Comments by "Joe R M" (@joermnyc) on "Cash Jordan" channel.

  1. For that much I was expecting a kitchen that wasn’t just one wall, something with an island or peninsula with a breakfast bar.
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  2. Windowless basement rooms are not legal bedrooms. It’s a two bedroom with bonus rooms.
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  3. That’s more a ladder than a staircase, less you’ve been in the Navy then you’re used to stairs that steep.
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  4. The vent for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel all the way downtown was used for the Men in Black HQ entrance. Roosevelt Island used to be called Blackwells island, and housed a hospital for patients needing to be quarantined, a prison and an asylum. The journalist Nellie Bly faked being insane to get checked into the asylum and exposed horrific treatment and conditions, which got the place shut down (it was akin to what Geraldo Rivera found at Willowbrook in Staten Island.)
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  5. Been here since 1980 (didn’t exist before that), the city has been worse (look at old news reports from the late 1970s, aka the “Ford to City: Drop Dead” era… we’ve been getting better, but the pandemic has been hitting everyone hard since it’s unprecedented unless you are really old enough to remember 1918. I do think the bail reform needs to be amended to give Judges discretion though… if you see someone has been arrested a bunch of times over a few weeks or months, maybe don’t just keep sending them back out to terrorize the town?
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  6. No closets in the first three bedrooms, that means you’ll need wardrobes, which takes up space.
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  7. Yep, and asking for a living wage is “communist” in certain political circles.
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  8. You’re right, I can’t believe something this amazing this isn’t $20 million or more!
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  9. My Uncle lives near here… but that highway (BQE) view pretty much means those windows are staying closed 24/7.
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  10. What’s crazier, $10k/mo rent, or the fact that someone (or two people) can actually afford it!
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  11. That’s a crazy price for a studio in Bushwick (?), we pay less than that for 2-bedrooms in Forest hills, though our building has zero amenities (honestly, how often will you use all that stuff if you’re working full time) and the laundry is in the basement.
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  12. A little balcony like that is a “Juliet balcony” (as in Romeo and Juliet), it’s really more decorative than practical.
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  13. That weird space in the half bath would have been perfect for a laundry stack.
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  14. The room with the double doors is lacking a closet, so that’s the living room.
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  15. The cops do their best to crack down on those people reselling stolen goods, but there’s a bunch of them. It’s the prosecutors that keep doing catch and release that’s the problem, but that’s because they are beholden to what Albany dictates. Apparently the politicians up there don’t live where everyone else does, so they don’t see the problems their bail reform law has caused!
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  16.  @taylorlibby7642  rent is supposed to be 30% of your income. It almost never is.
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  17. A building like this standing alone gives me “Batteries Not Included” vibes. (Loved that movie when I was a kid).
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  18. My old neighborhood! (My parents still live there, but on the other side of the train). Those were fold away stairs, not ladders (makes laundry a little easier.)
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  19. Many offices are worried if they tell their workers to come back the workers will just quit. Bryant Park is being fixed from having the Winter ice rink there, which kills the lawn every year.
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  20. Wait, is that an entrance, or a tiny patio… is that a gate, or just a fence?
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  21. That overhead storage with the ladder… I’m guessing it’s open to the bedroom so it has some light coming into it… but it kind of makes for a privacy issue since even with the door closed, your roommate would probably hear you if they were in the kitchen.
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  22. The glass shower door hitting the toilet is an accident waiting to happen. The Harry Potter closet is just inexcusable for the price of that place.
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  23. Not fun to come back to from a break. My office had the reverse, the day before I took time off to get married, huge flood from a water tank used for the ventilation system just hit my desk and the desk next to mine. We had carpet instead of wooden floors, but that adds a mold risk. (We renovated and put in vinyl tiles everywhere just in case it happened again, but I moved my desk away from that spot.)
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  24. You could put stuff up on the roof, you’d just have to tie ropes to it to pull it up to the top of the stairs… or get something that comes in pieces and build it on the roof.
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  25. That front hatch is likely locked from the inside so random people don’t sneak into your basement.
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  26. One issue, the air conditioner looked like it was in the window for the fire escape, that’s actually illegal (unless there’s a second window next to it. Also it can’t be too big or it could block people upstairs from getting by. I know because I had to figure out if we could put one in our daughter’s room or not, thankfully we could because there’s two windows and we’re the top floor with no roof access.)
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  27. Ok, the frosted glass to hide the toilet was hilarious!😂
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  28. Dude, if I had $7 million, I’d be looking to buy a couple of houses, maybe all next to each other, make myself a little private compound!😂
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  29. Most people don’t realize how big of a drop it really is.
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  30. If you want something similar with a hotel instead of a mall, those Great Wolf Lodge places are a good thing to check out.
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  31. Really awesome idea, but, that’s a public transit dead zone (it’s a long hike to the 7 train past the entrance to the midtown tunnel, and there’s no bus service down there yet.)
