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I lived i Chelsea for five years (years ago) and loved it. It is a busy neighborhood though. In the 20's its pretty quiet and residential but, these streets are still between busy avenues with tourist attractions. You won't get away from tourists in Chelsea. Busy= Noise, people, tourists. And tbh the rents are getting ridiculous. You'd probably get a better deal in the Upper West Side. Slightly bigger apartments, cheaper rent, less tourists, Central Park, better residential atmosphere, quietness and you still get shops and restaurants and train service.
I lived i Chelsea for five years (years ago) and loved it. It is a busy neighborhood though. In the 20's its pretty quiet and residential but, these streets are still between busy avenues with tourist attractions. You won't get away from tourists in Chelsea. Busy= Noise, people, tourists. And tbh the rents are getting ridiculous. You'd probably get a better deal in the Upper West Side. Slightly bigger apartments, cheaper rent, less tourists, Central Park, better residential atmosphere, quietness and you still get shops and restaurants and train service.
They're all also rather expensive. Why not Upper West Side? Live on one of those town home blocks with Riverside Park and Central Park either in your backyard or nearby. If you can afford the ones listed, you should be able to Upper West Side.
You'll probably find Upper West Side more charming than Chelsea (overdone with modern luxury buildings and a bit overpriced and pretentious now) and TriBeCa (now more of a place to work, nothing's really affordable down there and its got an eerie feeling to it, though the schools are good). SoHo I have to admit outside of Broadway is rather charming having lived and worked there for a year (albeit in TriBeCa's zipcode, but north of Houston). West Village and certainly Greenwich Village are also very nice in regards to what you're looking for. Washington Mews is an interestingly cute block.
The Upper West Side while expensive has TONS of homeless shelters. In fact, I was in Joe Coffee this morning on Columbus and 69th, and there was a homeless guy in there drinking coffee stinking up the place, with a shopping cart outside with all of his dirty belongings in it. No thank you. I'd go for TriBeCa. It's somewhat quiet in parts, and West Broadway has great shopping and restaurants.
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