The 9 Most Affordable Neighborhoods in NYC -- Manhattan, Brooklyn & Queens

… 30 lower … Bushwick tends to conjure images of obscure artists throwing parties in graffitiladen industrial lofts …

By Leigh Kamping-Carder |February 11, 2014 - 8:59AM
80/20 apartment living: My life as a 20 percenter

… building in Battery Park City where the average monthly rent for an apartment like mine is upwards of $4000 theyre … Twelve years ago I found an advertisement for Equal Housing Opportunities in the newspaper and sent in an … because the average NY Times reader is not looking for affordable housing Or maybe their ads are more expensive I …

By Anonymous |October 2, 2012 - 9:51AM
11 years later, a TriBeCa native longs for a pre-9/11 Lower Manhattan

… would grow to the size it is today  On the morning of 911 I was in my apartment It was my day off so I planned on … greeted by a choking smoke smell ID checkpoints military personnel on every corner and a newsvan encampment on … or know anyone who did There werent notices of missing persons in my building and no one was hurt Things slowed …

By Julie Inzanti |September 11, 2012 - 8:58AM