Suppose I wanted to live across the street from Yankee Stadium so I could walk to games. Any idea what that would go for? Or is it not a good idea?
Yankee Stadium is in the South Bronx. It’s not exactly Park Avenue.
A quick search on Zillow shows some 1BRs for rent around 162nd Street for around $1100-$1300.
It’s also near the Bronx County courthouses, so a weird area in general. However, when I had jury duty recently, I noticed there are some pockets of residential streets with amazing older single-family houses that obviously have great homeowners taking care of them. And then I had fantasies about buying one and restoring it. But the fact remains, the area is a little sketchy so no matter what you did to the house, you’d own a great house in a sketch neighborhoods.
Delphica, does your neighborhood have a name? We are getting sick of Forest Hills and its growing, totally unjustified, pretentiousness. I am intrigued.
Pelham Bay. Not to be confused with Pelham Bay Parkway, which is a different neighborhood.
This article is a little old, but still gives a good sense of it, although the Times has expanded the neighborhood a little bit. They reference a few streets and businesses that are a little bit beyond what most people around here would consider “the neighborhood.”
The biggest downside we have found is that it’s the 6 train or no train. Everywhere else we have lived, there was always some other train option, even if it meant walking a little farther to get to it. There is also an express bus that goes to midtown. If you have a car, Pelham Bay does NOT have alternate side of the street parking, which is nice and convenient.
What is the advantage to living in a building with a doorman? I assume that he does more than open doors.
One big one, for me, is that he will sign for FedEx and UPS deliveries. Getting stuff delivered can be a real pain in the neck if you don’t have a doorman.
This is **SO **very true.
I find this odd/interesting, as I have never lived in a doorman building, and never had any trouble receiving packages. 99% of the time they leave it at the door of the apartment; the other 1% the super signs for.
I think one of the biggest things is that with a 24 hour doorman, you’ll never walk into an empty lobby alone in the middle of the night.
Another is that there is a real live person there who can help you if you have a problem like locking yourself out of your apartment. They will also contact you when you have a visitor, so they are screening who goes in and out of the building.
Oh, and with deliveries, it’s not just mail and FedEx. The only time I lived in a doorman building, I was new to the workforce and didn’t have a lot of disposable income, but other tenants in my building frequently had dry cleaning, laundry, groceries, pharmacy, all sorts of things delivered and the doorman was there to accept the items.
Some deliverymen are unwilling to leave it at the door, which means you have to trek across town, during business hours to recover it at the warehouse. Or in some building packages get stolen. This explains #1 to some extent.
We’re in Astoria in an apartment that my Dearly Beloved has been in for 19 years. We just broke $ 1K a month.
We shoulda moved 3 years ago when a 2 bedroom here could be had for 1600- 1800. In the last year Astoria has exploded with more hipsters than I can shake a growler of Magic Hat at and rents are skyrocketing. Now a 2 bedroom can’t be had anywhere near the subway for less than 2K- 2500. 
Considering moving to Dutchess county but I lived in Orange County for 16 years and lawdy god that commute went from draining to utterly hellish by the time I left.
Maybe Topeka…
Then again, we’ve friends who are in West Harlem who love it. Perhaps 135th St is calling our name.
Where do you live ??!!
I miss Astoria. I lived there for years before the hipster influx, and I too had a two-bedroom apartment that went for around $1,100 a month by the time I moved out. It’s still one of my favorite neighborhoods in NYC, probably actually my favorite. And Queens is my favorite borough, if only because I grew up there and always feel at home there.
Battery Park Manhattan! And yes, a roommate was a must for me.
Oooh nice. The water…
Cartooniverse, I could go on about the water alone for paragraphs. I could go on and on about how much I love it here. But it will suffice to tell you that my roommate, while seeming to genuinely adore me, is the most batshit crazy person I have ever endured. And I STILL would rather be here than anywhere else, until I can afford my own apartment in a more realistic neighborhood.
You mean, not one created by the positive space created by the creation of the negative space created in the creation of the World Trade Centers which are now a memorial in negative space ?
You live in/ON the most surrealistic wedge of real estate in all of New York City, IMHO.
Totally. But I meant realistic FOR MY BUDGET. Once I am no longer with a roomie, I won’t be able to afford to live here. I will be living in Harlem, which I love, but I will miss this place a great deal.
I live in a co-op in Inwood, in northern Manhattan. I have a 2br, about 1100 square feet, in a prewar building with 68 units. I could sublet my place for about $2500 per month, no problem.