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  32. So far most places with roof decks seem to have stairs that make it almost impossible to carry anything up, like a chair, or a grill.
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  33. Welcome back to NYC. Yes, the flight coming back from Australia the sun set, rose, set again, and then rose before we got to LAX in the morning, then our afternoon flight to JFK it set one more time. It’s like weird slow time travel and I went to bed feeling like the plane ran me over.
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  34. No closets at all is really weird, sure it maximizes the space, but then you need to take up space with standing wardrobes and other storage furniture.
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  35. Probably Central Park West or 5th Avenue along the east side of the park, if you were only sticking to Manhattan.
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  36. Never saw a bedroom with a bath, walk in closet AND a laundry room!
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  37.  @BlueGoat682  it reminded me of my wife’s old laundry room… so many machines… our current building has 4 little washers, 1 big washer and only 3 dryers… for like 50 apartments! Bought one of those racks to dry things… it paid for itself not having to pay 30 cents for only 6 minutes of weak dryer time.
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  38. If you work in midtown on the east side, there’s an east river ferry terminal nearby so you can use that instead of the subway.
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  39. Believe it or not, Mormons founded Las Vegas (it had a water source for the trail between Utah and Los Angeles).
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  40.  @bryceharper446  that red pipe going up through his office is a main for the sprinkler system so there is water in the building.
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  41. Took me a while to realize, this is an old school townhouse where the kitchen is in the basement and the rest of the unit is upstairs. The layout is a bit odd where most of the unit is not above the kitchen or your patio area. (Pause at 4:33, can’t figure out the laundry on the top floor has a door to outside the apartment…? Actually so does the living room.)
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  42. Have you ever forgotten something in a place you looked at, like your drink in the fridge?
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  43. It’s the Ross from Friends “PIVOT!” Staircase.
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  44. The boxes in the closet with the pipes are European water heaters, it’s more efficient than keeping a tank full of water and constantly reheating it, instead it’s able to sense that you want hot water, and it will almost instantly heat up the water running through it. Plus it’s safer since it won’t blow a gasket and flood your apartment after 10-15 years.
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  45. Too bad the current hamper looks like it can hold like one sweater. 😂
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  46.  @terryv  I believe legally you must put in an elevator if your building is 6 floors or more… so 4 like this can get away with no elevator.
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  47. Or get one of those 2 in 1 toilets with a sink on top of the tank… which usually are only found in jails and prisons.
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  48. That area is Bay Ridge, and yes it’s popular, though usually you need to go a few more stops on the R train to really get into the popular area. Convenient for the N express train though.
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  49.  @richardschneider4775  in stations the third rail is always on the side away from the platform. (Contact shoes are on both sides of the train.)
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  50. I have a feeling that tiny 2nd bedroom was probably the living room.
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  51. Even older places had a shower/bath in the kitchen, but the toilet was down the hall and shared with the entire floor!
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  52. I guess that weird room off of the first kitchen could be an office?
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  53. Orange cabinets look like old Star Trek. That AC definitely can’t stay in the fire escape window, but at least there’s two other windows.
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  54. Technically it’s an SRO- Single Room Occupancy
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  55. The MTA was talking about switching the turnstiles from the spinning bar type to the kind they were using in San Francisco (it’s two tall panels that flip aside when you pay, you’d have to climb over that thing like Spider-Man to get in. (The idea was to add in one extra wide one for parents with strollers and wheelchair users to replace the auto-gate (those used to only work for disabled Metrocards, but now all Metrocards open it, and that stays open long enough for a bunch of people to run through.)
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  56. “Luxury” is all the amenities you’ll probably barely use. 😂
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  57. Yes, use the room with the water heater as a living room.
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  58. The Empire State Building annual stair climb.
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  59. The steam in the street comes from the ConEd plant on 14th and Avenue D, it’s like 1000 degrees and under high pressure. Buildings tie into the system from all the way downtown up to a certain block uptown (depends on which side of Central Park), for heating and weirdly cooling. When the pipes underground leak, they put up the big orange tubes to keep the steam from burning someone until they can patch the leak.
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  60. $10k a month, you may as well just buy the place and pay a mortgage at that point. It is like a little house though.
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  61. Cosmo Kramer finally put in levels?
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  62. In the old tenements (before housing reform) you could have families of 10 (or more) living in a single room thanks to stacked beds, and co-sleeping the children. (My grandmother was the first of 14 kids! (She out lived all of them except her youngest sister (all of their brothers died in WWII.))
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  63. I’d be careful, the city might make basement bedrooms without escape routes illegal after we got bad flooding from Hurricane Ida.
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  64. Those could also be used to stop skateboarders from playing on the rails.
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  65. Yeah,especially if the renter has kids.
