Good areas to live in New York?

So I could think of it like Brooklyn=Shoreditchish and Soho/East Village=Soho?

I'd never live in Soho in London, it'd be nuts. I'd much prefer Shoreditch or Old St. (I'm in East Dulwich / Forest Hill now but thats too far out in my opinion). I'll be working in Manhattan so that'll give me my central NY fix, then I can chill out in Brooklyn. Its coming together!

This advice is brilliant, so thanks a lot everyone.

East Village = Camden Town

What do you do, if you don't mind me asking?

No problem. I'm a digital project manager for a big old school ad agency. I just make sure all the digital campaign work gets done, websites, banners, widgets, all that stuff. They have offices all over and I just put in for a transfer on the off chance and it came through. I'm a lucky boy.

East Village = Camden Town

Oh. Not so sure about Camden Town.

Oh. Not so sure about Camden Town.

The East Village used to be kind of down-market and full of artists, musicians, etc. Actually, it used to be considered part of the Lower East Side. Property developers started calling it the 'East Village' to make it seem more desirable. Anyway, it's now kind of become a bit like Camden Town. Used to be cool, now full of counter-culture 'tourists,' punks that can't seem to get over the fact that punk died a long time ago, people wearing Doc Martens, etc.

' punks that can't seem to get over the fact that punk died a long time ago

Sell out.

Yes I looked at the site but I need an invitation code thing to apply to become a member. Are you a member? Could you recommend me?

Yeah, I'm a member, but you just need to sign up and in a couple of days you should receive an email from the administrator. When it's done, just click the link and you're done! ;) Last thing: the mail might go straight to your bulk folder, so don't forget to check it.

stay out of Nassua county is my heartfelt advice.

NYC is full of muppets and neer do wells.

Yeah, they call this gentrification . NY was really NY... in the eighties ( though dangerous at times).

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Could you recommend me to get me? Buy you a beer when I'm there!

I'm gonna go another way with this. Bottom edge of spanish harlem. Massive, lovely apartments, for super cheap prices. Takes no time to get anywhere in Manhattan by bike anyway. I'd go 93th to around 100th.

I've stayed in Spanish Harlem before. What I saw of it was a nice area, a lot of nice housing to be had as well.

I've stayed in Spanish Harlem before. What I saw of it was a nice area, a lot of nice housing to be had as well.

And lots of hot latin women? Sorry.

Could you recommend me to get me? Buy you a beer when I'm there!

Done, just sent a request for invitation. Strange by the way, I just get mine without invitation code ... they might have changed the rules, don't know. Haha, thanks for the beer, but unfortunately I'm here in London and probably for a while ... Anyway, I'm more or less a regular traveler to NY ( 3 or 4 times a year and usually stay in Bed-Stuy or East NY ), so maybe I'll see you there one of those days ;)

How does someone wake up in NY and find they are a digital project manager, if you don't mind me prying even further?

No problem. I'm a digital project manager for a big old school ad agency. I just make sure all the digital campaign work gets done, websites, banners, widgets, all that stuff. They have offices all over and I just put in for a transfer on the off chance and it came through. I'm a lucky boy.

How does someone wake up in NY and find they are a digital project manager, if you don't mind me prying even further?

No problem. I've been a digital project manager in London for around 5 years. I'm just transferring internally, like for like position wise, for the same agency, but different city, different clients.

Alright I have lived in NYC for the last 18 years and I am telling you now, Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn! Manhattan is just done, it's a giant mall. There are some great things to see and do in Manhattan for sure, and any Brooklynite will readily admit that they go there daily for work and the occassional band or restaurant. So short story long, It's a nice place to visit but you wouldn't want to live there. Brooklyn has everything you could ever want music, art, food, parks, and something that Manhattan lost ages ago, Neighborhoods! Manhattan used to have it but sadly, neighborhoods where you recognize your neighbors and feel like you are part of a community that looks out for eachother is no longer there. In Brooklyn you still have this. Even in Hipster laden Williamsburg, It's still a small enough neighborhood that you know the shopkeepers at the corner store and they know you! Williamsburg is a bit of a hipster nightmare, but it does have amazing music, art and food within a 20 block radius so it's almost worth it. There are plenty of other awesome neighborhoods in Brooklyn to live in, Carroll Gardens, Greenpoint, Bushwick, Red Hook, Cobble Hill, Park Slope, even Bedstuy is a decent place to live nowadays. All of these places you can get to work in Manhattan on the subway within 35 min mostly. Brooklyn also has lots of trees and parks and incredible museums! You must remember that until 1899 Brooklyn was it's own city separate from Manhattan and If Brooklyn was still a separate entity it would be Americas third largest city! I am biased for sure but I would not steer you wrong, if you want to experience a real New York City, people and culture, live in Brooklyn. The other boroughs are all awesome in their own ways and by all means you should visit them all! But in my opinion Brooklyn is the place to be!

