Where are New Yorkers moving to, and why? WNYC finds out

By BrickUnderground | July 30, 2015 - 1:59PM

Summer is prime moving time, which explains why this is also the toughest rental season, since you're competing with everyone else looking for apartments. So where is everyone going? And why?

WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show — a must-listen in our books, by the way, so consider this a recommendation (and a perennial "test drive") — took calls from listeners last week, and found that New Yorkers were moving for reasons both unsurprising (the rent is too damn high!), upsetting (Lehrer himself revealed he once "ran out" of a Chelsea apartment after just seven months because the noise on Ninth Avenue was just "too assaultingly loud"), or practical (one guy is moving back to his old neighborhood, Kingsbridge in the Bronx, because he just got a job there). And one Manhattanite says he and his wife are finally moving into a condo in Naples, Florida permanently because the tight real estate market will make it financially advantageous for them to sell their Midtown East apartment (lucky!).

Give it a listen here.

How to avoid getting scammed during peak moving season

Brick Underground articles occasionally include the expertise of, or information about, advertising partners when relevant to the story. We will never promote an advertiser's product without making the relationship clear to our readers.