I love asking this question because every neighborhood in New York has tradeoffs and it’s very fun to see how people weigh them. Me? I’m moving to the East Village.
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I actually would use my Powerball winnings to fix world hunger. But your thing is cool too (East Village no question; adjacent to one of the community gardens. Second place Greenpoint near the ferry)
aug 30, 2025, 9:34 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s funny, there was a time when the West Village was probably the most pleasant neighborhood in the city but boy is that not the case anymore
aug 30, 2025, 9:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Back in the ZIRP days I was able to expense weeklong AirBNBs once a month and I found one in the EV that I returned to every time. Guy had been there 30-40 years and had mastered vertical storage. Best place to walk around and be 27
aug 30, 2025, 9:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I want peace and quiet and floor to ceiling libraries and window seats and huge parks and ivy outside the window so that bit of Park Slope where you find all those things.
aug 29, 2025, 9:43 pm • 2 0 • view
east or west village probably, yeah
aug 29, 2025, 9:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I'd take a place high up in one of those hideous super tall skinny towers mid town because they're empty and nobody would complain about the loud music.
aug 29, 2025, 10:01 pm • 1 0 • view
I came here to say East Village.
aug 29, 2025, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I want of those brownstones overlooking the Brooklyn Heights promenade so badly.
aug 29, 2025, 9:12 pm • 5 0 • view
Oh, this is another good answer.
aug 29, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
The one where I live: Prospect Heights. Only complication is that I *love* the apartment I leased earlier this year. If I could find a comparable condo, I'd buy; otherwise, I'd stay where I am, buy a country place, and do a bunch of other interesting/fun stuff with the remainder.
aug 29, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
ex-new yorker curious if the east village is back. cool when I was there but upon visits back it seemed to be... well, not gentrified... but enrichified?
aug 30, 2025, 2:17 am • 0 0 • view
I’m more of a below 14th street kinda guy but just for the real estate it’s gotta be Central Park West or in one of the supertalls just south of the park
aug 29, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I'd maybe go south of Houston tho. Find a tasteful penthouse around Rivington as my NYC hang.
aug 29, 2025, 9:17 pm • 1 0 • view