters.
Nice neighborhood but not too "much" if you know what I mean. Like I said we are a bunch of kids from the south shore and in places like Park Slope and Williamsburg around the L train I feel out of place. Somewhere with a mix of newcomers and New Yawkers, not trendyville USA.
Take a look around me. Ridgewood, Glendale, Maspeth and Middle Village. Its close to both Brooklyn and Manhattan. South Shore kids should fit in just fine. Its not ghetto, not Brooklyn-trendy, and has some newcomers. Its made up mostly of New Yorkers.
A really cool place would be in Whitestone - somewhere near the shoreline like Powells Cove or Bay Vista which has some apartment buildings. The sea breeze in the summer provides welcome relief from NYC heat waves. During the fall/winter, you feel the wind chill coming from the sea at its fullest effect. Now THAT is cool!
Take a look around me. Ridgewood, Glendale, Maspeth and Middle Village. Its close to both Brooklyn and Manhattan. South Shore kids should fit in just fine. Its not ghetto, not Brooklyn-trendy, and has some newcomers. Its made up mostly of New Yorkers.
Thank you! I found one by the Myrtle/Wyckoff station, how is that area? It's a 2 bedroom for $1900 which is way below our budget
Oh okay. Is this a bad area? That why it's so cheap?
It's more hood, plus that is where the hipsters seem to be moving to.
You mention you have cars, if that's the case I would avoid Ridgewood and look into Maspeth, Middle Village, or Upper Glendale. Parking around there is terrible.
It's more hood, plus that is where the hipsters seem to be moving to.
You mention you have cars, if that's the case I would avoid Ridgewood and look into Maspeth, Middle Village, or Upper Glendale. Parking around there is terrible.
Thanks that makes sense. I know it's on the L line which is hipsterlandia but I didn't realize that they had gotten that far down the line.
I see another one $2100 3 bedrooms by Grand Ave/69th street, advertised as Maspeth..looks like one of those Bensonhurst townhouses. How is it over there?
Thanks that makes sense. I know it's on the L line which is hipsterlandia but I didn't realize that they had gotten that far down the line.
I see another one $2100 3 bedrooms by Grand Ave/69th street, advertised as Maspeth..looks like one of those Bensonhurst townhouses. How is it over there?
That's a good area. That's pretty much right at the heart of Maspeth.
Last edited by DoomDan515; 04-12-2015 at 04:27 PM..
Oh okay. Is this a bad area? That why it's so cheap?
To DoomDan's point, the further away from Brooklyn the less hood and hipster it gets, and more NY native it gets. But at same time it doesn't necessarily get any more expensive because you might not be walking distance to a subway stop. So if you will rely primarily by car, you can get more for your money in a safer part of town. For $3000 you might be able to rent an entire house around here with a short bus ride to the subway.
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