Looking for safe place to live near MANHATTAN!!!!..?

Question

Hi...I just got a new job around lower Central Park though paying $2000 a month for a single person is a bit ridiculous for me.
Im looking to live around New Jersey, Bronx or Queens maximum $1800. Can someone give me a few pointers on great SAFE neighbourhoods to live? And near transportation. A view of Manhattan would be great too. Thanx and have a good day.

Answer 1

You can find good 1-bedroom apartments in good parts of NJ for under $1000. The further out, the cheaper. Avoid Westchester and Nassau Counties--they're pricey--as are the good parts of Hudson County (NJ). Queens and parts of Brooklyn can give you good deals. Good luck.

Answer 2

I lived in Carroll Gardens for 18 months and with the Smith street eateries and a couple of trendy bars it is a nice place to live. The brownstones are pretty quiet on the side streets, and it is close enough to the city on the F line to be handy to the city. There are a couple of other areas very close there, Boerum Hill and Cobble hill are also nice if you can find an apartment you can lock into at a good price. Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo are a little more pricey right now, but depends on the size of the space. Our rent in CG was 1500 for a garden apartment of about 600sqf. the upstairs 3 apartments were floorthrough and renting at 1700 for each 2 br, about 15 months ago.

Answer 3

I used to live in Astoria and I really loved it for the first year. You could get some decent deals for apartments and it's very close to the city. However, in my 2nd and 3rd years, I noticed that it was becoming quite popular at night with lots of new bars and lounges opening all the time and the nights become more noisy as we began having to listen to drunk people screaming, yelling, fighting, singing, etc. on their way home from the bars nearly every morning between 2-5am. The nicer parts of Astoria are farther from the train and less convenient, but there are some really nice and quiet areas, especially near Ditmars Blvd. I don't know what the price ranges are in those neighborhoods. We did look at a couple of apartments there and it was anywhere from $1100 for a 1 bedroom to $1600 for a 2 bedroom, but the prices on apartments began to skyrocket as new buildings started springing up all over Astoria. We decided to move and just recently relocated to Bayridge, Brooklyn. The side streets are very quiet, there's lots of nice restaurants and shops on 3rd and 4th Ave and we live in a 2 bedroom apt. that is $1400 a month. My husband works right off of Central Park South and it takes him about 50 minutes to get to work. Which is a long ride, but our neighborhood makes it worth it. As far as a view, most of the apartment buildings aren't tall enough to see Manhattan, but the R train is right along 4th Ave. and it makes lots of connecting stops to other trains, including express trains. There are also express buses all over which take about 20 minutes to get to downtown.

Answer 4

I live in Cranbury, New Jersey and we're 1 hour away from NYC
We pay around $1200 per month for a 2 bedroom 2 bath
There's a train station called Princeton Junction 15 minutes from our place by car and you can be in NYC's Grand Central in an hour.
We used to live in Queens (Astoria) and paid $1600 per month but we got tired of living with mice (that's the tradeoff for living in the city, you gotta live with the rodents too). Forget about living in Manhattan, if you wanna pay shoebox apartments for top dollar.

I know a lot of people who live in New Jersey and commute to NYC.

Answer 5

Queens with a view of Manhattan will be Astoria, and in the Bronx will be the south Bronx (not safe at all). I don't know how safe Astoria is. If you want safe in the Bronx, its the Throgs Neck area, but it has no view of the city and its near the Long Island Sound.

Answer 6

I stay in Brooklyn. that is all high priced, no rely the place you go in long island city. i don't be attentive to a lot approximately Staten Island yet i think of you'll be waiting to get greater advantageous deals there. not on the brink of the SI ferry, of direction. i might think of costs in that northern "George-some thing" portion of Staten Island gets as high priced as Astoria, Queens or Williamsburg, Brooklyn. possibly evaluate the Bronx? Or the suburbs and seem at traveling on the LIRR or Metro North.