I will be working in Manhattan for exactly one year - where to live?

you need a therapist before you make any life decisions

You have a rather odd reading comprehension deficit; you seemed to have missed that I'm neither *from*, nor *live in*, Boston, I just prefer it to Manhattan.

In person, the people of NYC seemed quite friendly (and even helpful to strangers), and this thread has had many like that; I'll trust that most are like those I met or the other poster answering my questions, and not like you.

Don't you get housing at Cornell? My friend and her husband did when she did her residency there.

Guaranteed housing at either end, yes, but that leaves a 45 minute commute to the other. (Also, I was under the impression you still pay; it's just guaranteed? That's what my wife told me.) And I can afford the UWS for a couple years.

(I'd also like to see my wife all year long, and would be using Van Cortlandt Park a lot; I don't think I'd enjoy the upper east side that much. If Washington heights is a nice place to live, that's also useful info to me; I was sort of under the impression it wasn't, but I'd love to be wrong.)

i know you have to pay I just figured you need not stress over finding a place. Nevertheless Manhattan is pretty much noisy no matter where you live except for maybe Battery Park City.

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Funny to see how many letsrunners live in the city. UWS is the only answer, unfortunately. Anyone who says other neighborhoods in nyc have "good" running either just visited or aren't training consistently. Not that you can't run high mileage in Williamsburg but the west side highway, central park, and prospect park are the only good running spots here.

Nah, Brooklyn's good....from Red Hook up through BB park, Dumbo/Vinegar Hill, Navy Yards, W'Burg, Greenpoint, to Queens -- LIC, Astoria, Ditmars is like 20 miles with little to no stopping. "Good" for training consistently. Laps in Prospect Park? No thanks.

Anyone denigrating Queens as a training ground either doesn't know what they're talking about or doesn't get out very much.

The borough is full of large, wooded parks that offer a variety of running surfaces, and if you follow the Urban Greenbelt Trail you can hopscotch from one forested park to another, with just a few street crossings in between. For example, you can go Flushing Meadow-Kissena Park-Cunningham Park-The Vanderbilt Greenbelt-Alley Pond Park, or some combination thereof.

Forest Park is 600 wooded acres, used to be Khalid Kannouchi's training grounds, and just outside the park you can add in hilly loops around the massive Cypress Hills Cemetery (On the Brooklyn/Queens border), or the Ridgewood Reservoir.

I lived in Woodside and worked in midtown post-college, was doing 100+ mile weeks with frequent doubles, and was never bored or short of new routes to come up with. Commuting was about 40 minutes each way. For variety on some Sundays I would even do runs through the deserted industrial areas

There's also no shortage of tracks for speedwork. (Astoria Park, Juniper Valley, Forest Park, etc.)

Yes, Queens is a cultural abyss, but you can get culture elsewhere in this city closer to your job.

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Finally bumping this thread with the update. Thanks to everyone who wrote, this thread is a great resource now.

I ended up finding a 1bed on the upper west side close to the 86th and Broadway subway stop. Too many nice features to pass up -- the 1 takes me to work, central park and riverside park are both 5 minutes running. With all utilities it will be right about 3000/month and avoided realtor fees.

If anyone wants to meet up to run, especially in the mornings, I'd love some company! Pretty flexible, usually go anything from 5-15 miles anywhere from 6-7:30 pace. Post or email me. Cheers.

I don't see how to get letsrun to link my email from my username like it used to, so for now email

uwsrunner2018 at protonmail.com

Enjoyed this post and glad it has worked out for you. I am hoping to move to NYC early next year from London and was wondering exactly where to try and aim for. Have visited a few times in the past couple of years but won't be able to visit again before we move so would be great to have an idea of where to focus our search before getting there (and limiting any time in hotels whilst flat hunting).

Hopes are for a 1 or 2 bed with enough space to keep (and train on) a bike indoors, as well as all of the wife's clothes and other stuff. Max budget probably $3k (but pref lower). Want to be close to a park large enough to run on, but add in to the mix it would be great to be somewhere that is close enough to a route out of the city for cycling, and came to the conclusion that UWS seems to fit most of the above. Will likely only be in NYC for 2 years max so want to make the most of actually being in the city (instead of far off in the suburbs) but not feeling like we're in the centre of tourist town.

How are you finding it so far?

So far so good here! I'd guess that if you go up to higher streets than me you can probably find what you're looking for. The two tricky parts will be getting more square footage, and the cheaper apartments like 2500-2600 tended to be walk-ups (which is fine) with huge broker's fees (not fine unless you're staying 5 years). Not sure about the cycling route but the Hudson river path must be a good start.