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It doesn’t get more specific than that do you want intersections lmao
Yeah, I mean UES is huge , eg between XX street and YY street for eg. Of course if it’s a smaller area like Tribeca it makes sense. But point taken, I’ve removed that lol
Tribeca. To be more specific per your instructions, Murray and W Broadway.
Can't be that posh if there's a Flashdancers at that exact intersection...
Poshest part of Tribeca is hands down Hubert / Laight / Debrosses / Watts, between the water and Hudson.
Other areas I'd characterize as posh:
UES: 5th / Madison / Park below ~90th
Leafy less trafficked parts of West Village
Noho: Bond St
Battery Park City by the water
West Village is probably the one place in NYC I genuinely love. So nice & beautiful there.
UES close to the park, Greenwich Village north of Washington Sq Park, Tribeca. UWS also has a lot of the younger wealthy families because several of their elementary/middle schools are excellent
Wealthy people are fairly spread out location-wise these days in NY but tend to congregate at the nicer private schools, especially high school or beyond with how HS admissions work in the city
Very helpful thank you. How do HS admissions work?
They give you a big book of like 500 skls at your bar mitzvah and you have to lock the fuck in and start applying. At least that’s how it worked for me.
Elementary and middle school are zoned like you'd normally expect. HS admissions is a bit like the residency match process in med school, with a nice random lottery variable thrown in
Kids get grouped on academics and then within that group, assigned a random lottery number and have to rank their top programs, and then the match algorithm is a complicated process based on their academics and then random lottery position. More stressful than it needs to be.
This link explains it in fairly plain English if you're interested https://medium.com/algorithms-in-the-wild/decoding-the-nyc-school-admission-lottery-numbers-bae7148e337d
Pretty common for wealthier parents to send their kids to a strong public elementary school and then switch to private sometime around middle school
This is complicated, and I think some of these suggestions are bad because of the "raise a family" part, which I'm reading as "boring" (please tell me if I'm reading that incorrectly with a reply instead of MS) Outside of a few tiny areas, anywhere in Manhattan south of ~116 on the west side, ~100 on the east side and west of avenue C should be 'fine' from a safety standpoint, and I say this as someone who came from the suburbs, and who's parents said "here's a monthly train pass and enough money for a metrocard" at 14, back in the Giuliani days. Similarly, most of inner brooklyn and queens can be as nice, or even better. The Bronx is one of the poorest counties in the US, but has a few phenomenal neighborhoods thrown in too. Do your research if you're going up that way though.
Presuming that we're sticking to Manhattan, UES and UWS should work. UES is more old money, UWS more bohemian and artsy. Moving south, I'd avoid HK, Chelsea or the Village on the west side, and anything on the east. Nothing wrong with those neighborhoods, it's the "raise a family" (i.e. 'kid friendly stuff to do') part. You don't want to take kids to my best beer bar recommendation on Bleeker St.
Moving further south, I don't know if non-locals understand how empty most of Tribeca and FiDi feel after hours. Battery Park City is an odd bit of not-quite suburbia that could work.
I'm trying to keep this short(-ish) to avoid the "TL,DR" risk, but I don't think you understand the magnitude of the question. The city is literally 8+ million. Only a handful of US states have larger populations. What specifics are you looking for? How old are the kids? If you're willing to pay and not gamble on getting them into something like Sty or Bronx Sci or whatever you barely need to worry about schools. For context, I live right outside Manhattan, and can see half the city from my windows. (angle issues, and picking for sun) I need to walk my little dog about four times a day. Unless I expect us to be gone for longer than about half an hour I don't even bother to lock my door.
Upper east side
Who even says poshest?
This is actually a pretty straightforward question: the wealthy and family friendly neighborhoods in NYC are the UWS, UES, and brownstone Brooklyn neighborhoods (BH, CH, CG, and PS).
These area are where probably 70% of the good private schools are (other locations being riverdale and maybe a few in midtown / downtown).
This isn’t to say there are no wealthy families living in say soho or Williamsburg or rivderdale but the three areas above capture some very significant portion of well off families in NYC.
The flat next to the British Consulate.
Tier 1: UpperEast, Tribecca, Brooklyn Heights
Tier 2: West Village, UpperWest, Cobble Hill, Dumbo, WIlliamsburg.
Tier III: Soho, Carrol Gardens, Park Slope, Village
“Tribecca” cringe
My kids opthomorist is there as well as their swim classes. If they end up playing in the playground there is usually a celeb there. Chloe Sevigny was playing with my older boy last time I was with them...so yeah pretty posh. This is where you go when you have LOTS of money and a family or want privacy.
Brooklyn Heights that high?
Its the only place in BK that hits Manhattan PSF for sales.
I'll also add the 4-6 blocks around Gramercy Park, but it is a bit of a walled garden. Gets exponentially less "posh" in certain directions
Poshest? West Village or Tribeca, but I’d prefer East Village which is less posh more grunge. Rich places overlooking Central Park are also posh/baller.
you should see the price drops before LL 97 hits. I've seen classic 7/8 go for 2.5mm recently
with park views and 5th ave address
I used to live in Yorkville and saw a lot of young ish families. I moved down to the west village and basically never see children for what it’s worth.
Everytime I bring up the idea of potentially moving to Manhattan with friends / coworkers, the Yorkville / UES neighborhood is consistently brought up. Definitely seems like a great place to live and it's not too far from the posh parts of UES closer to Central Park.
Would caution that while Yorkville is now served by the Q you’re at its mercy and many affordable buildings are 10+ minutes from 86th st or 79th. It was a brutal walk to the subway the two winters I lived over there. I would place a large premium on my current 2-5 minutes walk to multiple subway lines. But downtown is naturally more transit dense with multiple junctions closer together. Just one factor. If you have a company driver (like my boss who lives on 5th Ave) it’s not a big deal getting down from the UES. Yorkville is just particularly isolated.
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