What is the best place to live if Im working in Manhattan?|141380

I_m trying to figure out what borough would be a good place to live. I_ll be working in downtown Manhattan, on the corner of Hudson and Houston streets. I_m trying to balance price with commute time. Manhattan is pretty expensive so I_d prefer to live somewhere else if I can find a good place.

Looking at Google Maps real quick, I notice that Hudson and Houston Streets is 1 block from the Houston St. 1 subway station, and about 5-10 blocks, depending on which direction you walk, from the Spring St. C/E subway station and the West 4th St. A/B/C/D/E/F/V station. So you could look for apartments that are convenient to any of those subway lines but I think for downtown, Brooklyn would be your best bet - the commute would be marginally shorter. Hudson and Houston is also about 5 blocks from the Christopher St. PATH station, so Hoboken or Jersey City, NJ are also possibilities since there is direct PATH service. You could go further out in search of cheaper housing, but then you_ll spend more time on the PATH or subway each morning.

Try Jersey City or Hoboken, easy commute on the PATH train.

Jersey City or Hoboken = closest
Brooklyn = close second...of course brooklyn is huge...but from the trendy yuppie areas (Park Slope, Fort Greene, Boerum Hill), etc. you would have a short commute.
Go to www.hopstop.com to calculate the length of any particular subway journey.
Good luck.

Don_t give up on lower Manhattan so quickly. There_s a lot to be said for saving the 1 hour commute each way _ the ability to stay out until 2:00 am without having to worry about how you_ll get home.

New Jersey would be your best value and as the others said, the path train makes it convenient to live in Hoboken and Jersey City, they_re very nice places. You_ll probably want to avoid Newark.

If you want to stay in New York, then Brooklyn would be your best bet. Queens is great, but if you_re working downtown, Brooklyn makes more sense.

As should be obvious, the farther away from Manhattan you get (and for any given city the farther away from public transportation you get) the cheaper the rent.

Good luck.

My friend that live in NYC has found some reasonable apartments in Queens, and it_s only like a 20 minute train ride to get where he needs to be, not exact on the location of his workplace but it_s a stones throw from Washington Park, close to NYU.

Long Island City in Queens

New Jersey.
Right by the river you_ll find nice houses with Manhatten view and the air is much fresher there. Think you can get to downtown Manhattan in 30 minutes or so, by boat or bus.