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  66. Time changes from travel and jet lag are hard, especially going trans-pacific. Flew into Sydney, Australia at like 9am, had breakfast, hung out, finally cabbed it into the city to see if our hotel would at least hold onto our bags, thankfully we went in the off-season (August) to a small hotel, and the room was ready in 5 minutes. We beat out the longest anyone traveled to them from the US since most people come from the West Coast, (the ones we beat were from Chicago). Went out for an afternoon walk to get water and snacks for the room, got caught in the rain, made it back the the room at 3:30pm, decided to “nap” until dinner… we woke up, it was 2am! So much for dinner. Thankfully the hotel had a good free breakfast spread. Definitely recommend Australia, it’s a must to use the ferries from Circular Quay (pronounced key) to get around, good discount on the Taronga Zoo if you use the Ferry and the gondola thing (start up top at the gift shop, work your way down to the food court for lunch, then go the rest of the way down to the Ferry. It’s a good long day out, and you see lots of animals you really don’t see anywhere else.
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  67. Sadly it’s illegal to use those basements as bedrooms, there’s no exit to outside in a fire.
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  68.  @taylorlibby7642  I paid far less for an engagement ring (a set with a wedding band) but it wasn’t diamonds, it was Moissanite (my now wife and I both agreed the whole Diamond ring thing is BS. Plus her ring looks so much better as there’s more “fire” in it.)
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  69. Old knob and tube wiring, sometimes comes up here in old houses in the states, but it MUST be removed because it’s not grounded properly and there is a huge fire risk if things had degraded.
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  70. That first place was a 2 bedroom with a spare room… there were no windows in there, legally that’s not a bedroom.
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  71. While it was a spa resort hotel, the quiet and relaxing area reminds me of our first trip to meet our adopted daughter (second trip was the trip we got to take her home… leaving without her was awful, but that’s how the court system works over there, have to respect their process). Due to a major convention all the hotels in the city were booked solid, but our facilitator found a good place in the town up the woods/mountains called Starozagorski bani. It was really a good idea to be somewhere quiet and relaxing, and the food in the restaurant was amazing (all farm to table, homemade bread, really good free breakfast (anything other than basic coffee was extra though) with a deck to eat alfresco. Of course we were like smack in the middle of Bulgaria, the nearest international airport was 5 hours of driving away (there are trains, but the system is kind of old school Eastern bloc still.)
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  72. I thought that building out the back bedroom window looked familiar, it’s the oddly shaped Hotel Indigo you can see from the BQE! Not sure it’s worth that much if you have to live next to a hotel, but the L & G stop is literally right in front of the hotel.
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  73. This would be great if it wasn’t a walk up… also no laundry?
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  74. Took my daughter up the High Line before school started in September. That weird thing with the flag and bucket is supposed to slowly drip rain water onto a steel plate, erosion in super slow motion, but it’s too cold to work right now.
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  75. Do I want to know how they got that washer and dryer up into that tiny roof access spot?😂
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  76. Our apartment on the top floor has the same thing, the 4 apartments and two doctor’s offices under us give off enough heat, but the super/landlord can’t turn our heat off, so we have to live with the windows open in the winter just to not be boiling hot. It’s really inefficient.
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  77. That much rent and no bathtub?
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  78. The $10k unit did have laundry, in the coat closet by the front door (of all places.)
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  79. I’d be too sacred of breaking something and finding out it’s either irreplaceable or will cost a fortune to repair.
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  80. Paying for the location.
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  81. That room to outside could be an office, and the bathroom in it could be the “public” one for guests.
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  82. Price is because of the area.
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  83. Really cool, but wish it had less of a stoop out front since that’s not going to be fun carrying a stroller up and down, especially in winter when it gets icy.
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  84. That pull down thing in the closet is just another bar for hanging clothes, but you could use it for something you don’t wear often.
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  85. That ladder is for roof access… I’m surprised it’s out in the open like that, my grandmother’s house had it hiding in the back of the bedroom closet. (The lock is for safety so people don’t get inside by climbing up onto the roof).
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  86. That Amtrak line runs from Hudson Yards, under Hells Kitchen up to around 59th street, then it runs along the Hudson all the way up to Albany. Not all of the problem, but part of it: electric cars are heavier because of the battery pack, so a sedan might weigh as much as a big SUV. Hopefully future tech could reduce the battery’s weight. These garages were built for older cars, which weren’t exactly lightweight, but they weren’t as heavy as SUVs/EVs.
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  87. If only the last one was priced like the other building… $8000 must be because of the laundry and sink sprayer.
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  88. So many closets in that last bedroom, it’s like a walk-in-closet that has a bedroom inside.
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  89. I haven’t seen padded toilet seats in years! (My grandmother’s old house in Marine Park had one.)
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  90. Definitely a good place for people that have big dinner parties, you can cook a lot and clean all the dishes fast!
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  91. Unfortunately those aren’t egress windows in the basement… but there was a door in that room with the weird shelves for shrines… if that leads outside it can be a bedroom.
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  92. I always wonder if places with big windows like this have built in window treatments, sure it lets in plenty of light, but zero privacy, and sometimes you want to darken the room to sleep in in the morning.
