# new york/new jersey apt suggestions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-new-jersey-apt-suggestions/391522>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 9, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-new-jersey-apt-suggestions/391522 "2007-02-09T17:42:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-new-jersey-apt-suggestions/391522/41 "2007-02-26T15:50:14Z")

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[QUOTE=towaga84]  
Thank you for the advice guys. My cousin lives in Queens and she is going to have me stay with her until we find a place. She knows Manhattan really well, in terms of neighborhoods, so it should be easier.  
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Cool, that is the best method.

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**Author:** ![sugar\_and\_spice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@sugar\_and\_spice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugar_and_spice)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-new-jersey-apt-suggestions/391522/42 "2007-02-26T16:26:16Z")

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[QUOTE=Fiveyearlurker]  
By subway though, since there is the express train stop at 168th, it’s less than 15 minutes to 42nd Street. Much faster than Brooklyn, and infinitely faster than Queens.  
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It depends on where in the boros you are talking about, and where in Manhattan you are going. When I lived in Astoria my ride to lex was 10-15 minutes, and that was from every stop. In Woodside, the express train at 61st street can get you to Times Square in under 20 minutes.

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**Author:** ![towaga84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@towaga84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/towaga84)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-york-new-jersey-apt-suggestions/391522/43 "2007-03-08T03:29:14Z")

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Just an update guys:

So the salary is around 54k (42k annual+12k quarterly bonus).

My boss is saying he raised my base so I could apparently live in Manhattan (hmm…lol).

Any ideas on if a one bedroom in any part of manhattan that is relatively “safe” is going to happen?

If not how would you confront your new boss who is certainly evaluating you? I might have to beg to live in queens or something heh.

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