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Actually OP, You should watch the movie "5 Flights UP". Its a movie about a couple played by Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman, pondering selling their walk up apartment. Its a few years old and It's on Netflixs.
Obviously its fiction but the situation is a reality for some NY-ers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Flights_Up
That movie reminds of Barefoot in the Park where the mother had to walk up those flights of stairs and got all out of breath.
Anyway, even is some elevator buildings, they can also be walk up apartments, if you get my drift. Has anyone ever seen The Big Bang Theory and that takes place in SoCal.
Actually OP, You should watch the movie "5 Flights UP". Its a movie about a couple played by Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman, pondering selling their walk up apartment. Its a few years old and It's on Netflixs.
Obviously its fiction but the situation is a reality for some NY-ers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Flights_Up
It's really unfair to call them walk-ups. I mean, you need to walk down those steps too. Either way, walking up the steps is just as rough as the going up.
They should be walk-up-and-downs, logically.
Nobody complains about the walk down. If they had an escalator going up only, so that you had to walk down, I'm not sure people would complain so much (unless you are carrying a baby and carriage).
Just remember LIVING in NYC is Farrrrrrrrrr different than visiting. It will get real old, real fast. It isnt like a sitcom on tv.
Forget a walkup, try walking on slanted, ice covered sidewalks then down 100, ice covered stairs to the subway w 300 aggravated people trying to get around you. Fun!
Given there are so many thieves these days, apartment buildings "should" have a locked area in the lobby where stuff could be stored, temporarily.
They do have those in large buildings. It's called the storage room, where you pay for space.
You do know space is a sought after in NYC. Every sq ft of space is a premium. Some buildings have lobby's that are smaller then a closet. Especially walk ups. Many don't have any actual lobby its a narrow hall to a stair case.
Just remember LIVING in NYC is Farrrrrrrrrr different than visiting. It will get real old, real fast. It isnt like a sitcom on tv.
Forget a walkup, try walking on slanted, ice covered sidewalks then down 100, ice covered stairs to the subway w 300 aggravated people trying to get around you. Fun!
Ha ha.
This is why I plan on only being there during Springs and Falls.
I'm not as dumb as I look.
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