coffee1978 t1_iuj828b wrote
Lived in Long Island City (on the border with Astoria), then moved to JC/Newport.
LIC:
- Good - Much better transportation options - Queens Blvd, Queensboro Plaza, Court Square basically gave you every train that matters. Plus, a taxi/Uber home from Manhattan is not too ridiculously priced.
- Good - More easy access to much better food in Astoria and LIC. Quick train ride to Jackson Heights, Elmhurst or Manhattan gets you everything else.
- Good - Pedestrian bridge to Manhattan. (59th St bridge)
- Neutral - No need for a car.
- Neutral - easy access to two trash airports (JFK and LGA).
- Bad - high rent/cost of living.
- Bad - It's Queens.
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Jersey City:
- Good - Much improving food options, but no match for Queens.
- Good - More space for lower cost
- Good - Less tax - city taxes add up quick.
- Neutral/Good - You are forced to take the PATH, which saves you money. Lazy people like me will hop in a cab, and that adds up real quick. Uber one-way to JC is too expensive and makes you think twice and only do it when necessary.
- Neutral/Bad - PATH
- Neutral - you really need a car or you will spend all your time in Manhattan/etc.
- Bad - No pedestrian bridge (or tunnel!) to Manhattan.
- Bad - easy access to just one trash airport (EWR).
- Bad - It's New Joisey
JerseyCity_Nuyorican t1_iuk2mv2 wrote
You don't need a car.
coffee1978 t1_iuk34vd wrote
"or you will spend all your time in Manhattan/etc."........ Hoboken is nice but whatever. You get tired of it about as fast as your get tired of downtown or Newport. Light Rail/etc is nice but does not take you to the most happening places, and it's weekend schedule and maintenance delays suck almost as bad as PATH. My life in JC improved 10x once I got a car as NJ has so much to offer that is outside the range of mass transit.
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