Moving to condo close to NYC ideas?

DonnaL
Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:18:08 +0000

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I completely agree. Unfortunately, I never lived anyplace in New Jersey that was convenient to a train station. Not that trains don’t have their own issues, just like buses (there are few things more annoying than just missing one and having to wait another hour for the next one), but at least traffic isn’t a problem. Usually.

When I was looking for a place to move to last year, the only towns in New Jersey I even considered were Jersey City and Hoboken, where I could have found a place within walking distance of the PATH train. (Which is more like a subway than a train.) But it wasn’t hard at all to decide on Manhattan. Even apart from the fact that everybody in the nice parts of Hoboken seems to be under 40, I had concerns about the crime rates in both towns, plus rents (I wasn’t buying) are considerably higher than I was willing to pay (especially if I wanted a view of the Hudson) and generally don’t even include heat, plus, from everything I’ve read, a lot of the so-called “luxury apartment buildings” in Hoboken and Jersey City were put up in about 15 minutes and are basically made out of cardboard (including a lot of the condominium developments, which are largely unsold, so that many of the apartments are rented out).

Give me a nice, solid, prewar, Art Deco building in Manhattan right on the Hudson, a five minute walk from the Cloisters, like the one I live in now, any time!