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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

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2. If I had to guess, it's the the flight from Manhattan.

Reply to yeoman6987 (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 12:08 PM

Mar 2014

The rents here are approaching crisis level - even very well off financial and professional types are realizing that you can get twice the apartment for half the price across the East River, even the super-fancy luxury stuff; I've seen more than a few ads for high-end buildings in Long Island City and Downtown Brooklyn over the last couple years. I'll probably end up out there after this lease, $1550 for a studio is utterly laughable and it's only going to get worse.

It might also explain why the service and reliability is on the downswing; it's not as bad as the dark days before Gunn, but it's been slipping lately. My line's in the middle of a nine-day downage now, after a broken rail just last week.

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