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South Harlem to Midtown East: Moving for a great elementary school

by Jessica as told to Marjorie Cohen | 5/17/13 - 10:58 AM

Why would I want to move from a reasonably priced two-bedroom apartment in South Harlem, upstairs from my best friend and her family, overlooking Morningside Park and across the street from a recently built playground?
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Lower East Side to Williamsburg: Add the (soon-to-open) Whole Foods, and this neighborhood will be perfection

by Quinn Asteak as told to Mayra David | 5/10/13 - 11:24 AM

After three years living on the Lower East Side with a roommate, I needed my own space. It was just time to move on to bigger and better things. Specifically, a bigger and better kitchen. I’m a personal chef, so a nice,...
Kips Bay to Bushwick: A neighborhood with (relative) steals for rentals

by Brian as told to Roland Li | 5/03/13 - 10:29 AM

I'm originally from Westchester and spent about a year living in Colorado. When I came back to New York, I moved back in with my parents in Kips Bay.
That neighborhood is all right. It has good restaurants (I especially...
Harlem to FiDi: I feel safer, things are more convenient, but I miss greenery (and families)

by Loren as told to Julie Inzanti | 4/26/13 - 1:20 PM

I am a born-and-bred New Yorker who grew up on the Upper West Side on West 87th and Broadway. I later moved to 112th and Fredrick Douglass Boulevard and then 110th Street and Lenox before moving to my current place in the...
Astoria to Harlem: A neighborhood that feels like the UWS (circa-1985)

by Ben as told to Marjorie Cohen | 4/19/13 - 10:46 AM

I knew that there would be a lot I would miss when I left Astoria, Queens, but after six years, it was time for a change. And, since I was making the change in order to move in with my girlfriend and start our life together, I...
Williamsburg to Fort Greene: From party central to a place worth staying in

by Hirondelle Chatelard as told to Mayra David | 4/12/13 - 10:59 AM

There was an accumulation of things that pushed us out of Williamsburg. Not to sound like a hipster pretending to be a wizened Brooklynite a la “I remember back in the day…” but the street we lived on--Berry Street--did go...
Prospect Heights to Cobble Hill: Brownstone Brooklyn personified-- (and an "inhumane" F-train)

by Rolando Pujol as told to Lucy Cohen Blatter | 4/05/13 - 11:43 AM

I lived in Prospect Heights for two years before moving a few miles away,...
East Village to Carnegie Hill: Our friends call us old, but it feels more like home

by Lindsay as told to Lucy Cohen Blatter | 3/29/13 - 10:51 AM

I lived in the East Village on East Fifth Street and Second Avenue until a month ago when I moved to Carnegie Hill.
My old building was a sixth-floor walk-up, but luckily I was on the second floor. The total rent was $2,...
Bushwick to Long Island City: A great (and close) alternative to living in Manhattan

by Peter Macari as told to Mayra David | 3/22/13 - 10:57 AM

When I first moved to the city I was living in a very trendy (i.e. expensive) neighborhood known as the Lower East Side, in a small (i.e. miniscule) room in a crappy apartment with four other people (i.e. 3 too many). By...
Chelsea to Williamsburg: Leaving the drugged-out, drunken element to get closer to friends

by Mike Mahon as told to Kim Gorode | 3/15/13 - 11:16 AM

I’d been living in the Chelsea/Hells Kitchen area (West 30th Street and 9th Avenue) for two years when I decided I wanted to join my growing group of friends who were living in or moving to Williamsburg.
In Chelsea...
From Astoria to Prospect Heights: More happenin', more neighborly, more convenient

by Cherie Chalouhi as told to Julie Inzanti | 3/08/13 - 11:10 AM

I grew up in Doha, Qatar. I was born and raised there as an expat and moved to the States after high school. I went to the University of Florida, and then moved to Korea. After Korea I traveled for a year and then found my way...
Hell's Kitchen to Crown Heights: Leaving the convenience of Midtown for the next (more beautiful) Williamsburg

by Sara B. as told to Lucy Cohen Blatter | 3/01/13 - 10:15 AM

I recently moved from Hell's Kitchen back to Crown Heights, where I lived from 2008 to 2010.
I liked Hell's Kitchen--especially the fact that it has lots of great restaurants. You could eat food of a different...
South Slope to TriBeCa: Fresher air and a grudging affinity for Whole Foods

by Frederick and Rebecca as told to Julie Inzanti | 2/22/13 - 10:29 AM

Transitions columns often chronicle New Yorkers' migration from Manhattan to the (somewhat) more affordable and family friendly outerboroughs, but this week's subjects --Rebecca and Frederick -- have done the reverse-move...
From the UWS to Riverdale: Lots of space and little to do while "holding onto the city for dear life"

by Darren C. as told to Lucy Cohen Blatter | 2/15/13 - 11:04 AM

I'd lived on the Upper West Side since moving to New York in 1999, most recently renting a third-floor walk-up on West 83rd Street between Columbus and Central Park West.
After my wife and I had...
Park Slope to Fort Greene: A better commute--and cheaper, roomier apartments

by Liz Kiernan as told to Kim Gorode | 2/08/13 - 1:52 PM

Before my boyfriend and I decided to move in together five months ago, I lived in a three-bedroom, one-tiny-bathroom apartment on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. I was living with two roommates--one friend and one we met through...
Bushwick to Kips Bay: Leaving my college-style life behind

by Brian G. Murphy as told to Mayra David | 2/01/13 - 10:24 AM

In a rare moment of life-synchronicity, I was being made to leave my apartment in Bushwick just as I was thinking about how I could leave it. I wasn't being forced out or anything, but my roommate and his girlfriend had gotten...
Upper West Side to Gramercy East: It hurts to lose Central Park, but my social life is downtown

by Claire as told to Sarah Karron | 1/25/13 - 8:58 AM

I grew up on the Upper West Side, on 90th and Central Park West, and lived in an Upper West Side bubble. With my school only two blocks away, and my friends always coming to my house growing up, there was no reason to...
Alphabet City to Williamsburg: An almost-substitute for the East Village, circa 2006

by Adam James as told to Kim Gorode | 1/18/13 - 10:28 AM

I moved to the East Village after my senior year of college about six years ago. I chose the East Village because it was a hub for music, media and culture. I was working in the music industry at the time and I fit in well...
Yorkville to Ridgewood: Some conveniences are gone, but mom-and-pops (and space!) make up for it

by Stephanie L. Davis | 1/11/13 - 11:21 AM

It was time for me to get out of Manhattan -- out of Yorkville, to be more precise.
Among the contributing factors: The cost of living kept growing (although wages/economy are stagnant), there was a lack of cultural...
Alphabet City to Park Slope: A happier living situation--and a happier neighborhood

by Erika Hackmann as told to Kim Gorode | 1/04/13 - 11:01 AM

Most people might think that living in a $500-per-month apartment downtown without roommates is an ideal living situation. It’s not when you're in an approximately 300-square-feet Alphabet City studio on the fourth floor of a...

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