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Upper east side if you want to be in Manhattan - brownstone bk - cobble hill / Carroll gardens / park slope / fort Greene if you can afford it. Clinton Hill / Bedstuy / Crown Heights & Prospect Heights / Prospect Leffers for slightly more affordable. Greenpoint if you’re a cool parent that doesn’t care as much about general greenery. But the Prospect Park farmer’s market on Saturdays is chef’s kiss. And you can join Park Slope Parents to find community.
It also really depends on what your budget is and what you value. Like do you value diversity, an easy commute, affordability?
Murray hill. We moved last year with a 5 month old and found this area to be great for families. Has good daycare options as well.
Really? It’s known to be college town central
shocked by these answers- in the city, upper west side! central park and riverside park are wonderful for kids- so many great playgrounds. Lots of daycare options and the schools are also supposed to be wonderful. I say this because we left for westchester- we’re ready for a house, and love the more outdoor lifestyle, backyard, access to activities and pool.
Associate, yes District 2 is best for schools: it's majority downtown, including extending up to UES.
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Battery Park City if you want to be in Manhattan and downtown. Wonderful qccess to parks, the river, great family facilities, excellent (elementary) schools, lots of families. Can be $$$.
I’ve lived in lots of Manhattan/Bklyn & Queens neighborhoods and really like the far upper East (Yorkville) and far upper west (Riverside) neighborhoods for families. Yorkville is more affordable, but Charles Schurz park isn’t as nice as Riverside park. Murray Hill feels like a featureless post-college blob to me, and more central UES is pretty but not as livable (grocery stores, drug stores, etc. not as easy to come by). Same with Manhattan south of 14th - pretty and fun as a 20-something or without kids but tougher to find a good mix of affordable, green & convenient when kids come into the picture. Inwood has some nice areas and the green space of the Cloisters is fabulous but the apartments tend to be older and less well-maintained.
I don’t like Brooklyn, but that’s just because I find Brooklyn family culture a tad insufferable and not my speed. Others love it, though, and I have lots of friends in the Cobble Hill/Brooklyn Heights area. Queens doesn’t have great access to green spaces unless you’re pretty far out, and then the commute sucks. No experience with the Bronx, but looked at some places there once - while it has some pretty neighborhoods, the commute is crap so never tried it.
Agree that Forest Hills is super cute and Forest Hills Park is great, but it’s a long commute. As with everything, somewhere you end up giving a little and maybe a longer commute is worth it for the more suburban feel of Forest Hills.
Schools are also a major factor, as many of the places that are more affordable have public schools that aren’t as good, so you end up paying either way - just depends on whether you want to pay for school or pay for your apartment. For us, with multiple kids the cost of private school (not to mention NYC private school culture, which is just not my jam) was just a no-go, so that was a limiting factor, though different families will shake out those numbers differently.
If I were OP, I’d find a broker, take a long weekend to come to NYC and try to see a couple of places in a number of different neighborhoods just to feel it out. Depending on where you’re coming from, NYC housing can be a bit of a shock, so get a good overview before narrowing it down to a few neighborhoods for your targeted search. And I’d also strongly recommend renting for a bit before buying. I know some people who bought when first moving to the city, and few ended up staying longterm in that first apartment (or even neighborhood), which isn’t usually cost-effective in the long run.