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doctor_van_n0strand t1_itwi69z wrote

>1 .Long Island City
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>2. Astoria
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>3. Sunnyside
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>4. Forest Hills
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>5. Ridgewood
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>The most searched neighborhoods in Queens are some of the most affordable.
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>Besides Long Island City, the other neighborhood on StreetEasy’s most-searched list for the last five years is Astoria. The median asking rent was $2,650, and the median asking price was $798,913.

I knew it. It's over for Astoria. Get ready for New Park Slope.

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Ice_Business t1_itxm8mc wrote

I feel like people have been saying the same thing about Astoria for the last 10 years. It's still not the the new Park Slope.

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PostPostMinimalist t1_itxigzm wrote

It'll probably get more expensive but I don't think it'll ever be "new Park Slope". I mean, the architecture is so different, it'll always have one subway line, and it won't have the huge park next to it. It has pluses, just different.

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PoopEmoji8618 t1_itzti35 wrote

Is this referring to LIC? Because that’s very wrong if it is. 7/E/G/M are within 10 mins. Huge park is gantry. Is it the size of prospect? No, but you’re also comparing two different things - inland park and waterfront park. Both of which have their pros and cons

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PostPostMinimalist t1_itzukv2 wrote

They said “It’s over for Astoria. Get ready for New Park Slope”. So yeah, I was talking about Astoria. LIC sure won’t ever be like Park Slope. High “luxury” towers as far as the eye can see.

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myassholealt t1_itxj4ye wrote

>The most searched neighborhoods in Queens are some of the most affordable.

Id like to know what the writer's bar for affordable crossing over into unaffordable is. Cause numbers 1, 2 and 4 are not affordable for a solo person looking for a 1B who doesn't make six figures or more.

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09-24-11 t1_iu52c90 wrote

Average Astoria rent reportedly 2600. 100k wouldn’t pass the 40x rule for one person.

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kolt54321 t1_itwy78u wrote

Much of Forest Hills doesn't even have train access if I remember correctly. It's a bus to the train, and a bad one at that.

Edit: I was thinking of Kew Garden Hills one neighborhood over, my mistake.

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doctor_van_n0strand t1_itx0egn wrote

Forest Hills is awesome, and super close to the city via express. I can 100% why people would want to settle down there.

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kolt54321 t1_itx30a7 wrote

E train, right?

Unfortunately the train basically stops after Forest Hills. I remember commuting from KGH and it was a 1hr+ nightmare every time.

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Queenv918 t1_itx8zhi wrote

E & F trains both run express from Lexington Ave to 71st-Continental in Forest Hills, then continue all the way to Jamaica. The M & R local trains are the ones that dont go beyond Forest Hills

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kolt54321 t1_itx9el8 wrote

Yep, but they continue downwards - not east.

This is how KGH has no train access.

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valoremz t1_itz8u3i wrote

How has Forest Hills changed over the past 10-20 years? When I lived in Queens, Forest Hills was a predominantly middle class, upper middle class, and even wealthy (Forest Hills Gardens). A lot of blue collar jobs and also working class families and also Western European families. Has it changed at all? Do wealth folks who want to stay in NYC still live in the Gardens?

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guccigenshin t1_iu5l48n wrote

I feel like it's more or less the same, but probably leaning wealthier simply bc more people know about it now, especially ever since the opening of the stadium has gotten out-of-towners to visit regularly. I remember walking on austin st on a concert night and overhearing a bunch of rando's saying things like, "wow this place is so cute should i move here??"

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