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  93. I live in an old building (“pre-war”) we have one elevator, but there’s only a ramp in the back by the trash, and I don’t think it’s the correct 12 inches of run to 1 inch of rise for a wheelchair. Definitely something to talk to your realtor about… some buildings do have ramps, or outdoor lifts, but that’s for doctor’s offices… so if you don’t mind living on the first floor, you’d have access. (By my parents they built a 4 story building, with a ramp… but that’s only to access the elevator that only goes down to the basement medical place (which only has stairs outside). The rest of the building is a walk up.
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  94.  @snickersimsocute2438  he did a building in the Bronx a while ago, but it was a brand new luxury tower. Really not representative of the Bronx.
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  95. We have a friend that lives in Inwood, it’s not a bad area, that second laundry room… you can only get in from outside? That’s gotta be fun in a rainstorm.
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  96. That much rent and no in-unit laundry?
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  97. Thieves are now even going after delivery trucks stuck in traffic. It’s ridiculous!
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  98.  @maddscientist3170  and still pay U.S. taxes until you can obtain alternate citizenship (taxation without representation).
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  99. Despite you not being originally from NYC, your ability to rag on Jersey is on par with a native New Yorker. I’m wondering if they are slowly renovating the building so every unit will have laundry and the laundry room will be removed?
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  100.  @raineyj560  if it’s a side platform station standing by the wall also works.
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  101. They put the kitchen undercabinet lights under the wrong cabinets. And leaving the ceilings and walls bare concrete seems like an odd choice.
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  102. Really odd they put in a second full bath upstairs, but didn’t extend the loft for a second sleeping space option. (It would make more sense to sleep up there since that’s where the closet is.
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  103. 3:21 that platform barrier that rises up when the train arrives would be perfect for the NY subway with all the doors in different locations!
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  104. That’s a bass, a really nice Schecter bass.
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  105. Common space is really limited by the layout of the doors, why double swing out closet doors instead of something that slides or accordions?
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  106. That’s not really “4 baths” though, it’s 2 full baths and 2 1/4 baths (a toilet with no sink… eww.)
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  107.  @fredflintstone2234  yeah, there will never be a new rent controlled building in NYC, only old units and if you’re not a descendant of the previous tenant you aren’t lucking into one.
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  108. Double suite bedrooms (walk in/through closets to a bathroom)? Don’t see that very often.
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  109. MTA claims it’s not possible because different train models have their doors in different places, and to make them all the same would require replacing the entire fleet… the Metro in Copenhagen has full height platform screens and the trains are fully automated.
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  110. Manhattan Mall used to be cool, but then they shrank the number of floors down a ton… just went to the Queens Center Mall with my little one yesterday… she doesn’t care about the shopping, just about the all the food we bribe her with to not complain about how long shopping can take sometimes. (Aka, “okay sweetie, we’re checking out, and then we’ll get whatever you like.”) At least she’s tired by the time we get home.
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  111. “Billionaires row” south of Central Park has one listed for $250 million, it’s 3 entire floors and has “staff bedrooms.”
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  112. You can run laps around your apartment if you leave all the doors open! Honestly, you’re paying for the great subway access, you can get the 6 down on 68th Street, and the Q at the 3rd Avenue end of the street. I would ask to have that backyard cleaned up though.
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  113. It was weird because sometimes it smelled like a pizzeria, sometimes it smelled like a casino in Vegas (aka a giant ashtray), and sometimes it smelled like someone was smoking meat for a barbecue.
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  114. That much for no closets and no laundry? They’re banking on this being a roommates set up.
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  115. This looks like a new building… and I believe anything over a certain number of floors must have an elevator.
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  116. If your hotel is close to Newark Airport, that 3:30am alarm could have been someone catching one of the first flights out that day… but yeah, I’ve had an alarm go off at like midnight in a hotel and it was blasting the radio at full volume… not cool!
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  117. That giant bathroom definitely goes to 11, and it’s in a (quite expensive) rental!
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  118. In Sofia, Bulgaria we rented an apartment for 2 weeks, it had the (tiny) clothes washer under the kitchen counter (next to the tiny dishwasher) like you find it many places in Europe. To dry we had to pull a big rack out from the closet, unfold it and leave all the wet clothes in the corner next to the radiator (it was December, it was freezing most of the time we were there). Interestingly, all the heat was steam district heat from a main plant like they have in most of Manhattan below a certain point, but there was a backup hot water maker in the bath that we needed to use when the street lost it’s connection for a few hours (thankfully our unit came with this big instruction manual in several languages for how to work everything, including the backup system), the heat wasn’t connected to it though, so we had to hunker down with extra layers… and somebody (who was, and still kind of is very small) didn’t want to keep her socks on, so we got out some extra blankets.
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  119. That dumbwaiter in the big closet could have been used to move clean laundry upstairs.
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  120. Maybe get a rolling kitchen cart to expand the usable counter space, you can always roll it into the kitchen when you’re not using it.
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  121. If it wasn’t this tower it was one nearby, but part of the deal they made to build this was to install an elevator on the Court Square-53rd Street E train platform to Manhattan… the MTA is working on the elevator for the other side.
