Terrible for running and not cheap but i would recommend living in West Village for the experience. Sort of a only in New York, it is pretty beautiful in the winter and the restaurants are awesome. Close to your office
Terrible for running and not cheap but i would recommend living in West Village for the experience. Sort of a only in New York, it is pretty beautiful in the winter and the restaurants are awesome. Close to your office
Who can afford to live in the West Village these days?
Hi,
You want to live near either Central Park or Prospect Park. I live near Prospect Park and worked for many years near central park - it's good to have options. You can run after work in CP or go home and run in PP. You might want to join a club or find a place to stash your gear. I used to go to the NYRR office - they let you leave your gear while you run the park loop.
People think that running in city is subpar, but honestly it is ideal. I have trained for many spring marathons while others have faltered in the dark and the snow. The parks are ALWAYS lit and ALWAYS well plowed. Where else in the country can you work full time and run safely after work in January?
The Central Park loop is six miles. The Prospect Park look is 3.35. I would suggest living near Prospect Park and running a couple of loops as your nightly run. I go to central park for long runs once I get up over 16 miles. You don't want to do a twenty miile run in Prospect Park because the mental toll of going around and around is unbearable.
Park Slope and Windsor Terrace are both fairly pricey. If you are looking for a deal and don't mind a neighborhood "in transition," check out Prospect Lefferts Gardens for much more affordable residencies neighboring the park.
If he could afford to live in Dumbo he could afford to live in West Village. Dumbo last year had the most expensive rental rates in NYC per street easy. He would get a nicer place in Dumbo but a lot of things would be more convenient in West Village.
Hoboken without question. More bars per square mile than any other city in the country. Lots of post collegiate tail. Quick subway ride to WTC. Cheaper than NYC. Good running options and since the construction of the weehawken track even better.
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You should really reconsider your assumption that Brooklyn/New Jersey will be more laid back than Manhattan, especially the Upper West Side. If you are on one of the cross streets on the west side beween 63rd and 120th, it will be just as quiet/laid back as it would be in Brooklyn. However, you'll have easy access to Central Park (6 miles of pavement running and an interior dirt path that you can easily do 4-5 miles on) and Riverside Park and the Hudson River path (~13 miles from the Battery to Fort Tryon). You've also got reasonably quick access to Van Cortlandt Park via the 1 train and the Riverside State Park track, also via the 1 train. If you have a car or a zipcar membership you can get to Rockefeller State Park in ~35 minutes, which is where a lot of the pros and college teams in the area train. In the winter you can purchase passes to work out at the Armory, which is accessible by several trains in about 20 minutes.
I live on 89th and West End and can confirm it's very residential, as family friendly as any suburb. The track at Harlem is a 20 minute jog away and it's an easy Subway ride to to The Armory or Van Cortlandt Park.
However, for a single guy I'd recommend a small apartment between Columbus and Central Park West. Those blocks are full of hot, young professional women.
Alternatively, the Lower East Side has easy access to the track at E6th Street and the East River Greenaway and is a Stone's throw from the Financial District.
Lastly the Financial district itself is largely residential these days and you have an 15 mile, virtually traffic free route from Battery Park to Columbia University Athletics complex and your in easy reach of several parks.
Prospect Park Runner wrote:
Hi,
You want to live near either Central Park or Prospect Park. I live near Prospect Park and worked for many years near central park - it's good to have options. You can run after work in CP or go home and run in PP. You might want to join a club or find a place to stash your gear. I used to go to the NYRR office - they let you leave your gear while you run the park loop.
People think that running in city is subpar, but honestly it is ideal. I have trained for many spring marathons while others have faltered in the dark and the snow. The parks are ALWAYS lit and ALWAYS well plowed. Where else in the country can you work full time and run safely after work in January?
The Central Park loop is six miles. The Prospect Park look is 3.35. I would suggest living near Prospect Park and running a couple of loops as your nightly run. I go to central park for long runs once I get up over 16 miles. You don't want to do a twenty miile run in Prospect Park because the mental toll of going around and around is unbearable.
Park Slope and Windsor Terrace are both fairly pricey. If you are looking for a deal and don't mind a neighborhood "in transition," check out Prospect Lefferts Gardens for much more affordable residencies neighboring the park.
this is on point. i prefer central park over prospect because of the size and variety of routes you can create. for more trails- westchester (near tarrytown/sleepy hollow) has really great running, also maybe check out montclair, nj and maplewood/south orange, nj. commute to downtown would probably be almost an hour though (njtransit to hoboken and connect to path) and a car might be part of the equation for day to day stuff. jersey city/hoboken would not get my vote
baahstun wrote:
Is northern NJ basically a soul-less commuter town with little to do?
in general yes, but montclair is very cool
I live in the financial district. I don't run much, but when I do it's not that bad. Running along the river is quite nice. You never have to wait for cars or anything. And everywhere is close to the river down here. It's super crowded during the workweek, but once everyone goes home at night and during the weekend, running through the streets is quite easy and there's a lot to look at. My brother used to work down here and live in Brooklyn and he would run to and from work across the Brooklyn bridge some days.
And the neighborhood itself is quite up-and-coming. It's becoming much more residential, and it's about to have a retail and dining explosion with the WTC, Brookfield Place, Fulton Center, and the Sea Port all having major redevelopments.
So I really think you should at least consider living down here. You would have a 5 minute walking commute.
I would go either west side of manhattan by central park or west side of bronx by van cortlandt park.