DIARY
We’re looking for an “affordable” studio or 1-bedroom by late August. According to the Newcomber’s Handbook and www.newyorkmetro.com, here are some breakdowns:
PRESUMED WITHIN OUR PRICE RANCE:
in Manhattan: Chelsea, East Village, Hamilton Heights and Morningside Heights, Harlem, the Lower East Side, NoLita, and NoHo.
in Brooklyn: Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, Fort Greene, Greenpoint and Williamsburg, Kensington, Park Slope, Prospect Heights and Windsor Terrace, and Red Hook.
in Queens: Astoria and Long Island City
PRESUMED TOO EXPENSIVE:
in Manhattan: Gramercy Park, Greenwich Village and the West Village, Hell’s Kitchen, Lower Manhattan, Murray Hill, SoHo, Sutton Place, TriBeCa, the Upper East Side, and the Upper West Side.
in Brooklyn: DUMBO
WHO KNOWS?:
(we don’t have any rental rate information)
in Manhattan: East Forties and Fifties, Flatiron District, Inwood, Lincoln Center Area, Midtown, Roosevelt Island, Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, Yorkville
in the Bronx: City Island, Pelham Parkway, Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil
in Brooklyn: Bay Ridge, Flatbush, Fort Hamilton, and Stuyvesant Heights.
in Queens: Bayside, Douglaston, Flushing, Forest Hills, Jamaica Estates, Kew Gardens, Middle Village, Rego Park, Richmond Hill, Ridgewood, Sunnyside, Whitestone
on Staten Island: Grymes Hill and Silver Lake, St. George, Stapleton
in New Jersey: Bayonne, Cliffside Park, Englewood, Fort Lee and Edgewater, Hoboken, Jersey City, Leonia, Montclair, Ridgewood, South Orange, Summit, Teaneck, Tenafly, Weehaawken, Westfield
Elsewhere: Bronxville, Dobbs Ferry, Edgemont, Garden City, Great Neck, Greenwich, Manhasset, Mamaroneck, Mt. Kisco, New Rochelle, Norwalk, Old Westbury, Pelham, Port Washington, Rockville Centre, Scarsdale, Stamford, Tarrytown, Westport, White Plains
OFF THE RADAR:
(we don’t really have any information on these places… should we?)
in the Bronx: Co-Op City, Fordham, Highbridge, Hunts Point, Mott Haven, Parkchester, Throgs Neck, Tremont
in Brooklyn: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bensonhurst, Brighton Beach, Bushwick, Coney Island, Canarsie, Crown Heights, East New York, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay
in Queens: Arverne, Belle Harbor, College Point, Far Rockaway, Hammel, Hollis, Howard Beach, Jamaica, Little Neck, Maspeth, Ozone Park, Queens Village, Valley Stream, Woodhaven
on Staten Island: Great Hills, Howland Hook, Huguenot, Mariners Harbor, New Dorp Beach, New Springville, Port Richmond, Richmondtown, Rosebank, Tottenville, West New Brighton
And now you get to put in your two cents, if you have such. Where should we move, and why?