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  122. The loft is the place to hide your mother-in-law when she visits.
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  123. Paying that much just to be like the Hulk “SO MANY STAIRS!” No thanks.
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  124. Odd layout with back to back bathrooms, two of the bedrooms are off of the hallway with a kitchen in it.
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  125. This place will be great when they finally extend the Q train uptown in about 20 years.
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  126. Really interesting, the upstairs is almost like two wings, you can have the kid’s wing with the two bedrooms and bathroom, and then the parents can take the back suite.
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  127. No basement? Looks like there is one, unless that’s a rental unit?
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  128. I believe that is an egress hatch (looked like there was a latch on it from the inside.
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  129. Bail reform makes it like a GTA game, got busted? No worries just get out a few hours later to keep terrorizing the city. Edit: the Port Authority actually controls the entire World Trade Center, not just the mall, so while their cops liaise with the NYPD for problems on the street, inside all of the buildings it’s their jurisdiction. Same at the airports.
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  130. Cold sponge bath with clean snow. 🤷‍♂️
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  131. Those back to back radiators in the shared space tell me that there was once a wall between the living room and kitchen prior to a renovation. (Relocating radiators isn’t the easiest thing, so many places just leave them as is (as long as they aren’t in the middle of the room.))
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  132. I’d say Amazon prime is worth it since it gives you free shipping… shipping fees add up quickly. Also Amazon subscribe and save is great if you have things you use all the time (especially for parents, get discounts on diapers, wipes, baby food, etc.)
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  133. They need to have a set of double gates,that work like an airlock, the first gate has to close before the second one opens. In both directions. The kids that drove the train in Jamaica Yard (which is actually in the south end of Flushing-Meadows Park), the cops did catch one of them so far.
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  134. Or Saruman yelling spells!
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  135. That wall with the pocket doors might be structural (the studs are doubled up and turned 90 degrees, so the pocket door slides between them)… if you really wanted to remove it, check with an engineer or a contractor first.
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  136. Wait, was the little trike talking when it goes in reverse?
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  137. Brand new, but the apartment lower levels are already being torn out… flood damage?
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  138.  @vincentgoupil180  yeah, that decorative wall looks like a ladder.
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  139. The Super must’ve gotten a discount on really tiny closet doors.
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  140. Do I know too much when I immediately recognized that as a ship’s compass? (It’s on a gimbal so it always stays level no matter how rough the sea gets.)
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  141. Really nice, but a hike to the subway, which might hinder finding a renter for the lower levels. (It does look like you could configure this so the basement only can be accessed by the owner’s unit (just lock that door, and move the tenant laundry up to the unit somehow.)
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  142. LAX is confusing, we wound up having to get out and walk along the road to switch terminals once (Qantas to Virgin America), though I think they’re finally working on connections between the terminals. Not too long ago, there was really not much connecting aside from busses that ran between the planes, and I had to change busses in the middle of nowhere next to really loud regional turboprop planes (I was going from a very delayed American flight to an Alaska Airlines flight (which had left by the time I got there… I had an hour long connecting time to do this… on paper… thanks American, Alaska was able to switch me to a later, but stuffed to the gills, flight) That little bus area was demolished to expand the international terminal.)
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  143. That’s kind of a long hike to the subway (the 1 train), so you’re paying for the views of the Henry Hudson bridge, and the rivers here.
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  144. Those orange tubes just cover leaks in the steam system… it’s only steam… it smells odd because it’s super hot so it’s kind of cooking the air around it.
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  145. That much in rent for the first would be better served paying down the cost of the 2nd one (with a rental income from the garden apartment supplementing your giant salary that you can afford $4.5 million!
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  146. Our entire apartment’s rent in Forest Hills is less than double that, and we have 2 bedrooms, a decent kitchen and a private full bath! No way.
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  147. Well it’s a crazy price, but it’s because of the location. There’s apparently a $25 million place on 11th ave and 23rd Street that has 5 beds, 5.5 baths, and a massive outdoor space that’s almost the size of the inside of the apartment! Gotta win the lottery to buy that one.
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  148.  @hewitc  I think his name is still on the building, but Cash just couldn’t say it (or didn’t want to) That street is called United Nations Plaza.
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  149. Closets that narrow make me wonder what’s taking up the rest of the wall space there… 🤔
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  150. I think a walk up past the 2nd floor with 1 kid is bad, with 2 (since you announced you’re expecting) it’s much worse.
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  151. I mean both the Mayor and the Governor are swearing up and down we won’t have another lockdown… and hopefully we will continue to go back to normal soon (aka, masking on the subway will end… about half the people I’m seeing on the trains aren’t bothering with the masks anyway, and there’s zero enforcement as far as I can tell.)
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  152. That slanted wall (next to the door to the private roof) makes laying out the living room a challenge, unless you can find a triangular entertainment center that matches the angle.
