A friend of mine, originally from Buffalo, needed to find a new place to live. She's in NYC, works in publishing, isn't on much a year and had to find a flat she could share with a roommate for $1300/month.
Her options:
Red Hook, Brooklyn: The part near the entrance of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Red Hook is an emerging area but has no subway and, while much of the neighborhood is on the rise, the area my friend could afford is on the cusp of being on the cusp of gentrification.
Harlem: Not Harlem Deluxe near Columbia University and the 125th St. subway station--the Harlem within walking distance of Riverside Church, St. John The Divine Cathedral and Grant's Tomb. That Harlem has already gentrified. The Harlem my friend could swing is 20 long blocks deeper into Harlem than the Apollo Theater and over 100 blocks from where she works.
Which did she chose?
Neither. She's establishing contacts and will freelance from Buffalo. She moves back at the end of the summer.
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