Isn't Greenwhich Village the place to be? It's where NYU is so lots of students etc?

It's the place to be if your living in 1955. Cool daddy-O Cool!

look, quit your company and stay in London.

NYC is full of muppets and neer do wells.

How dare you! I spent my entire child with Muppets sir! Some of my best friends are Muppets! I challenge you sir..........To a duel!

What's Bronx like these days?

bronx is really ok now ... even Hunts Point in my opinion ... though you should remain careful in some areas, projects especially.

brooklyn's where it's at... living in manhattan sucks. try williamsburg, though it's a bit like shoreditch sponsored by mtv. i lived in carroll gardens and really liked it. in manhattan, the lower east side is good fun, but it drove me craaaaaazy living there.

+Gazillions.

How dare you! I spent my entire child with Muppets sir! Some of my best friends are Muppets! I challenge you sir..........To a duel!

What, Pista's at dawn?

And that's madam, to you, vicious rogue!

"so coolish with a little bit of an edge"

so hipsters, traces of urban decay and a higher crime rate.

Isn't Greenwhich Village the place to be? It's where NYU is so lots of students etc?

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I live in the village where ever I go I walk to,
I keep my friends around me so I have someone to talk to,...

Alright I have lived in NYC for the last 18 years and I am telling you now, Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn! Manhattan is just done, it's a giant mall. Williamsburg is a bit of a hipster nightmare, but it does have amazing music, art and food within a 20 block radius so it's almost worth it. There are plenty of other awesome neighborhoods in Brooklyn to live in, Carroll Gardens, Greenpoint, Bushwick, Red Hook, Cobble Hill, Park Slope, even Bedstuy is a decent place to live nowadays. But in my opinion Brooklyn is the place to be!

Thanks a lot mate. It's looking more and more like Brooklyn the more people I talk to. Some guy said "you need to live in Manhattan for your first year - I do" and then said "But yeah, I'd move to Williamsburg in a heartbeat.". I'm 99% sure now. My new company has showers and a secure bike bay underground so I'll be riding in as much as possible.

Where's the cool but non-hipster area of Brooklyn then? Carroll Gardens? How much for a 1 bed? Is craigslist the best place to look?
Thanks again!

stick to the neighbourhoods close to manhattan, obviously. myself, i probably wouldn't go more than three or four subway stops into brooklyn. but then it gets cheaper the further out you go.

williamsburg is probably the most famous hipster neighbourhood in america. i think that statement alone lets you know what to expect from it. but it's still a great neighbourhood and alot of the hysteria around it has calmed down a bit.

carroll gardens, park slope and cobble hill are "nice" neighbourhoods; bit trendy, completely gentrified now (but still with really great old italian delis). i'd still live in either but if you're looking for a bit of edge, you might get annoyed by all the young professionals and prams.

red hook, gowanus and dumbo are former industrial neighbourhoods that are increasingly popular now. but gentrification happens really quickly; there's lots of cafes and cool bars and such now. if you want sex-in-the-city loft living with a bit of safe grit, this might be a good option. some friends live in an amazing loft in dumbo that i envy. they have to take the subway to get to a big grocery store though.

bushwick, greenpoint, fort green and bedford are a lot more, uhm, authentic. rents in new york push people around a lot so all of these neighbourhoods are full of hipsters and young professionals, but they're much less gentrified than the others. but then these neighbourhoods probably also have the biggest sense of a real community. a good friend of mine (a beautiful blonde girl) lived in fort green and never got hassled; another friend of mine (burly skater kid) got jacked in greenpoint. i like these neighbourhoods, but they wouldn't be the first on my list.