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  153. The service hallways in these buildings always look like that set in the 2nd Matrix film with all the doors that let you skip to other places.
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  154. There’s a rule against bringing toy weapons on airplanes, so that camera blower could have looked like a toy bomb.
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  155.  @ZachsCooking  the mayor keeps telling them to bring their workers back because it leaves midtown mostly dead and that’s killing all the places that support office workers like lunch places, restaurants for workers that get dinner before heading home, etc
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  156. Last time I passed that cube it was all blocked off with barriers… I’m guessing years of people messing with it, plus rain, snow, ice, just destroyed the bearing that is somewhere under it that let it spin… guess it was cheaper to add that cradle than dismantle it and replace the bearing. Shame, it was fun to spin it.
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  157. LG actually stopped making cellphones a year or so ago.
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  158. Teeny sinks in the baths, and no guest bathroom in the common space… those speakers might be for music, like a built in Sonos or something.
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  159. It’s not “like a swamp” it WAS a swamp that some fool filled in and tried to build on… it didn’t work but these residents have to suffer the consequences.
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  160. $6 for hotel water… try $8 for a smaller bottle of Voss in Boston, yeah, we went out and bought water instead. Meanwhile in London, UK they had free bottled water, AND sparkling water, kept cold in a mini fridge under the TV, and they happily refilled it every day.
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  161. Bay Ridge is south of 60th Street-ish. That tiny house on the big set back… I’m pretty sure the owners just rent the whole thing out, but it’s like a loft inside.
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  162. Prospect Park was designed by the same landscape architects as Central Park. That box in the closet next to the bathroom is a tankless water heater, it’s able to give instant hot water, which is nice on a cold day.
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  163. All those vending machines and even with the advent of tap to pay, it’s gotta be an army of people collecting the money and restocking the machines.
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  164.  @notbill08  exactly it’s like Europe, but it’s weird seeing that in NYC
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  165. Old school New York, I’m pretty sure this is converted townhouse and carriage house, but it’s probably been renovated so many times over the years that there’s not much original stuff left.
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  166. For that much, tack on a 3rd bedroom and put a stand up shower in the 2nd bathroom. I don’t drive so no need for the parking spot. Storage unit could be useful, bit of hike to the train, but this looks like a brand new building, so it should be free of any problems.
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  167. I want that long roller slide here, it would be fun to go on with my daughter! There’s a conveyor belt sushi place in the food court at the Queens Center Mall.
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  168. Bad guys don’t carry weapons in bags… they keep them in pockets, or their waistband. So until the cops can somehow convince the Federal courts to make Stop and Frisk okay again, this is just lipstick on a pig.
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  169. I’m not sure about the layout, the original columns and beams are cool, but they’re also in the middle of the hallway? Would have been nicer if they were integrated into a wall.
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  170. Would be great… if it wasn’t a walk up. As you know Cash, kids and their stuff is a pain to carry up and down stairs.
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  171. The blocked windows are a sign that the building next door was replaced by something taller at some point.
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  172. When I first met my wife she was in a studio with a “kitchen” that had that exact setup of mini-fridge, microwave and toaster oven.The sink was an old bathroom vanity. She did have a decent sized bathroom, and a closet.
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  173. Really nice… but 1 more bedroom and it would be better.
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  174. Really nice layout for the space, odd to have doors between the main hallway and the bathroom hallway. Where are all the people? They seemed to be between 52nd and 42nd between 5th and 6th, at least on Friday when I took my daughter to see the tree and the Christmas market in Bryant Park.
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  175. Second one had a hidden toilet, and the last one had a hidden sink… why all the walls?
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  176. That price is totally because of the roof and the neighborhood, without in unit laundry, that’s a four floor workout at least once a week.
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  177. Faster than traffic, but probably still not faster than bike messengers on their non-electric bikes. Those guys just fly around the city.
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  178. I’m used to sleeping in total darkness, so I couldn’t even figure out how to put blackout drapes in that top bedroom, looks like whomever is up there will need good quality eye masks.
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  179. Violet is learning about real estate.
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  180. That old studio that’s now the roof deck… back when it was a studio it looks like you basically had to live outside most of the time if you wanted any space. That’s great on nice days… not so great when it rains… or during winter.
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  181. That first one got flooded, the waterline was still visible in the basement.
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  182. Blinds-to-Go will love this place.
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  183. You can always get a big rolling kitchen cart.
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  184. That building with the smoke stack was the original power station for the IRT subway going up the west side… I think.
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  185. $200 more and no laundry? No thanks. Edit: The kitchens are the same size, but in the balcony unit it’s not an open layout with the breakfast bar, so the extra wall makes it feel smaller.
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  186. Rent to own is good… if the contract is written fairly for the buyer… otherwise you’re paying that rent for a loooooong time… I was curious what space those stairs to the roof in the penthouse ate up compared to the 4th floor unit… guessing it was that laundry room and that penthouse unit probably has the laundry in a bathroom?
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  187. That balcony door needs to open inwards, otherwise you can’t have much out there since the door would swing into it all the time.
