Pelham Parkway is also way above the other two with other transportation links,especially the rapid transit BX12 and busses to Westchester.Ĭultural diversity: Most,Pelham Parkway.Middle,Parkchester,Least,Riverdale.Ĭleanliness: Most,Riverdale.Mid,Parkchester.Least,Pelham Parkway.Parkchester is a complex,not a neighborhood.It's 2nd rank in the cleanliness scale drops to 3rd once you exit the complex.It's hard to compare a complex with a neighborhood. Parkchester and Pelham Parkway are about the same time to midtown but I gave the edge to Pelham Parkway because it has an East side(5) and a West side(2) subway and super frequent express bus service because the Pelham Parkway to mid town express bus is also the Bronx Zoo express bus.Much( most) of Riverdale is either a long walk or requires a bus to the 1 train or metro north which is more expensive and less frequent. Most,Pelham Parkway.Middle,Parkchester.Least,Riverdale.Ĭommute to Manhattan: Easiest,Pelham Parkway.Middle,Parkchester. Nearby ethnic and mainstream grocery stores,restaurants and other shops: a 1 br Parkchester apartment.They all look pretty much the same.Can't get into whether the "less desirable" parts of Riverdale are worse than the "more desirable" areas of Pelham Parkway kind of thing.You have to fine tune. No sense jumping from frying pan A to frying pan B.ĩ00 to 1000 rent:Possible in all three areas.Differences are that in Riverdale your selection will be small and confined to what are thought of as the less desirable areas.In Pelham Parkway you will find a wider array of apartments,buildings and areas of the neighborhood.In Parkchester you will get 1 thing with slight variation. I live simply and love it, so I don't need a lot of material things, and I am not impressed by the bright lights, if you get my drift.Īm I dreaming? Are there other areas I should check out? When I was living in NYC (Harlem) this was fine. So, as you can guess, I don't make a lot of money-roughly $48,000 to $50,000 a year. I am an African-American woman, a poet/writer/performing artist who teaches for a living, usually English (Composition, Reading, Literature, Poetry, Humanities, etc.) at the college level, and also in the nonprofit sector. ![]() Here is my wish list: a rent of $900 to $1000 a month, relatively safe and quiet, clean, parks nearby, ethnic and mainstream grocery stores and restaurants nearby, cultural diversity, and an easy commute to Manhattan (for work, poetry readings, open mics, theatre, etc.). I want to know the good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly. That's how I got myself into this situation I am in now: believing the hype. I guess my biggest question is how can these beautiful areas of the Bronx have such relatively cheap rents? I keep thinking, "Come on, what's the catch?" Please, no neighborhood propaganda. Hey, folks, can you help me sort out the pros and cons? I've got some heavy decisions to make.
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