Portholes & snack areas lol. Sad but true. & you're walking up not just several flights of stairs but SEVEN. Omg could you imagine the surcharge movers get for that? Neighborhood yes, apartments no.

I think, what a lot of people forget, is that wage/salary often increases with cost of living... Not always, and that's criminal af. But often. I have worked remotely for companies that calculated employee salaries based on where they lived. Their offers were still very competitive, but someone living in NYC, San Francisco, or Boulder could expect to make more than someone living in, say, Dayton, Ohio. Edit: But I completely agree with you with respect to the lack of egress in the bedrooms. That SHOULD be illegal. Everywhere. It's not, but it should be. In 2015, I lived in this massive 2 bed loft. And while the main area of the place was incredible (windows lining the entire space, from one end of the kitchen to the other end of the dining room, and exposed brick, high ceilings, space almost too huge to fill adequately, the whole package, THE BEDROOMS HAD NO WINDOWS (no egress windows. There WERE upper windows below the ceiling that lead to the hallway of the apartment, but come on... that's not a safety feature at all). Which didn't bother me until I got pregnant. And I knew it was time to move. Children need bedroom windows for SO many reasons. And I slowly began to realize, holy shit, we all do. When I was a kid, my parents used to put these stickers on our windows in our old farmhouse. They were reflective and said, in giant letters "TOP PRIORITY", meaning, if there were ever a fire or any other need for emergency services to rescue us from the house, first responders would see these giant stickers and know "Right, these are the first rooms we deal with because there are children inside." A windowless room can become a tomb. Particularly in these old buildings that have had their electric jerry-rigged for decades, sometimes almost a century. Second Edit: Who can't fit through the first place's downstairs bathroom window though? I could sluice right through that. I mean, I'm small, but.. so were a lot of people when these places were built. I could fit through the bottom floors in the second flat too, but I recognize that I'm also shaped like a snake, and that most adults could slither through those.

7 floors and no elevator for that price no way!!

Those prices ARE ridiculous!🫤

Ikr?

I wonder if it is, in fact, legal?

New York, baby!

It's not legal & the landlord hasn't registered it as a 2 bedroom. The lease won't show it as a 2 bedroom if the landlord is smart

It's not.

Flooding

And spiders can hide really well the brick ..

​@@BrooklynAlienWas going to say the same a few ppl lost their lives due to storms & flooding

​@@1927suI have arachnophobia I'd literally die😮

You're forgetting: instant depression

Sink sprayers. Shrines for your God. 😂

And slamming them shut hard!

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Atta girl! I basically posted the same exact sentiments as yours without reading any of the commentaries.

@@sinash do you remember (fairly recently) Cash had shown us another place with the same trap door roof deck? I think it was another Alex listing. If I thought spiral staircases were bad this ladder to the roof is 1000 times worse!

It definitely used to be a great neighborhood. But it went donwhill last few years. Maybe on right where the apartment is, it's fine. But walk a few blocks over to Chrystie, the homeless/junkie to regular person ratio goes up the closer you get to the park on Chrystie. Especially on Delancey. There's a person on almost every corner asking people for $. And i know It was always a thing. But during lockdowns it went out of hand because cops were told to leave them alone, but seemingly forgot to tell them when it was over so the amount of homeless/junkies went up and never went back down

Wow, that’s profound! Did you learn that @ Harvard???

SIGH

WHERE ARE YOU NOW ?

@alex murphy Pardon me but what county are you talking about?

@@koekiemonster450 I'm in the free state of Florida but glad I left the big 🍎 before it went crazy!

@alex murphy Well, Alex, it didn't happen overnight, it took lots of hard work, learning in the school of hard knocks, sound investments, saving money rather than spending it foolishly, real estate, buying low, selling high, the usual strategies plus a lot of luck and faith in God and myself and trusting the process, not to mention knowing the right people etc etc. America is the best place to make it. Anyone born here is in the top 1% when compared to the other 7 billion on the Earth. But America is in for some real hard times if we don't get back on track and soon. You know what I'm talking about, I'm sure!!

@alex murphy With all due respect, I don't know what country you live in or where you're getting your information but it's way off. Apparently you are misinformed! Based on who consumes the most goods, the poorest Americans consume by far the most. If they were a country they would be one of the richest countries in the world. You can look it up. Yes due to the world wide web, you can start a business anywhere. But the proof is in the eating. Watch Shark Tank. America is still the land of opportunity. Our southern border is wide open thanks to Pres. Biden so why is there a never ending stream of people coming into the US if it's as poor as you say? I don't see a lot of folks leaving the US. But they are leaving NYC and LA and other democrat -run cities and moving to Republican -run states and cities. Crime is just one of many reasons!

No. New York is one of very few walk able communities in the entire nation that isn't some bedroom community where people only live in the town to live in in order to commute to a halfway decent job market 1hr away. Too many people live in population centers where kids won't have mobility independence until they're 3 years away from being legally able to be emancipated & thrown onto the streets when cars are expensive to purchase,own, and operate. A lot of parents are terrible so they throw their kids onto the streets when they're a year away from graduating & don't own a car. In most of America you need to work to afford gas to be able work to pay for rent & food. NYC is going to outlast Texas as a desirable place to live in since Texas is not that far off from running out of water.