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  188. “Beverage” coolers seem to be the new thing to tack extra onto the rent, and they’re wedging them into anyplace they can! Last place was interesting, but the staircase up pretty much ate all the living room.
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  189. 2 kitchen sinks but no dishwasher? I have seen houses where the island has a smaller utility sink for like washing veggies before you chop them, then a large sink along the wall for cleaning dishes, or filling up a pot with water for cooking pasta.
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  190. That home office space could also fit a small pull out couch or futon for guests.
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  191. Guess you couldn’t say it, but that’s Trump World Tower (there is nothing that tall in that part of town), and in my head I’m thinking this was Derek Jeter’s apartment 😂
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  192. That top level has been mostly empty forever… used to visit the in-laws using NJT.
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  193. I mean, there was talk of the city going into a downward spiral with no end in the 1970s, and we came back anyway.
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  194. The only real Blockbuster Video left is in Bend, Oregon (there were 2 others in Alaska, but they closed down.)
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  195. Native New Yorker here: I’m with what Mick Jagger said at the concert for 9/11, “You don’t f—k with New York.” I take the subway every day… I took it home Tuesday.. had to detour from the 6 to the 7 at Grand Central to the E at Roosevelt Avenue to get back to Forest Hills because all the other lettered lines were stuck or rerouted, but people were on the trains.
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  196. It’s awesome, but if I had that kind of money, I’d be looking for a house just to get that little bit extra privacy.
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  197. 2:45, that’s the ventilation tower for the Holland Tunnel.
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  198. The only thing I can think of for that skylight in the basement is it’s the egress window so it technically can be a bedroom, but how do you get up to it in an emergency?
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  199. That last one with the weird door to outside, but 10 feet below the stree, what even is the point of that?
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  200. That office area, an odd use of the space. This is near my daughter’s pediatrician, but it’s only a 1 bedroom.
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  201. Those high up outlets could also be used for a wall mounted TV, hides the wires… but you’d probably need an antenna since I didn’t see any cable hookup.
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  202.  @eattherich9215  the 2nd avenue subway has changed the value (real or imagined) of the areas around it’s stations… I can only imagine what will change as it’s extended uptown and then all the way downtown to the financial district… not that I see big Wall Street guys buying places like this and taking the subway to work. 😂
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  203. This is all being done as a political stunt, and it’s human trafficking. Texas should be sending NYC sacks of full of money on those busses to help defer the costs they are dumping on us. Or the Federal government should step in to stop this.
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  204. There was a K-Mart in Brooklyn, but K-Mart is in the graveyard of big stores. (It’s now a Kohls, south end of Bay Parkway.) Edit: that big space behind Industry City is the marine terminal, it’s used by a few things, including the city, and I believe the MTA might get delivery of new subway cars in there (or nearby).
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  205. It’s close to Pratt Institute but exactly priced for students.
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  206. I’d put the 1 bedroom’s bathroom in the 2 bedroom (odd that it has a new kitchen, but an older bathroom), otherwise they are pretty huge apartments for the area.
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  207. Those valves in the closet are probably the water shutoffs for the bathrooom… or at least the washing machine.
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  208. Kings Highway over there is great for shopping, used to go there with my family when I was a kid, though that was a long time ago, but Fabco Shoes is still there!
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  209. Probably not a roof deck, but it’s facing away from the street, so it will be a quiet apartment… unlike mine. (I’m on Queens Blvd, and I’m 6 floors up… but for some reason the street sounds like it’s right next to the windows (our bedroom is in the back, but our daughters room is not, we have to run white noise machines all night so she can sleep without something waking her up (and that doesn’t always work.))
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  210. 6:59 I like to joke that building is Wayne Enterprises and Batman is hanging out up there every night.
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  211. Had a former co-worker who lived on Roosevelt Island, technically it is considered “Manhattan” even though the only bridge to it is in Queens (there used to be an elevator on the 59th Street Bridge that could move people and cars.)
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  212. Be great if you acknowledged if the buildings were walk up or have elevators, would help those who are unable to handle stairs, or don’t want to carry their kids stroller up and down more than 1 floor.
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  213. 8th and 46th, I think this is a new-ish building, but I can’t remember what used to be there.
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  214. 2nd unit is slightly bigger, and updated, no brainer. Our current place they showed us this unit, and one 2 floors down that had an older kitchen and bath, but they wanted the same price for both… which I thought was ridiculous. (Same size as it’s the same unit number (all the floors above the ground floor are the same here.)
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  215. My wife used to live up there, Le Mondale is a cool place.. Just avoid weekend brunch, it’s stupid popular and you’ll be waiting for a long time for a table. That extra high bar in the bedroom closet could be used for out of season storage (winter stuff in summer) as long as you have a ladder.
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  216. The first Ray’s pizza closed a million years ago, even the copycat second Rays is gone… now it’s just clones galore. Really like how the listing gives the layout for both as is, and if you wanted to put in another bedroom.
