Why is it advised not to live in midtown?

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Not as many restaurants/bars.

I ignored it and lived in Midtown West/Central Park West pre-pandemic just fine. Though I moved recently due to the growing # of homeless shelters on 9th Ave, time square and penn station, and I was feeling increasingly unsafe as petite Asian F

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A1 - I used to live there lol in 505w37. Are there lots of homeless that far west ?

I have lived in midtown east for 11 years. It’s a very quiet (aside from weekday morning rush hour), calm neighborhood with a lot of lifelong residents. I can’t speak to all of the buildings but mine has been rodent- and pest-free all 11 years. It’s easy to get to/from most other neighborhoods in the city. Highly recommend.

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Too many tourists

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It’s mostly a stigma related to the Times Square, Port Authority, and Penn Station areas, which is 100% justified. They attract the worst people in the city (trashy tourists and day trippers from out of town and a high concentration of homeless people). If you give yourself a small buffer from those areas specifically, there’s no problems you wouldn’t find in the rest of the city.

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I live on 38th so I get the best of Hudson Yards and Hells Kitchen. Honestly I love it. You just need to avoid 7th/8th ave and Times Square.

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43 and 8, and I thought it was fine

Define midtown? What are boundaries

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Midtown is between 14th and CP

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Noise, crime & expensive rent, if you can tolerate all 3 of those then sure

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Midtown is fine, just stay away from Times Square area

I see, I guess it's the tourist thing that's the real factor for people
Was wondering if there was just something particularly wrong with most of the buildings or anything like that

Tourists > homeless > drugs

Times Square area is overwhelming loud and obnoxious. Don’t go there. Rest is depending on you. I live in midtown east which I have a love hate relationship with. On one hand it’s convenient and apartments are nice.

On the other hand full of mid 20s to early 30s who are still in the “college frat” mode and loud and obnoxious. (I am older now but said the same thing when I was 27-29 living here)

Rent is not as expensive as say east village. Brand name Food is much more expensive than anywhere. Graham crackers are 6.99-7.99. Probably 2-3$ more than downtown and 3-4$ more than non Manhattan boroughs. 6 lemons can be $10 if you are lazy and walk to the dagostino across your street.

Walk the extra 5 blocks to Trader Joe’s and then everything is reasonable again!

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