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Chelsea and West Village. My friend that I wrote about from Wisconsin lived with her 4 children in an apartment in Chelsea. You'd also have the high line. A popular playground with young children is Madison Square Park in the flat iron district. All of the museums have special children's events and programs. And don't forget the small (but perfect for young ones) Central Park Zoo.
I assure you many of the affluent young transplant families in Manhattan home school, at least until high school age.
UWS will be the most tolerant. I’ve lived in Chelsea. It’s overpriced and bland and the people are less friendly than uptown. The UWS is tons of families, right off the park, and lovely. IF you go just slightly north into the morningside heights area, or around Columbia, you can get just a little more space for the money as well without sacrificing a lot on commute time. Otherwise the area around 96th Street is the most family friendly and conveniently close to whole foods and trader joe’s and the American museum of natural history, with the met right across the park only ten blocks down and the children’s museum of manhattan in the 80s right below you.
TriBeCa has a lot of families but is more expensive and less green space than the UWS.
Try the Facebook group “UWS Mommas”. There’s real estate listings all the time for larger apartments with good deals, and you can ask around about the area and lifestyle and about leads on apartments.
UWS would be my first choice too. But there are really a lot of families now living in Chelsea surrounded by all of those public schools. There's a bakery on 6th Ave. that has cooking classes for kids and the library on 6th Ave. has a wonderful children's librarian with a killer story time. UWS has more green.
UWS is incredibly family friendly and a lovely neighborhood. You’ll need a 3 bedroom which is pricey but also easier to find there than other areas in the city.
I work on the Tribeca/Fidi border and if I could I would move to Jersey City in a heartbeat. You get more space for less money and that is a fantastic commute for your husband (if you live near the PATH it’s 20 minutes or less). Not sure what the Jersey hang up is, but I’ve never understood people’s hangups about that sort of thing. Growing up in Brooklyn, people used to make fun of that borough before it was “cool” and now it’s the hot spot. Now I live in Staten Island which people like to crap on too, so my guess is in 10 years it’ll be the hot area (and I won’t be able to afford it anymore haha). Anyway I’d give Jersey a chance if you don’t like the UWS. But you will because the UWS is gorgeous.
I work in Battery Park City, and I imagine it would be a great place to live if you can afford it. The neighborhood is filled with families. I know you homeschool, but if you change your mind about that, the Public schools in BPC are very highly rated. Your husband could walk to work. You could get by without a car, or just do Zipcar for trips out of the city.
A downside of the neighborhood is that it's pretty far from the subway, but there is a free bus that transverses the downtown area, and I see lots of kids on it with their parents or caregivers. There is an esplanade right next to the Hudson, and many BPC apartments have river views.
The F train doesn’t even stop in the Financial District. Whatever subway line they take, I think 40 minutes door-to-door is actually a pretty fair estimate assuming a short walk on both ends of the commute.
The f train jump across to the A/C at Jay St. to chambers st/wall st/Fulton st in 20 mins
Door to door is different. people are saying Merton north is an hour and 30. We all know that’s not door to door depending where they live in CT, he would most likely have to drive to a station as well. Same as the F if they live a block always that’s a 3 min walk, 10 blocks it’s obviously a longer commute
The f train jump across to the A/C at Jay St. to chambers st/wall st/Fulton st in 20 mins
Door to door is different. people are saying Merton north is an hour and 30. We all know that’s not door to door depending where they live in CT, he would most likely have to drive to a station as well. Same as the F if they live a block always that’s a 3 min walk, 10 blocks it’s obviously a longer commute
OP never indicated her estimates were subway travel time only. You chose to interpret it that way. Door-to-door, the numbers were in the right ballpark.
And the CT commute time of 1.5 hours is a fair door-to-door estimate as well, again assuming relatively short travel time from home to the train. The Metro North ride itself is about an hour from Stamford, Greenwich, etc.
These are all ballpark numbers anyway. I think the OP understands the general idea of comparing a commute from the suburbs vs. from an outer borough and the tradeoffs involved.
Perhaps OP is independently wealthy herself with a sizeable trust. Perhaps her husband is a surgeon. Perhaps her husband is a partner in a law firm. You are making assumptions and being rude. She asked for help in finding a place to live, not judgments on information we don’t even have.
You are so naive it's not even funny. You may think I'm mean and condescending but I'm just preparing you for reality.
It is gonna hit hard like a titanium rod and it's going to hurt. Especially when your husband gets edged out of his job. Unless of course again as I mentioned before - you have $1M in savings???
If not, then don't come. Period. You are out of your mind if you think you can hack it here with 3+ kids, a husband who is not independently wealthy and reliant on corporate employment with no income from you
Wake up!!! You are living in a dream world. This isn't Virginia.
You are and reported it as such.
Obviously no one ever sat you down to explain if you can't say anything nice or otherwise make a positive contribution....
OP has done nothing to deserve your abuse, and this makes the second infraction.
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