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  217. This expensive with that many floors with the barbecue on the top, it needs an elevator. (Although where is a great question.)
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  218. $300k a year… ouch. The ONLY thing it’s missing. Elevator. (Yes, some townhouses do have elevators.)
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  219. Yes, also a New Yorker and I’m freezing here in the mornings lately… we went from early fall to early winter fast.
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  220. Prior to the bridges, the East river had tons of ferries and other boat traffic. When it got cold enough the river froze solid and people walked across.
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  221. Friend in college worked at Applebees. She recommended we eat ANYWHERE else.😂
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  222. You see curved ceilings like that everyday if you take the subway.
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  223.  @653j521  the flat spots are the beams, the curves I’m not sure if they add any structure.
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  224. Except all of the flatscreen TVs, this looks straight out of the 1980s! Definitely a renovation is in order unless the owner is a huge fan of this style.
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  225. That view might disappear if they ever build Hudson Yards West.
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  226. That $2.3 million place was nice, but yeah, floor to ceiling windows make me feel like I’m on display for the neighbors… definitely be using the shades for privacy.
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  227. The issue with AirPods: the battery life isn’t great since the batteries are tiny (they are inside the little stick part that points down), and they are Lithium-Ion, which wears out as you use them and recharge them. Unfortunately they aren’t replaceable either.
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  228. I used to pass this area on the D train all the time. That building used to have a hardware store on the ground floor, that’s why it was advertising wallpaper and Dutch Boy paint all the way up to the roof, to attract people riding on the train.
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  229.  @availanila  a window or a door to the outside.
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  230. Bad traffic from 3-7? Sounds like New York! (Especially Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills, everyone is heading east to one of the highways (there’s a bunch right when you cross into Kew Gardens and that entire interchange is being rebuilt to be less confusing… but the mess it’s created for the last few years has made things worse.)
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  231. That thing next to the park is probably an emergency exit from the subway. Usually it’s just a flat plate in the ground, but I think they couldn’t do that there, so they put in a little hut. You can’t see much because it’s stairs all the way down.
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  232. That’s a really cool bus, most travel vlogs will just show the trains, Shinkansen and the maglev. (Those last two might be expensive?)
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  233. Sink sprayer, on a tiny cocktail bar sink… well it certainly maximizes counter space.
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  234. Not a private yard if the building’s garbage cans are out there!
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  235. Nice, but not $9k/mo nice (for that much it better come with a winning lottery ticket so I can afford it.)
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  236. X-men reference! Really awesome, but I’d be worried about that shower with a view if they ever built something tall enough across the street!
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  237. Price is definitely for the location only on this. It’s huge, but it badly needs to be renovated.
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  238. Airports have busy times and lighter times, if you were willing to stay in Miami a few more hours and left around noon that line probably would have been shorter. Yeah, getting out of an airport in New York can be a pain, but that’s really only if you wait for a yellow cab (flew back from Dublin landed at about 3pm and the line for taxis at Terminal 4 was massive. Was almost tempted to use the air train… but it was cold and snowy and we didn’t feel like dragging luggage from the closet stop on the E to our apartment.
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  239. I’m sorry, flip the bathrooms, it makes no sense to have the full bath all the way at the far end of the unit, and the half bath right next to the bedrooms, especially if you have kids.
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  240. That area is either Kensington (west of of Coney Island Avenue to McDonald Avenue (where you can get the F train) or Flatbush on the East Side, where you can catch the Q train. If you go up a block and cross Beverley Road that is technically Prospect Park South.
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  241. Lidl? When we rented an apartment in Sofia, Bulgaria for our adoption trip we shopped at a Lidl… really great selection and decent prices. Guess they followed Aldi. (Totally recommend visiting Bulgaria, it’s a beautiful country, and the food is the best (basically it’s all farm to table.) They haven’t switched to the Euro yet, so it’s still pretty cheap (we stayed in a huge two bed, two bath with a full kitchen and a clothes washer (there was a rack for air drying, which is okay) for two weeks for like $850!))
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  242. It looks like Batman lives there. It’s like Wayne Tower.
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  243. Jersey should ask why Trenton isn’t funding NJ Transit. NJ Transit will be forced to hike fares and lower service sometime next year because they can’t run the system on ticket fares alone! But no, complain about congestion pricing instead, even though only 5% of NJ commuters actually DRIVE into the city!
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  244. Problem with enclosing that middle space, now half the apartment has no windows.
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  245. Ouch… for the price… cool idea for a breakfast bar.
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  246. New Jersey complains about this, but it’s a FACT that only 5% of New Jersey commuters actually drive into Manhattan! New Jersey Transit doesn’t get funding from Trenton and it’s about to go bankrupt soon (because they don’t make enough money from fares), causing fare hikes and service cuts. Maybe Gov Murphy can work on that instead?
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  247. Prospect Ave, you might be better walking the extra couple of blocks north to 9th Street for the F to get to Broadway-Lafayette/Bleeker Street.
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