It is anticipated that this program that our daughter is involved with that has her taking graduate courses while teaching will form the basis for area’s of law that she intends to be involved in. She will teach for a year or two and then wishes to go to Law School. That is the current plan.
I sincerely appreciate everyone’s input!
Then she needs to add accessibility to her graduate program to the mix when deciding where to live.
Rebeccar - my son is just finishing his second year teaching. I sent him an e-mail about the CLEP tests and found out that he knew nothing about the +30 option. Thanks for the info! I learn the best things on this forum. Hopefully he will look into this and get the tests done this summer after moving. He’s a super test taker and has his master’s so this is really a no-brainer for him. He could sorely use the extra money.
I had a friend who had a daughter who lived in Normandie Court for a few years, probably with roommates as when she graduated Brown,her first job was as a nursery school classroom assistant on the Upper West Side at Abraham Joshua Heschel school, easy bus ride cross town.
This is really offensive, and not true. I say that as a white woman who moved to Ciinton Hill in Brooklyn in 1989, at the time over 95 percent black, a lovely mostly working-class community, where I raised my Chinese daughter beginning in 1998 on the best family-friendly block ever.
My older son spent his first two post-college years working at a Columbia neuroscience research lab in Washington Heights (Columbia med school is located around east 168th st., in Washington Heights). It’s a nice neighborhood full of young college grads who are either working at the med school as researchers or are med students, and less expensive than the Upper West Side.
If your daughter is working on the west side of Harlem, it will be a really easy commute. If she’s working on the east side of Harlem, it’s still not bad. My son took the subway from 168th down to 125th and then either walked or took the bus east to the 125th st metro north station.
Other places to consider: to commute to the west side of Harlem…Riverdale. To commute to the east side of Harlem…in Westchester, there are apts in Pelham, New Rochelle, and Larchmont by the metro north stations.
Article in today’s NYTIMES Real Estate section about people relocating to NYC and the apartment search, not necessarily recent college grads although one was featured, a 23 year old with a sublet of a share in a 3 bedroom apartment in Williamsburg paying $1300 that he was able to find out about through Facebook group Gypsy Housing, originally started as a sublet source for people in theater going on out of town gigs, another woman, age 27 renting a room in a 3 bedroom apartment in Harlem paying $1075, cheap compared to the housing cost she was paying in SF.
Statistics: average price for a studio apartment in Manhattan is $2355 per month, Brooklyn $2320 with extensive details about what is needed to sign a lease, guarantors, broker’s fees, etc.
Or try the Arthur Avenue area in the Bronx. By Fordham University so lots of young folks and generally safe. Metro North goes from Fordham Station to 125th Street in 10 minutes. Just another option to explore.
So DS and family found a 1 bedroom in Inwood that’s the same price as their 1 bedroom in East Harlem, but twice the size. Building has an elevator also and green view with parks all around, so less of a concrete jungle. But it will almost double his commute. There are no perfect solutions in NYC, except maybe if you have gobs of money.
Yesterday I just happened to look at the NYC alumni club for my alma mater and clicked onto FB page to see what they did. There were a number of postings for people looking to fill a bedroom in their apartment. This was for UofSC but the school you or D graduated from might also have a similar FB page.